Comments on: Irish Fail

By: David

David — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:38:05 +0000

I get that the system needs to update and without competition like virgin trains the system remains in a poor state. However, I always reserve and i always have to get someone out of my seat so i don’t understand why people dont just reserve a seat. Furthermore, why are there more trails. It isn’t as if people suddenly like walking or driving everywhere. I guess it could be worse the trains could be like trains in the USA, lol just kidding there aren’t any that you could ride without a gang of friends carrying machine guns. Here is another thought tax everyone evenly and make the trains free to ride on for the Irish and charge anyone else 60 from Dublin to Waterford.

By: bigmentaldisease

bigmentaldisease — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:58:03 +0000

Don’t worry Carol, I hear a report is being commissioned into why the machines aren’t reading the cards. A special committee consisting of Mary Robinson, Michael McDowell and Fortycoats is also to be established.

You should expect the report to be published in Autumn 2012.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:51:42 +0000

“for these people it must be like leaving behind regular steak dinners at home to come over here and eat slices of ham out of a bowl filled with pubic hair” – very funny and very true.

Irish Rail is an abortion. The pre-booked seats setup is a laughable fiasco. If you collect your ticket from the machines at Heuston, the new ticket-reading machines at the turnstiles actually can’t read them. Can’t read THEIR OWN FUCKING TICKETS! It’s like something out of Father Ted.

By: bigmentaldisease

bigmentaldisease — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:55:49 +0000

Yeah buses are about as reliable as Indian rickshaws! I really do think that our abysmal transport will end up ruining any chances of economic recovery. Bring in the Germans I say. They have railway systems to die for.

By: Gamma Goblin

Gamma Goblin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:48:30 +0000

Public transport in Ireland sucks sweaty Jackie Healy-Rae balls! We have spent tens of millions already on “researching” and implementing a universal ticketing system for all forms public transport in Ireland. They still havent managed to come up with a plan.

For just ten quid I could have told them to use the same ticket format for train, bus, luas, donkey drawn rickshaw… systems, with a relative value for each journey type. Problem solved in a matter of a few days. But no, we can’t do this because we have a beautiful setup in Ireland where these “government-owned” semi-state bodies are all competing with each other and therefore, all have their little petty clauses they need to get into the pie.

Public transport…

And have you ever noticed the amount of bus related incidents we have on Irish roads? I think they average out and 1 per week or something.

By: The Glamour of Irish Modelling | Big Mental Disease

The Glamour of Irish Modelling | Big Mental Disease — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:26:05 +0000

[...] they’re advertising Irish Rail, how about being honest? They should have blondie above dressed as a humungous foam turd, shrugging her sholders while [...]

By: bigmentaldisease

bigmentaldisease — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:49:40 +0000

Never a truer word spoken from the pride of Waterford

By: Declan Veale

Declan Veale — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:28:43 +0000

i agree with everything on this such a piece of crap organisation it isnt funny, do you know that if you want euoropean tickets irish rails policy is not to offer the service to search on their website but to search raileurop.co.uk ring sum knobhead in dublin with the times of your journey, and then they charge you an extra 50-60 quid as to whats on the SNCF/TGV tickets, whilst our british and french/german neighbours can access their own national carriers and book their tickets at normal rate tro an online portal…..also you can get a train ticket from London to Rosslare or Dublin which bundles the price of the ferry aswell, but you can’t do it if your irish and want to get the train from waterforsd to london, like we do live in the common market the same as the british so why can’t we avail of this offer..its funny really that my father went to work in london in the 60s and was able to get a ticket in Lismore which lasted him all the way to london. i think this means the service is gone backwards, especially considering that you can’t get a train direct between waterford and cork