Saw your news report.
There are 380 tram journeys* on every workday, they can't all be policed. The few that are policed, serve as a mere time-wasting exercise of Garda resources, or a chance for Polish and Lithuanian security guards to chat to each other.
Some of the claims are valid, such as objects thrown and drinking, but some are invalid, e.g. "sleeping on board". That's just tiredness, not anti-social behaviour. What next, "feet on seats?", "mobile phones?" It's Dublin they're travelling in, not Beirut.
The biggest problem with the Luas is not to do with security, but the (laughably described as) "pedestrian access" at the Red Cow HQ stop. Despite the cost of erecting barriers and bridges, all that was required was to build a routine stop at the hotel. The current stop is the most anti-pedestrian transport stop I've ever used in the whole of Europe, and it's access alone puts people off using it.
*Red Line only, discounting Heuston-Connolly.
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