The Irish Times

Mr Brennan was speaking at a ceremony in Dundrum, Co Dublin, last night when the cable-stayed Luas bridge was formally named the William Dargan Bridge after a man regarded as Ireland's greatest railway engineer. William Dargan, who was born near Killeshin, Co Laois, in 1799, was the engineer on Ireland's first railway from Dublin to Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) in 1833. He was also the engineer for the old Harcourt Street line, which the Sandyford Luas follows for much of its journey, and he designed many of its station houses.