Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails

Irish Rail has quietly written off €50 million on a troubled train traffic management system that now appears headed for the same graveyard as many ambitious public-sector IT projects before it. The State-owned rail operator no longer has confidence the new Traffic Management System can be rolled out across Ireland’s rail network as originally planned, according to reporting by The Irish Times. The system was supposed to modernize how train movements are managed nationwide as part of the wider N