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IARNROD ÉIREANN HAS unveiled images of the first trains of the new DART+ fleet, set to be in operation by 2026 onwards.
Ireland’s rail operator shared an image of a five-carriage train currently in place at its Inchicore Works site in Dublin.
It says that the new DART fleet will improve capacity, accessibility and customer information in the greater Dublin area.
The DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transit) is an electric railway transport system. It was launched in 1984 and runs along Dublin’s coast, from Malahide or Howth in the north to Greystones in Wicklow in the south.
It also has a commuter service, which extends out into Counties Louth, Meath, Longford, Kildare and Wicklow.
The new five-carriage train at Inchicore Works is the first of 185 carriages on order from rail manufacturer Alstom. These new trains are due to enter service from early 2026 onwards.
A total of 155 trains will be battery-electric. The first trains are due to operate on the Drogheda to Dublin Commuter route, with recharging facilities under construction at Drogheda Station.
Since 2020, Iarnród Éireann has been working on DART+, an initiative to to increase capacity on the the DART. Funded by the National Transport Authority, the rail service says DART+ will double the capacity and treble the electrification of the Greater Dublin Area’s rail network.
The new carriages are due to begin a regulatory approval, and testing and commissioning process before they enter service.
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Fools.
Fick as tuck.
Flueless ehh… funts is what I’d say
Tis onshore with high walls, what’s the problem. they’ll get wet, big deal
Jackie – there is water either side, it is a pier so they could be washed in to the sea behind them. You do it and leave your kids at home.
Cupid stunts.
Ah Lads come on now, buy them an Xbox if ya want rid of em.
To call them gobshiites is not fair on gobshiites!
Sorry I’m sure he didn’t mean to insult you Vinny
Gobshiites
Some people just have no cop on at all .
Some people are so stupid you would wonder how they even figured out how to have kids in the first place !!
Great to see parents doing a splendid job taking care of their children…
But think of the amazing photos they’ll have for Facebook later, all those likes & crazy comments!
What about the lives they put at risk rescuing them if something goes wrong
Yes Debbie you are 100% correct…..Surely it’s the duty of all parents to keep their children out of harms way, NOT to put them in harms way.
They should be named and shamed, if that is possible……Totally Irresponsible Idiots..
People are at this again?? How stupid can u get…
For some people having kids is the first of many bad parenting choices.
They should be taken into care – the parents, not the children.
I live in Howth and I wouldn’t go down the harbour today.
Genuine question: what would hypothetically be better for these kids – their mother and father who allow this OR a same sex couple who adopted them and kept them safer?
Do gays are better?
‘Do gays are better?’ Ah hmmm, I don’t know…do explain be clearer?
Who’s to say it wasn’t a gay couple?
That’s why I said hypothetically.
But why did you even say it in the first place?
@ Colin;
Your comment draws some interesting parallels to an encounter that I had in work the other night.
I work in a restaurant and these regulars come in. Now, these people are minted by most people’s standards. They’re also excellent customers who regularly frequent the restaurant. As a result, I, as a supervisor, am aware of how much these people’s custom impacts the business. Therefore, I know that I, as well as the waiting staff, have to put up with their “peculiarities”, essentially, they’re big supporters of Iona, massively Catholic and are virulently on the “No” side. They’re total homophobes, basically, despite their assertions that they have “gay friends”.
So, the female customer is well into a rant about how “she wouldn’t like to raised by two men or two women because it would obviously affect her childhood development”. I decide to play the Devil’s advocate in the limited capacity that I could.
I asked her; suppose two drug addicts have a child, as they often do, would it not better that the child be raised by two gay parents as opposed to two drug addicts, given that the kid would be likely to emulate it’s parent and become another drain on society? I deliberately picked those words to appeal to their sentiments, but she dismissed this, saying, and I quote,
“That never happens anymore, the children of drug addicts and alcoholics are always just taken into care and given to better foster parents”.
I was dumbfounded, but knew better than to argue. How can you argue with one whose mind is so closed?
The great irony is that these people consider themselves devout Christians. What happened to”love thy neighbour as yourself”?
Toddle on paperboy. The adults are talking.
Yeah talking sh!te.. @ Colin Moron
Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense. Good lad.
I understood what you were trying to say but it was irrelevant and in quite bad taste too.. now take your silly comments elsewhere.. good lad
I’m just pleasantly surprised that there are still parents who actually get out and do something rather than watching TV all weekend.
You get pleasantly surprised by 2 flies having a ride mid-air though.
And why wouldn’t I? Around us all is wonderment, if we open our eyes to it.
If it’s that dangerous surely the coastguard should close the area off
In other news, don’t let you kids climb trees, cycle, or run. No fun allowed, by order of the government. How many kids have been killed in Ireland by freak waves?
1 would be too many Alan that’s the bloody point!
I know people have been swept into water in the Aaron islands, or anywhere off the Atlantic Ocean, but a national news story about Howth, just an excuse for busybodies to call parents stupid.
Oh Alan, nobody is saying the kids aren’t to have fun. This is not about that. You try holding on to a kid, and keep your own footing, when you are caught off guard by how much force there can be in those waves. You get lucky, both of you just get soaked. Unlucky, you, or the child, or both get washed off the pier. Then what happens. Someone has to go in after you. Again, lucky, you’re rescued. Unlucky, someone DIES!
