[04/07/2010] Bob Dylan @ Thomond Park - extra trains to Dublin+Galway

[Colm Moore]

http://www.facebook.com/iarnrodeireann

Irish Rail

5 pairs of tickets to Bob Dylan live @ Thomond Park to win.

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Special Trains: July 4th Heuston–Limerick, Galway–Limerick. Trains return after the show at midnight. Tickets and concert info: www.ticketmaster.ie

[Mark Gleeson]

35 euro return from Galway, its normally 20 euro day return, what a rip off

[finnyus]

What good is there posting on Facebook about extra trains when it is not on the main http://www.irishrail.ie/ website?

I just looked on the IE Facebook page to see the details of the extra trains on the 4th and noticed that there are extra trains running on the Cork-Cobh line for some cruise liner:

To cater for the cruise liner there will be extra commuter rail services every half hour to and from Cork and Cobh from 13.00hrs until 19.00hrs on Thursday, 1st July. Thereafter our normal commuter rail service will operate from 20.00hrs until 22.30hrs on the day....

Why could this not have been posted on the IE website? I did not see any notices up @ Kent about these extra sevices either.

The Journey Planner is not showing the extra services for the Bob Dylan concert, or am I missing something?

[finnyus]

I found the train services and tickets. Why are they being sold on ticketmaster? Surely there is a corporate charge on IE for selling their own tickets on ticketmaster, why not use their own site? Is the train non-stop to Galway?

[Mark Gleeson]

Aiken chartered the train and take the full financial risk. Chances are they will be making a large loss...

Chartered trains should only be allowed where there is no existing service in the timetable which matches, if you want Drogheda Cork fine charter, Dublin Cork, book like the rest of us