I've said it before- if you cannot buy a ticket at your station of departure (because the station is closed or there is no ticket machine available) then irish rail's system is gonna cause hassle.
i can't agree with mark about tara st being better with exit validation. i soent over seven minutes waiting to get out one saturday night as the magstripe o my ticket failed ( after considerably less than the 12 months it's supposed to) and the ticket checker sold everyone getting of the train their tickets before letting me out .
the gates are slower too, and if you stand in te wrong place they don't open even after you take your ticket out of the machine.
my wife was made walk backup te stairs frm the townshend st exit, along the platform ad out onto the quay and back up tara st cos there was no-one to let her out after the machine failed to read the magstripe on her annual ticket on several occasions.
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