The whole fee structure in Irish Rail needs an overhaul.

A ticket from Heuston to Hazelhatch costs €2.50 but to go one stop further to Sallins costs €7.50! I can’t fathom why the 7 mins between Hazelhatch and Sallins costs 3times as much as the journey from Heuston to Hazelhatch!

Trains are a rip off. Friend of mine paid €50 one way from limerick to dublin on saturday. How is this even possible?

Why until april?students dont finish college then…

a little late?! I study in dundalk and am from Sligo.. it would cost me €71 to travel to Sligo via Dublin abd take upwards of 6 hours…

Commending students for using their service will still over charging them to date is an insult.

Offering special rates for a tiny duration of their academic calender is a joke…. I can fly to the UK cheaper and quicker (including check in times) than I can travel across the country….

Ok so these prices, even with the discount, are about the same price as a plane ticket to Europe! Trainstation vs airport. I don’t understand their pricing structure at all!

About time, at present it’s cheaper for an adult to get a return online fare if cannily booked (20 or 30€) than a student return from Galway to Dublin. It’s a bloody ridiculous price anyway, I paid 36 euro several years ago to go from the south of Italy to the north, 30 hours on two trains. Some public service that. Maybe they are starting to learn that filling your trains up with cheaper tickets provides a better service than less-sold more-expensive seats.

Besides, the new motorway here from Gal to Dub means buses are trouncing rail for affordability and speed (it’s now 10 minutes quicker on the direct bus, 2h.30 down form 3.15 on express bus before motorway. There’s a plug for coming to galway :)

Anyone know if this applies to routes that aren’t to or from Dublin?

There are a few cross-country routes (e.g. Limerick-Waterford, Cork-Tralee/Killarney) that attract decent numbers of students.

I’m just wondering if they have them, but the publicity department didn’t notice or whether the routes don’t even count at all.

It’s the least they can do as the service is dreadful. Slowest trains in Europe ( ranked 4th last) with all the investment spent on inferior engines simply because of corruption and brown envelopes.

Keep up the discounts and extend them to TDs

Why isn’t Belfast included in the promotion? Eejits!

It was not too long ago you could get €10 one way fares from Dublin to Cork online.
We forget very quickly.