Regional communities are being “sucked into Dublin” causing misery for families, Labour leader Brendan Howlin said at the launch of a plan to create more regional jobs and cut congestion. You have to have a strategy and, bluntly, Dublin is bursting at the seams. We cannot have a situation where it just sucks in everything and the rest of the country is expected to commute into it,” Mr Howlin told reporters at an event in Drogheda. Flanked by the party’s candidates in constituencies along the commuter belt around Dublin - Ged Nash in Louth, Annie Hoey in Meath West and Duncan Smith in Fingal - Mr Howlin said that the plan was designed “to improve the quality of life in commuter towns across Leinster. There were more than 10,000 people leaving Drogheda, a town of 40,000 people, every morning to work in Dublin city centre in IDA-linked foreign direct investment companies, he said.

Source: The Irish Times January 17, 2020 16:41 UTC