Ridiculous – ferry into Rosslare arrives at 18.00 & the last @IrishRail to Dublin departs Rosslare at 17.55 – who plans this? @broadsheet_ie
— grainne mullan (@GmullanCat) February 23, 2015
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Get the 7pm bus. Problem solved.
+1
On the new roads the bus is probably quicker with an express. It is for the Galway / Dublin route, cheaper, more frequent, free wifi, loos and no pissheads… usually / less likely… not on Citylink anyway, they won’t let people on who are pissed which is great :)
Love how people are mentioning Citylink and GoBus… two companies that don’t actually serve Rosslare. So smart
not on Citylink anyway
Key there, ‘anyway’. Suggestion of a bus, supported by an example of a good service assuming there are good services too from Cork.
Did I have to type tho, really :)
It was planned so that Irish Rail doesn’t have to deal with customers. Less work for them and all that.
Think it’s got more to do with a train arriving into Connolly after 11pm.
Plus the bus serves pretty much everywhere the train would and is quicker.
Jdawg is brought to you by the “get a bus” foundation.
Well, I must admit. I prefer the luxurious surroundings of a train. But if needs must, get a bus. Tis me motto.
“If needs must, get a bus”
I like this, catchy
I’m quite fond of GoBus, myself.
I’d change it to “if needs mus, get a bus”….but that’s just me.
“who plans this?”
Irish people
#bringbackcolonialrule
Ooooh, railway management is the one area that argument doesn’t work!
#bringbackVictoriancolonialrule
For the travelling-knickers alone!
and smoking jackets
The same problem exists in Holyhead.
When I was a kid you got the Boat Train to the boat in Dun Laoghaire, where it pulled up in a beautiful frilly white ironwork station right beside the ferry; you detrained and got straight onto the boat.
Then in Holyhead rails brought the train right up to the ferry, and again, you walked down the gangplank and straight onto the train platform.
Now, in Holyhead you have to get a shuttle and wait – sometimes for an hour – for a train, the one that would have been the logical choice having left five minutes before the boat came in.
The problem isn’t a lack of planning – it’s that the ferry management don’t see foot traffic as their primary customer base. They base their services on cars and trucks and drivers; if anyone’s silly enough to want to take a boat and a train, they can jolly well wait for the schedule’s convenience, and not expect it to serve them.
I plan this. I am CEO of the train people. The main reason we do this is to avoid truckers and travellers.
Screw you train-face.
Im sorry, that was uncalled for
The B&B lobby has this all wrapped up in a neat package. Only don’t try to cross them or your egg won’t be runny.
National Transport Authority I believe.
Cant make changes unless the union approves, the union wont approve if theres changes in shifts. Cant change the timetable without changing shifts.
The world keeps turning yet Iarnrod Eireann still operate as if British rule just left last week
Hardly a British rule thing, is it? More of a ‘semi-states-hamstrung-by-unions’ thing (very Irish, in fact).
What is this strange obsession with ‘British rule’, gone nearly 100 years? Scarcely relevant today!
I’m sure 2015 will be the end to all this “remember when the Brits ran things” complaining/nostalgia
It’s the old colonial shoulder chip that never leaves us. It’s a byproduct of being Irish.
Also the byproduct of a coupla hundred years of colonial rule. If that don’t entitle us to make colonial rule cracks, I don’t know what would.
Person with their username in as gaeilge shouldnt be so quick to throw stones
“in as geailge”. tut tut, Jimmy.
saw that as soon as i hit post :-(
Cén fáth?
Well we did get some nice architecture out of them.
That and M&S dine for 2 meal deals.
don’t forget the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health
My jet ski taxi service will be rolling out in the summer
I prefer the term “boatercycles”
Ahh, sure, is it all that bad? T’is a lovely spot to have a few pints and stay in a B&B. You could get the early train, rest and enjoy your night off away from the rush of life. Have a few pints in the local, eat fresh fish, and sleep like a log.
‘This delay was brought to you by Tourism Ireland’.
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We spend millions of tax payers money enticing tourists to come to Ireland and then treat them like crap when they arrive.
toursist on the ferry are probably coming over with a car/camper-van. I’d say the lack of light rail/underground transport to Dub Airport is a bigger problem, although in fairness it is better than 10 years ago now there are private operators, the Airlink/747 direct buses and regulated taxi prices
An educated guess…(1) that sailing has a high percentage of drivers who do not need a train, (2) an earlier train is used by people other than in your sailing, (3) there are alternative transport options, i.e. bus. No can we all move on.
The most likely reason is that its timed to fit in with a train travelling South from Dublin so both will hit a station along the way at the same time as there’s only 1 track on the line south of Greystones.
The world isn’t exactly tailored to my precise needs! Ridiculous. Bloody Government peoples. Huff!