Professor John Doyle:

Imagine having a local high-speed train link from the Letterkenny campus of the Atlantic Technological University, ATU, to Derry city, taking in the Magee Campus of Ulster University and allowing students and staff of both universities to move at lunchtime from one class to another. How much of a vibrant connection could that create? Taking up Professor FitzGerald's point, what we do not want to do is simply take up the can for the Conservative Party to let them make more public service cuts with no advantage to anyone at a cost to the taxpayer. Investing strategically in those sorts of links would make sense for the whole island.