This set is what runs the 1805 Connolly to Longford Monday to Friday. Given that there are no Longford-only services at the weekend, there is no practical way to get it back in place at Longford to run the service it is needed for on Monday morning.
The only option which might make sense would be to run it to Sligo as an 18:05 Friday-only service which would probably be reasonably busy and then run it back up at the crack of dawn on Monday so that it was in Longford at its normal time. But I can't see that doing much trade so this is not likely to happen.
In theory, they could run the 1805 to Longford as a 29k on a Friday but I'm not going to argue for that on a personal basis as this is my regular train. Also it is probably more in Irish Rail's interest to keep the commuters sweet by offering dependable 22k service rather than trying to please the infrequent weekend mid-day travellers.
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