Stop saying THAT.
You always say that.
To celebrate five years of steamy Dublin Bus porn.
Would you care to take an open-air ride around Dublin?
Dublin Bus have given FIVE pairs of tickets for the Dublin Sightseeing Hop-on Hop-off Tour to giveaway today and five more to do the same tomorrow. Plus a pair for the South Coastal Tour and a pair for North Coastal Tour [see below for locations] are among the bus booty.
Take a rural pal, invite your mother, see the city that always sleeps in as you’ve never seen her before.
To enter, Just complete this sentence.
‘The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is________________’
Lines MUST close at midnight tonight.
[Entrants may wish to include reasons for their choice of driver]
Meanwhile, about those tours.
Nigel Goggin writes:
Take the Dublin Sightseeing Hop-on Hop-off tour and experience the best that Dublin has to offer. You’ll be charmed and entertained by the best (Fáilte Ireland accredited) guides in Dublin and you’ll hear fascinating stories and insights into the culture and history of the city.
With over 30 stops on two routes we’ll bring you to all the main Dublin attractions. Discover The Jeanie Johnston or The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on the Docklands route, or hop-off to visit Dublin Zoo, the Guinness Storehouse or The Book of Kells on the Original route.
The Coast & Castle tour will bring you to visit Malahide Castle and Howth Harbour, The Glendalough & Powerscourt Gardens tour will bring you south of the city to two of Ireland’s most stunning destinations. Both tours include a live commentary to keep you entertained en-route while enjoying the beautiful scenery along the coast of Dublin.
Dublin Bus Sightseeing (Facebook)
No cash, favours, rides, etc. given for this post
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is Horace, he’s always on time.
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is Tom.
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is: The chap who used to pick me up at the terminus in Rathfarnham as the first passenger, I’d get the bus all the way to the last stop in Santry for work. Just a lovely dude.
‘The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is hopefully still out there’
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is John Doyle, dedicated to the job and a die hard Pats fan :)
I know John. He was my neighbour growing up in Swords… Of course, there might be more than one!
The best bus driver I have ever known was the driver who kept piling people on the 62 from Hawkins St when it started snowing ridiculously heavy one Thursday evening, back in the early 90s. By the time we had gotten to the Triangle in Ranelagh, it was ankle deep and sticking. He drove slowly and carefully due to the crowd on board, made sure nobody was left at the stops and made sure we watched our step when we got off.
I didn’t get his name, but it’s something I remember to this day. A daycent aul skin.
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is driving a bus for a living.
The best bus driver I know is the driver of the 42 who closed the doors on me on Lower Abbey St., then pulled inches away from the curb only to be stopped in traffic. I knocked on the glass politely and he just turned his head, looked at me, then turned his face back to the road.
The traffic began to move, so with a heavy backpack on my back, I took off in the direction of the route’s next bus-stop on Amiens St. Racing alongside the bus, some of the passengers had notice what had happened and were now watching intently. However, when I broke off for a short cut past the Isaac Butt and the entrance to Bus Áras, they would have assume the chase was over…
…until I burst around the corner opposite the IFSC and sprinted to the stop with all my might. The driver had been dutifully paying attention to the road and not to me, so when he opened the doors and I was the first passenger in-line (albeit red-faced and sweaty), to say he was surprised was appropriate.
Why is he the best bus driver I know? Because in fairness to him, when he copped on to what had happened, he broke out laughing and said “Go on, grab a seat, Chancer. No charge!” :)
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is the people of Dublin.
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is the lovely chap who used to drive the number 23 from Drimnagh to Ballybough back in the 70’s. I used to take the bus to school everyday and he was a very cheerful guy who always made the trip a little shorter.
He should have stuck to the proper route.
Lol, good point. Btw, I forgot to mention I’ve been living in the states since 1987 and I’ll be heading over for a visit in October…..;-)
The best dublin bus driver i have ever known is a man called Tony, lets call him Tony H – I played football with him, smashing keeper in his day. Not sure what route he does now, but he used to drive these very buses – dublin sight seeing tours – and gave all the shpeel etc over the microphone.
Anyway, legend has it (well my mate, the other subject of this story, backed it up (not the bus, the story, wha wha)) Tony was driving the bus full of foreign tourists through town when he spotted my mate keith’s van. Upon pulling up beside the bus, he told all the passengers on board that keith was a very famous retired irish international footballer and told everyone on the bus to wave at him.
Loves a laugh does tony :)….ps sorry if you get your p45 for that Tony.
ps my daughter is always asking me to bring her on one of those buses!!
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is the delightful frenchman who took me home on the 16a, and made that lengthy journey enjoyable with a little impromptu tourist guide. From him l learned a life skill: never let lack of knowledge get in the way of ANYTHING!
the best bus driver i know used to take us to malahide from the sands in portmarnock on the 32 as a nixer- 50p each. we’d get a good hour’s extra underage binge drinking in, instead of waiting for the 32a. alas, it was a bullsh1t-fuelled, vomit-stained walk home though.
