I just visited the Casino today and I think a fine job has been done and was very impressed, The Irish Railway displays before entering the main room along with some of the Fry collection was excellent. A huge improvement on The Castle (Why did it close? Did FCC accept a big offer to build the retail park instead?) as the castle didn't go into Cyril Fry, the man, the modeller and the vastness of his collection.
I agree with the comments earlier on the main room. The cabinets are good but the room is too narrow to accomplish what is being attempted. Nice to see the desire here to keep upgrading as the real impact of the castle was the frenetic activity which I loved. I heard earlier how FCC dictated layout over the layout experts but the centre piece is 4 great models but it's a landscape model rather than the original showcase of Irish Railways history. Bray Head fabulous but lacks information for the visitor on where Bray Head is, why there's an empty tunnel, (Fabulous Models for the builders to be proud of by the way). Same goes for Malahide, Mallow.
The screens with the full collection pictured, is I am sure a work in progress with more detail to be provided on why, where, when etc. This is really good but lost in the narrow space unfortunately. Maybe should be in an earlier room.
Finally, the shop is extremely poor and should be selling rail stuff. Mad that all it had was a Hornby starter kit along with Tourist Tat. Why not Murphy Models and IRM stuff plus something to allow the visitor to put together a "play set" of what they've seen. Probably Shannon Tourism blinkers I know.
I'd give it all an 8/10, much more of a serious museum than previous (7/10) but a lot of good has been lost of the previous that I'm sure you already know and would love to be given the chance to fix.
I hope nobody is offended here, I could never hope to do 10% of the quality. I have no intention to criticise.