WELL, it’s clearly full steam ahead into general election season now with Budget 2025 out of the way. And I tell you what, they’ve clearly got the good stuff down in Mary Street if a recent video from the Green Party’s Brian Leddin is anything to go by.
There he was, the enthusiastic trainspotter, grinning like a boy scout after getting the last marshmallow at the jamboree campfire, professing his undying love for Limerick Junction. LIMERICK JUNCTION! A transport hub so monotonos that its rightful owners, Tipperary, wouldn’t even put their own name on it.
I was almost going to call Tulsa after watching Brian’s distressing proclamation of enduring affection for that miserable railroad depot in the backwaters of Tipp.
Surely sleepy Eamon and his snoozy ways are starting to rub off on the Limerick heartthrob?
I tell you one thing, I’ll be having a mass said for young Leddin. He has clearly got himself in with a bad lot up in Dublin and needs a good strong stationmaster to put some sense on him.
Did you ever hear the like of it? A Green Party TD in love with what one person likened to “a pointless detour to everywhere”.
“They arrive. They get out of the train. They cross the platform. They get onto other trains, and then they disappear again. I think that’s quite fascinating,” Leddin confessed with a big silly grin on him and the rain pelting him sideways like he was auditioning for a Richard Curtis film.
The man was pure beside himself with excitement as he spotted the direct train to Dublin.
“Every time I come here it’s always a magical experience,” he toots as he fumbles around looking for his keys.
I don’t know if he was drinking tubes of cider on the way up to the Dáil and decided to get off for an auld ramble and go looking for fairy forts or what, but his fetish for slow trains and the stations that welcome them is downright nefarious.
“A masterpiece,” he called it, and him dripping down to his shoes and hopping about like a spring lamb.
Is he in a cult? Was this some warped brainwashing exercise to get the voters in Limerick City to abandon their vehicles and get the train out to him in Limerick Junction for a kissing scene in the rain?
Are we all supposed to be in a train cult now, Brian? Only I’m so busy crawling the ceilings at Council meetings, I’m not sure I have time for the aul trains.
I love Colbert Station, there I said it. God, I feel dirty now!
