{"id":384598,"date":"2026-03-14T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/384598\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:39:11","slug":"digging-in-for-the-long-haul-breffni-hopes-to-be-first-to-break-ground-on-the-metrolink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/384598\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging in for the long haul: Breffni hopes to be first to break ground on the MetroLink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The father and son team behind the north Dublin civil engineering firm tell their story\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rory Flynn, managing director of the Breffni Group. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/nn Breffni Group 10.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rory Flynn, managing director of the Breffni Group. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Out in the rural heart of north county Dublin, nestled discreetly among the cabbage fields and solar farms, under the roaring jets of planes, there\u2019s a 160-metre long \u201cDart line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It may be the shortest train line in the country. But it\u2019s here \u2013 on a huge site in Killsallaghan, hidden from the farmland behind expertly crafted landscaped banks \u2013 that Breffni Group managing director Rory Flynn prepares his staff and machines for the big impact he hopes they can have on Ireland\u2019s current and future railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father and son team behind the north Dublin civil engineering firm tell their story Rory Flynn, managing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,26,18,48121,33201,3847,17640,19,17,4852],"class_list":{"0":"post-384598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dublin-airport","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-esb-group","12":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","13":"tag-housing","14":"tag-iarnrod-eireann-irish-rail","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-metrolink"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116226868163740638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}