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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
Come on be sensible
We get complaints of standing room only daily, the network is actually moving people, to run on the 26th would end up with a situation where you would have more staff than passengers which makes no sense at all.
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It's several years now since I had to stand on an Irish train, bar the Dart.
The country reopened for business on the 26th, airports, buses, trams all running. Most shopping centres were open on the 26th and many pubs, so there was money to be made. People who wanted to use the train though, either had to use other transport or stay at home.
The national rail network is very small. Trains run across Europe on the 25th, stations are open and manned, regardless of the local economy or passenger numbers. So it isn't good enough for Irish Rail to take an extra long siesta.