@IrishRail another failure to load carriages in which tickets were sold. Cancer patient, me, left without a seat on overpacked train. Not interested in your nonsense about a refund. It is unsafe for me to stand and I am not able to. Had to humiliate myself begging for a seat.
— jude (@JMurphy10899283) March 31, 2019
Does Jim Meade, the CEO of Irish Rail endorse not providing passengers, including those with cancer, with their seats???? Does @Shane_RossTD ? Does @LeoVaradkar ? @IrishRail is the most dangerous rail service in the EU.
— jude (@JMurphy10899283) March 31, 2019
@ciarakellydoc typical situation on Irish Rail. cancer patients with reserved seats not getting them…no response from anybody with responsibility for dealing with this…
— jude (@JMurphy10899283) April 1, 2019
This morning.
Update:
@irishrail still no reply. Ignoring cancer patients with reserved seats in carriages that aren’t loaded forced to stand or beg for a seat on intercity trains. Huge health and safety breach. Huge health set back @IrishTimesWorld @thejournal_ie @broadsheet_ie
— jude (@JMurphy10899283) April 1, 2019
CIE lives.
Oh yeah, the state within the state, not even covered by FOI.
Enough with the ” I’m a cancer patient ” in every tweet.
We get it.You have cancer.And Irish Rail can be crap.
But do you need to keep reminding everyone in every tweet ?
Keith, People with life changing illnesses can sometimes, while under the enormous pressure their illness can put on their life’s loose their cool from time to time.. but yes what you said is understandable too..
I found out recently the scientists are now calling fundamental attribution error , implicit bias ….
that’s right keith, defend the indefensible
I can’t imagine the hardship of suffering cancer and I hope I never have to.
It’s deeply unprofessional and unfair that IÉ STILL don’t have this issue sorted: there’s no excuse.
With all of that being said, a few thoughts: I don’t believe Irish Rail is the most dangerous rail service in the EU, looking at the figures. Secondly, looking for someone to communicate with you via means other than twitter may prove more expedient and maybe ultimately more valuable to you.
By all means bring this issue up and highlight it in public though – as you are doing: fair play.
Jude, you need to find a better way of letting people know you have cancer, this was a weak effort.
I hope that’s your idea of humour, and if it is I pity you.
it’s the blushirt way, attack the sick and the poor..
If someone won’t move seats and they know you to have cancer, then they are an a55hole. This doesn’t seem to be the case here.
If the issue is because the train was overbooked, then the issue is with CIE, cancer needs not be mentioned.
If, as I suspect to be the case here, you’re using the fact that you have cancer to try and attack CIE, weak move.
This isn’t entirely Irish Rails fault. People take no notice on the Irish trains when seats are pre-booked despite the name or ticket number being displayed over the seat. It’s a free for all.
Even if you have booked well in advance there is no guarantee that your seat won’t be taken when you get on.
That doesn’t fly in other countries. If you are in someone’s booked seat you should move.
The ticket inspectors need to be the ones to check peoples tickets so this doesn’t happen.
Not sure if above poster booked in advance or not however.
I’ve seen people on Irish Rail being asked to move from pre-booked seats.
Probably by me
The issue here was that the pre booked carriage didn’t exist let alone the seat
Ticket Inspectors? Aw bless.
On several occasions I have booked a seat but the names are not displayed until the train has left the station. The inevitable arguments ensue with no staff member in sight. Every time I tweet a complaint to Irish Rail, a wet willy apology comes back. Don’t apologise FIX IT. Someone isn’t doing their job.
That is a truly daft way of organising things.
There’s a technical difficulty too, I believe, for connecting trains or people not booking the seat from end-to-end.
The name doesn’t display above the booked seat.
It’s years on at this stage since the new rolling stock came in so there’s zero excuse at this point.
With all of that being said, since this is not the first time that this person has dealt with this, I’d escalate via some means other than twitter: I suggest demanding platform assistance (as with visually impaired), so their own staff have to allocate your seat. If they were being more inconvenienced as a company, they wouldn’t be long putting in the effort to resolve the technical glitch.
There’s a technical difficulty too, I believe, for connecting trains or people not booking the seat from end-to-end.
The name doesn’t display above the booked seat.
In my experience, as a semi-regular traveller on Intercity trains, it does display “seat booked from station”, when it’s from an intermediate station.
Thanks TheQ47.
I don’t take intercity much any more, and only remember the issue I mentioned from many years ago.
I could be wrong here, but I think Jude has cancer
Such a sharp wit- what is your secret?
a distain towards anyone who needs help..
You really make it difficult not to think you’re a complete penis rotide. What is it? You hate your family? Your job? Must be an underlying issue.
My pre-booked seat was taken by a complete knob of a woman on a recent trip to Belfast and she wouldn’t move. I sat on the table, practically on her lap, and sang along to what ever I was listening to on my earphones until she moved which was about 30mins fair play til her.
I like your style, I would have treated her to Rammstein without the headphones and me singing along
I would have just picked her up and physically removed her from my seat