The engineering behind the journey planner is very very clever and it can and does make intelligent choices. Ask it nicely and it can plan a journey the whole way to Eastern Europe, but Irish Rail have disabled that feature... It can work out re routings in the event of missed connections and so on
The connection is 14 in Kildare, 16 in Portlaoise so it will by default favour the fastest connection
The timetable does not list a platform for the 07:20 off Portlaoise, as it can use either.
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