I was on the 13.40 to Westport (we were going to Portarlington) with wife and son.
Walked most of the length of the train but all tables were taken and at least 2 people sitting at them.
No problem there from the fact every unused seat at each table along the length of the whole train had bags, cases etc littered across them.
Finally, towards the end of the train we came to a table which had a woman and 3 large bags sitting there.
By this stage I was really annoyed with the the unbelievable practice of blocking seats so noone else can sit down and simply told the woman that we'd paid for the seats and did she need help in shifting the bags.
They were on the racks within 2 minutes. I've heard about this bags on seats stuff - it's unbelievable that IÉ let it go on. If a bag takes a seat, the person responsible for the bag should pay full fare for it.
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