Enfield & Kilcock are commuter towns to dublin, just like Maynooth & Leixlip but the price of a ticket from Connolly jumps up by as nearly €10 to go from Maynooth to Kilcock or Enfield, It’s cheaper to drive to work!

Expect to hear Ryanair style trumpets at a platform near you soon.

This will happen when you pad the timetable. Dublin-Cork services are quarter of an hour slower than when I moved to Dublin in 1999

Recently travelled Dublin to belfast return for two people for €32 reserved seating, on time and great value !

Now all that’s needed is a rethink on their outrageous pricing model to help encourage non-pensioners to avail of their great service. They could learn a lot from a week at Ryanair HQ!

was in Tokyo 4 years ago. A train is considered late if it is more than 30 seconds late and they still manage to get over 95% of trains to their destinations on time. IE are nothin short of a holy show, you can drive to galway from limerick 30 mins faster than what the train can get you there in!

As I suspected, saying that the journey time between Dublin and Cork is 12 hours and arriving in 10 hours does not mean you are two hours early, in real time it means you are 7 hours late……..

If you’re running a rail system with poor performance in a country adjacent to one with acceptable performance, wouldn’t it be a good idea to hire a few “consultants” from the other country and have them draw up a plan of action for improving service?

This is a national asset and for the government to continue to let it decay until it reaches a price point where corporate interests can pick it up on the cheap is not acceptable. The government sales of national assets is a blatant violation of sovereignty and clear evidence of corruption. The politicians didn’t pay for those assets, we did. They can’t sell them without our approval.

but there is still no connections between let say rathcoole and blanchardstown, clondalkin and swords etc. bus services are crap. all to dublin. so if i want to get from saggart to leixlip i have to go to dublin and from dublin to leixlip – 2h trip if not more.

10 minutes can’t be considered punctual,if you start work at 8 you don’t arrive in at ten past without being collered for it..

Iarnród Éireann trains are slow, over-priced, cold, and staffed with rude staff.

Steam trains in the UK in 1922 ran at a speed of 80 MPH -some even faste like the London Edinborough route. Irish rail mainline trains run at 42.3 MPH nearly 3 hours to Galway and Sligo. The CEO of Irish rail gets paid more than Obama and a bonus at Xmas for trains that run slower now than 70 years ago. He should be fired for inefficiency and poor performance . Croke Park – typical of what is happening as they get richer and the service gets poorer to the public in all areas. FOURTH WORST TIMES ON THE EU. — give yourselves another clap on the back for not being worst.

I’ll treat this info as I treat any other self-measurement. What does the Dept. Of Transport do, if not measure IE’s performance aginst international benchmarks?
Or is benchmarking only useful for pay increases?

Dress it up anyway you like but the facts are the facts it’s a very very poor service in all of its aspects but hey it’s Ireland lovely people always smiling shoulder to the wheel we are all in this together bullshit ,wake up people stand up and fight back don’t lower your standards to suit the system raise the system to your standard at least once a week do 1 thing to protest , maybe an email , a phone call ,a poster whatever end the abuse of your citizenship now.
Enda not one cent more you fatted calf,
30yrs in Leinster house living off the sweat of the hardworking taxpayer mr see no corruption do no corruption a failure in any other name .
Hands off the family home.

1947. That’s the last time that the speed of the train from Cork to Dublin increased. In fact, it’s slower now than when I was a kid going for a trip to the zoo in the mid 1990s. It was 2h30 then, now it’s 2h50. We may have shiny, new, comfortable, Spanish trains, but I’d take the orange and black ones back in a heartbeat if it meant getting to Dublin in two hours.

O WELL THATS THE COUNTRY BACK ON TRACK THEN !!!!!!! not…..

It’s because the Germans are in control of our country now