The best Dublin bus driver I’ve ever known is Adrian Lennon. A bus fanatic and lovely guy out if Clontarf.
I know Adrian as well, mad as a brush and all round lovely fella!
The best Dublin bus driver I have ever known is a really bad title for a biography of comic actor Shane Richie…because he’s not from Dublin, nor does he drive a bus.
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is the lovely tall chap with glasses that I see on the 16 route sometimes. He has any amount of time to help tourists coming from the airport and always has a beaming smile. Even when he has to swap driver he makes sure the next driver knows when to give each person a shout for their stop. He’s one of the first Irish people tourists might meet and is a ringing endorsement for Dublin.
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is the driver who wore a Santa outfit on the 130 each Christmas Eve.
I’m sometime a bit down on Christmas eve, but when I see the Santa driver, it really gives me a great Christmas cheer!
Shame health and safety and banned this from now on :(
I’ll meet you for a coffee xmas eve if you like :)
They ban Santa suits yet Diarmuid O’Gorman’s uncle drives barefoot?
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is Tom Kavanagh (Conyngham Road Depot). Tom was known to ALL on his routes (78A & 79). You would always leave Toms bus happier then you were when you got on.
When his bus pulled up to the bus stop and you’d see Tom behind the wheel you knew you where in for a bit of craic He’d always be on the Bus PA telling people which stop was next, slagging people and i even remember him singing 1 morning
But the fondest memories would be when Tom would be on Community Duties bringing school groups, football teams or community groups on outings. He brought my football team down to Brittas Bay years ago and even managed grab a brand new City Swift single deck bus to bring us down. He said his bosses “didn’t know he had it so we were to keep it clean”
A truly Great Man and i was saddened to hear of his passing in 2012. Although a Waterford Man he was a Dublin Icon growing up in the 90’s
Below is a photo of Tom (Hes the one on the left)
http://www.announcement.ie/death/kavanagh-thomas-robert/14574514
RIP Tom
That was an amazing post thank you
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever know was a dedicated driver of the 83. I made a dash for the bus and caught it, alas with no coins and -40c on the leap card. I explained to him my situation in a ‘please don’t throw me off and make me wait for the next 83’ voice. He eyed me sympathetically, and told me he couldn’t let me on for free, but the best he could do was drive me to the closest spar to top up my card. I said ‘sure yeah grand’ not really believing him. I took a seat and sure enough a few minutes later, he stopped at the spar on lower Rathmines road, opened the door and smiled at me while I legged it inside to join the que of lads buying naggins while the other passengers stared at me from the bus. The driver waited patiently as I topped up, ran back on board, paid the appropriate fare and sat back down, and went merrily on our way. I’d just come back from Australia and I believe nothing like that could have happened there and it reminded me of the good natured old fashioned way of the Dublin Bus Driver! Thanks 83 bus driver dude!
The 1 that woke me up at 18 on the 26 which was a 66 and a 67 via the N4 that I boarded at 7 and left at 11, 1 morning in ’97 after a 24 hour thing that 1 doesn’t care 2 remember.
I don’t know any Dublin bus driver, as I’m a potato munching rural dweller from down the sticks, but I would love to meet the best Dublin bus driver on one of these trips with Dublin Bus Tour and see the big shmoke too.
They have rules about who they let in
…the 31 driver to whom I said “whatever stop’s closest to Harry Byrne’s, thanks”, and turned to see the guys I was meeting there on the same bus; (none of us regulars, didn’t know fare) they must’ve said the same to him ‘cos he dropped all 5 of us right outside the door, stepped off bus and into pub. As we got off, he growled “enjoy yizzer pints, lads.” Legend.
The best bus driver I know is called Ger. He drives the 33 and is one of the nicest men I’ve met. His twin daughters both have cystic fibrosis and he and his wife have been through some seriously tough years. The man is an absolute hero.
There are several bus drivers that I think of as really nice guys, but my favourite is Jimmy on the 84. No matter what kind of day I’m having, when I see he’s driving it cheers me up a little. He’s a star.
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is my uncle Michael, who always drives with no shoes on.
True story.
The best Dublin Bus driver I have ever known is the one that took me and my Dublin friend last year from Christchurch to Kilmaingham. I hope to get to ride the same one in September <~~~~~Not from Ireland…3rd visit in 3 years. Bringing people. Helping your economy. Peaders wouldn't give me a free beer last year :-P even though they said they would.
But he’s not always there when you call.
Oy. This app.
The best bus driver I have ever known was my driving instructor, Gordon. I rang up one day to book a lesson and I was told that, having clearly tired of me tootling aimlessly around the Phoenix Park pointing out cute dogs, he had left to become a bus driver. You were always too good for me Gordon, I just never realised it at the time!
(Please do not make me get on a bus.)
I’m late on this one but anyway… best bus driver was a driver of the 7 about 10 years ago. I was running for the bus and fell over flat on my face. he reversed the bus back up the road, got out and helped me onto the bus. Though at that stage I was so embarrassed I’d have rather waited for another bus