And this isn’t a national story about a little harbour in Howth. This is a reminder to stop and think before doing something stupid, endangering yourself and your children!
It was a recommendation by an expert, Alan – not an order. Get with it.
That is not true, many people in the comments have called for the kids to be put into state care where over 12 children die every year (according to the Journal), much more dangerous than waves. I am not from Howth, I don’t know what these waves are like, but I encourage my kids to play sports, cycle, ride horses and fly planes, boys need some danger in their lives. The comments I see here make me feel, that the people here have never had a connection with their children, never really been with them in the moment, and not giving a damn what busybodies say. Maybe the waves are too high, but calling for kids to be put into care is sick.
I wonder why someone would make a comment like this one?
Do you mean your comment or mine, if you are talking about your own comment, it is genius, it is almost like, I am seeing myself, writing a comment, but, if I can see myself writing a comment, who am I? The person writing the comment or the person seeing myself writing the comment?
Good points Alan.
Remember that the latest cover-ups about child abuse are not of Church institutions either. So more children die in care in Ireland than are washed off piers.
This is news?
Think about the coast guards risking their own lives to save these idiots.
totally agree….im not saying it’s the right thing bringing kids to howth today…….but at least the family are out together doing something…..and trying to have fun together…..give them a break…im sure we’ve all made bad judgement calls when kids are begging for a bit of craic…..
it must be great to be so perfect!!
Well said alltalk
some of my fondest childhood memories involved near death experiences
Love it
I know. It’s so true!
Who could ever forget their first self-sustained concussion?
- Unless of course it’s linked to amnesia…
Ha ha definitely. I remember cousins of ours would come visit us down the country and their parents were so uptight……not allowing them jump too high on the trampoline…no climbing trees etc…
on the otherhand my parents encouraged us to do everything and I must say it develops a sense if adventure alot of people don’t have these days …
my brother wasn’t great at school,totally adhd by these days standards not to mention dyslexic…He found it difficult. However my parents encouraged his adventurous side to be developed……..constantly out and about.every Sunday when most parents couldnt be arsed doing anything with their kids we were off on adventures with my dad..In forests..up mountains ..im the sea…all the neighbours in tow…….we would have definitely been the ones in that photo…….and no it never ended up with
coastguards being called…
anyway.. my brother is now a fireman and a paramedic. got a degree in international world disaster management…European surf lifeguard medalist and internationally recognised big wave surfer…..
im just really glad for him that he grew up in a house where parents took a chance,had a bit of craic,connected with their kids and encouraged them to have a sense of adventure…
I know dragging them into the sea in rough conditions isn’t thde smartest thing…
but neither is wrapping them in cotton wool
mollycoddled kids = paranoid adults
:-)
The kids should be taken off them how stupid is this no common sense what so ever.
Maybe the Harbour Master should close the pier, not everyone is familiar with sea conditions and the dangers of powerful waves.
People underestimate the power of water and much too often they realise it much too late.
Stay well aware for the rough sea as every once in a while a larger wave will arrive and could drag you out to sea and you will not be able to do anything about it. If you get injured along the way you will more than likely drown,
Exposing ones children to this danger is criminal.
Gowls!!
By putting their children’s lives at risk the parents are also relying on the overstretched emergency service’s. Complete and utter mindless idiots
Why would anyone want to go near Howth Pier on a day as dismal as today!!!!!! Even the Harbour Master stayed at home in bed!!!
3 counts of children endangerment and all the Coast Guard does is take pictures FFS!
@lesbehan how do you know this is all the coast gaurd did? Wouldn’t the idea of the pictures be to highlight to others the stupidity of these so called responsible parents! !!
yea, why did’nt they film it
LesBehan,
You are only aware of the 3 acts of child endangerment because of the photos. All the warnings in the world can be written,showing us what people are doing can help a lot more.
The person standing with their child under the wall waiting for a wave to come crashing over them must be up for a Darwin Award.
Howth Garda station is less than a 10 minute walk from where that picture was taken. My point is this idiot such be report to Gardaí and arrested for putting these children lives in danger. It’s not the children’s fault the guy is a moron but could easily lose their lives as a result of it.
And the Gardaí did what?
Can see the pier from the house and currently two people walking on the upper level. Guessing they are not Journal readers.
Probably couldn’t afford the water so they took them out for their weekly bath
Oh would ye ever fockoffski
I tried but I didn’t have the hawk eye to see where I was going
I have childhood memories of being in places like this on days like this and I love the fact that I have them.
I remember worrying if the pier would be washed away. It wasn’t, nor were those memories.
How sad to think that it’s somehow wrong for me to have them.
Your the man, Paul, well said. The peanut gallery are going to hate you.
Take the children’s allowance off them lads. No mercy.
You need a licence to own a dog, & Dogs in Distress come & inspect you, your house, & garden before entrusting you to take on one of their rescue dogs.
Pity those toddlers being put in harms way by their idiotic parents.
3 counts of child endangerment and all the Coast Guard does is take pictures FFS!
Yeah, you said that already.
The coastguard shouldn’t bother issuing warnings – evolution is suppose to get rid of the idiots. Tough on their kids – but they have already inherited their parents genes – including the one that governs stupidity.
Darwin awards
Absolute click bate, I have walked this peir hundreds of times, the picture of the parent with his children is taken about 200 meters from where the waves break.
Handycaps !!!
Idiots .
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