The Northern Link debate, 1992

Again, one of those occasions when I was looking for something else ... and I came across a Seanad discussion about the provision of a Northern Link to the Kilcullen Bypass (M9) then in development.

Senator John Dardis's outlining of the situation was masterful, but fell on deaf ears in a standard Ministerial buck-passing of it being 'inappropriate' for him to intervene.

Is it only that short time ago that Kilcullen was 'being consigned to becoming a rural open sewer with no future'?

How times change. And how badly we now need that link road, for which we did indeed run a Dail candidate.

— Brian Byrne.