how many times in the past few weeks has there been delays to services, due to faults, and damage to signal equipment. are they not maintaining to a high enough standard, what else are they skipping maintenance on… hope not safety !.. for all users delayed today look for refunds this and everytime, when profits take a hit they might act in the customers best interest.
http://www.railusers.ie/passenger_info/refunds.php

train still stuck in Harmonstown at 9:45…. get a bus folks

45 mins late for work today thanks to Irish Rail’s latest eff up, this has happen several times on the Maynooth line in the past few months and is indicative of the lack of respect Irish Rail has for its passengers. This delay was not announced in maynooth til 8am despite it having been apparent since 7am,. If it had been said sooner commuters could have left and gotten buses into town but no they left it until it was too late to get the bus! Very shoddy regard for customer service

Stuck here at kilbarrack still and nearly 10 o clock!

The biggest issue I had with Irish Rail this morning is the useless tannoy system. At the train station this morning either the announcer was speaking Greek or the quality was really bad – either way nobody knew what was going on!
I can accept that delays happen – the least they can do is show a bit of courtesy to their customers and let them know what’s happening. I had to email my boss and say I would be late but that I’d no idea how late – that’s not on.

They just invested in station improvements on the Maynooth line (particularly the D15 stations, Leo Varadkar’s constituency), including upgrading the digital displays – if they can’t be bothered to invest in a decent p.a. system why can’t they just use these to make announcements? Granted they don’t always work (again with the Greek), but they were actually displaying English words this morning

Should try be on the 810am from Maynooth to connolly. Supposed to be direct but is stopping at all stops. We only stopped in 3stations and it resembled a cattle mart. 21st century transport my ****. By the time we got to Broombridge they told us it wasn’t stopping in Drumcondra, had to go to Connolly. I did not get to work til 1015.

I was lucky to catch a mainline train, which stopped at every station but didn’t pick up passengers waiting in the rain at those stations. Whilst I understand the mainline commuter train runs non-stop into the city, there was room on board to pick up those passengers who waved in the windows from the wet platforms.

Sue for loss of earnings, that should make them a bit more eager to protect their income, and give a better customer service.

Sound like you have similar problems to London underground..
Welcome to the 21st Century..