The Wexford-Dublin route appears to have been virtually decimated!

Gosh, where is the Wexford bus going to go then? Out past UCD, then Arklow, then Gorey and on to Wexford, is that it?

Get that bus a lot going to Gorey, found it to be a decent enough service.

I used to get the 109 bus (Kells) frequently and I can say I never encountered a polite or friendly driver on the route. Sincerely.
The best you could hope for was to be grunted at as you boarded the bus. It used to randomly not show up on the Kells-Dublin route too, there must have been a black hole in the road or something.
If Bus Eireann ever bothered to listen to the customer feedback, they might have more of them!

Sorting out some of your drivers bad attitudes wouldn’t go astray either. Long story but I finally got an apology from one of the big heads, or so he told me, in Bus Eireann about an incident caught on camera. Anyways, Go bus all the way… friendly staff, cheaper and on time.

These guys are getting slaughtered by the private operators.

There would be a lot to be said for joined up thinking between Irish rail and BE. Busses acting as feeders to a few efficiency train lines with regular services.

The fact that two subsidy receiving entities are currently competing BADLY with each other on the same routes just isn’t sustainable.

Theres only so long they can keep up the cutting services and increasing prices game until the damage is irreversible.

One of the main ferry ports is in rosslare and only three trains from Dublin go there every day! IMO I think it’s a bit stupid to cut bus eireann routes from rosslare. This would mean passengers and locals having to find other means of transport to Wexford town which is about 10 miles away to get a bus if they miss a train. Also bus eireann has always been a cheaper option to the train.
Please correct me if I’m wrong on any of my points.

a welcome change for people travelling from Donegal to Dublin, and vice versa. mite get home in under 4 and half hours now!!

Another route Bus Eireann have managed to completely mess up is the amalgamation of the UL and Raheen buses in Limerick city. The two routes were somewhat reliable before but now the bus that comes every ’15 minutes’ generally comes after 45 minutes of waiting. Again, i try to use the buses that aren’t CIE, at least you know they aren’t reliable.

The 162 Monaghan – Dundalk service has a few drivers that take it and each one of them are lovely and friendly. The problem in Monaghan is the staff in the depot in the morning. A lot of the drivers won’t give you a ticket at the depot so you have to get one in the ticket office and the staff are never there. Waited twenty minutes the other day with a huge queue behind me before one appeared!

Bus Eireann driver would not let my eighty year old mam on bus because she forgot her pass. Left standing in the rain & cold for over an hour no bus shelter. What’s wrong with folk today? Not many seem to show any compassion,, Poker faced grunts should be happy to have a job, if they don’t like it give it to someone who would be grateful for it.. No response from poker face manager’s office either

They could do with cutting some of the stops on the 109 to Navan too. What should be a one hour journey takes 1.5 hours cos they refuse to use the motorway cos they’ll miss all these stops, that no one gets on at! And going up through blanch shopping centre, wtf is that about?

I avoid Bus Eireann by any means possible. I use dublincoach.ie to go from Limerick to Dublin. Cheaper, more comfortable and faster.

Seems Irish Bus is even worse than Dublin Bus. Didn’t think there could be much worse

“GoBus is a subsidiary of Bus Eireann”. Where exactly are you going with that? The company I fly for is a subsidiary of British Airways and they have completely differently business models to suit their own particular market. Bus Eireann need to wake up and,like a few other readers mentioned, listen to their customers. Thankfully I have a few options when I need to use the Dublin – Galway route.

Bus Eireann are dumb and deserve to go belly up. Overpriced, always late and don’t stop in many towns due to bypasses. In Carrickmacross I sometimes get the Airport route. Now this is an airport route so you expect the bus to arrive on time but many times I had to call a mate as the bus was 40 minutes late, no one was answering and just made the flights by sprinting across the airport. I’d probably still be waiting on it if I didn’t get a lift.

Out of the four that go past the town only one stops while all the others use the bypass. They refuse to build a bus shelter on the bypass at the town exit so if you’re going to Dublin you’ve to get a friend to drop you to Ardee (Dubin is 35 minutes further) and pay €14.50 for that distance.

I’m pretty sure if there is a hell it’s just an old Bus Eireann bus repeatedly driving around Arklow with me as the sole passenger for eternity. If the number two no longer went into Arklow I’d start to use Bus Eireann again, adds a good half an hour or more to the journey sometimes. I’ve been using Wexford bus and the Ardcavan since they came on the rounds solely because they don’t pussy foot around south Wicklow. Glad they’ve shelved Ashford though, used to feel physically sick with annoyance and further boredom when the bus use to veer off to the exit.

Regarding so called un friendly bus drivers, it would be nice if the passengers would say thank you when they got off the bus once in a while.

At least some of these villages have bus routes there is two buses cie that leave my village every day 7ish and 1430ish..

You a bus driver then Sean

Hate the routes should cut back I used the bus often and their only a hand full of people on them and most them pensions with free travel that should be scrapped too 1r2 euro even min should be charged

@Ryan Allen get your facts straight. Arklow has lost 3 stops. In their misguided way BE kept the 2 stops with no parking in vicinity leaving many with along 30-45min walk to bus stop. So guess what… more people back to their cars.

By Rosslare, do they mean Rosslare Strand or Rosslare Harbour, or both?