Childrens fares from ticket machines ?

[Mark Gleeson]

Don't do child tickets

Neither the Luas or IE machines offer credit cards for below €5

Note the screen will only show valid coins, notes and cards based on the amount, €50 notes are not accepted unless the change is less than €18 (thats a legal requirement not a IE choice) Credit card is fine for weekly and monthly

Where a booking office is unstaffed there is no legal obligation on you to use the ticket vending machine, IE claim there is but they seem to make there own bye laws when it suits but the only legal ones are SI 109 1984

4. Where the Board gives notice that a station is unattended or the booking office is closed, or where any person is instructed by an authorised person to board a train at a station without purchasing a ticket at the booking office so as not to delay the departure of the train from the station, any person not in possession of a valid ticket entitling him or her to travel may enter a vehicle at that station for the purpose of travelling but that person must obtain a ticket or other authority from an authorised person on the train as soon as practicable after entering any vehicle or from an authorised person on arrival at the station to which such person is travelling by the train.

I'm not promoting fare evasion here but if the ticket you want isn't on the machine IE haven't a case against you