Iarnród Éireann has confirmed plans to install a temporary railway platform in Adare for the Ryder Cup. 

The move aims to improve sustainability and ease traffic congestion for the thousands of fans expected to attend the 2027 golf tournament. 

Local councillor Bridie Collins says the development came as a major surprise during this week’s full council meeting. 

Speaking to Live95, she said the platform will be of huge economic benefit to Adare during the Ryder Cup.

“This was obviously something that we were looking for in the village of Adare and other places along the whole railway line because we’re now talking about sustainability and the whole carpentry and the neutralisation of the event itself is very, very important, and this would go a long way towards doing that”.

However, the Fianna Fáil councillor says there will be limitations.

“There’s only going to be maybe three to four hundred people being able to deliver it by one railway train drop at any one particular time, plus there are constraints in times of getting people to the event because most people must be at the event before the first tee-off time, which is somewhere in and around maybe 7, 7.30 in the morning, so which would mean that the volume of traffic will be through the railway line will be very early”.

She is calling for the train platform to become a permanent fixture after the Ryder Cup is finished. 

“We will be fighting that fight from now until after the Ryder Cup, to keep that as a legacy project. Because if you’re putting in the infrastructure and you do have the physical carriages and there is capacity to do it, it goes with national policy in terms of sustainability”.

She finished: “It’s a no-brainer to me”.

Thursday, 29 January 2026 12:41/By Live95 News Team