[Mark Gleeson]

Mk4 brand new has spent hours in countryside for various reasons, including one where smoke filled the coaches, delay 2.5 hours+, numerous delays recorded over an hour due to technical problems

2800 railcar set dating from 1999 spent 11 hours stuck blocking a track in Dun Laoghaire only 2 weeks ago leading to an enmass cancellation of all services south of Booterstown during the morning rush The list is endless, I don't care about the age of a train they will breakdown and industry experience shows that when a modern train dies it really does die and delays are in measured in hours. Really there won't be any difference serious mechanical failures will occur always and are quite independent of age.

But every time it’s the same line, passengers angry and no information and lack of any assistance from Irish Rail. Barry Kenny will come on and tell us how wonderful these new trains are going to be, he doesn't tell you that the *******ed set of coaches on the Sligo run have suffered only 2 recorded mechanical delays in 8 months, that’s about 27,000 miles per failure which is well good, the new train to Cork was managing under 7,000, enterprise is lucky to make 12,000. New =/= More reliable

The new trains won't fix the ignorant and lazy attitude of many staff, it won't fix the crazy management who can't deal with breakdown. Sunday night was a failure of people to manage. Train failed 18:20, rescue didn't leave Connolly till 19:25, had the rescue left Connolly before 19:05 it would have saved huge hassle