NORTHERN ASSEMBLY MINISTER BACKS GALWAY DERRY RAIL LINK

Date Published: 18-May-2009

The development of a rail-link between Galway and Derry is being promoted by Northern Assembly Minister Conor Murphy of Sinn Fein.The North’s Regional Development Minister was speaking ahead of a visit to Galway on Thursday when he will be taking to the campaign trail with the party’s North West European candidate, Cllr. Pádraig MacLochlainn.Minister Murphy says even when the western rail corridor is complete, there still won't be a complete all-Ireland railway loop because there is no link betweenGalway and Derry.