For six weeks in February and March 2024, as guests sat down to breakfast at The Gresham Hotel on O’Connell Street, civil servants from An Bord Pleanála were filing in and out of the Dublin institution carrying reams of files on the €9.5 billion MetroLink project.  The hotel, a three-minute walk from the board’s office on Marlborough Street, is a regular host of lengthy public oral hearings on major public projects that attract significant scrutiny from a large number of citizens, civil society groups and private organisations. In this case, Transport Infrastructure Ireland’s (TII) application for a railway order for…

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