Observed a passenger smoking on the northbound platform under the overall roof at 1730.
Archive for the ‘CIE Smoking’ Category
Pearse Station - 8th May 2009
Friday, May 8th, 2009Pearse Station - 5th May 2009
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009Observed a passenger smoking on the northbound platform under the overall roof. This is of course a breach of the workplace smoking ban.
Connolly Station 11th December 2008
Thursday, December 11th, 2008This evening I observed a passenger on Platform 4 smoking under the enclosed roof and an adjacent IR employee doing absolutely nothing about it.
Tara Street 8th November 2008
Saturday, November 8th, 2008At 1430 on the Up platform enclosed area, located at the top of the stairs from ground level, there was a passenger smoking unhindered.
Heuston Station 30th October 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008I observed a passenger smoking at the door of the 1805 Heuston to Portlaoise under the enclosed roof of the station at 1804.
Pearse Station jobsworth
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Whilst in Pearse Station this evening waiting for the train back to Maynooth, there was an IR jobsworth walking up and down the northbound platform blowing a whistle everytime someone stepped over the yellow line. Sad and pathetic. Of course, they will say, it is health and safety. Yes. Which is why there is only one narrow exit from platforms 6 and 7 in Connolly Station, even when there is an additional exit closed off and out of use. Then of course, there is the ARROW safety problem.
But the piece de resistance occurred at 1730 whilst jobsworth was patrolling the northbound platform. On the southbound platform, under the overall roof, there was a passenger smoking. No action was taken by jobsworth or anyone else representing IR. Enough said.
Pearse Station 21st October 2008
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008I observed a passenger smoking under the enclosed roof of Pearse Station at 1735.
Heuston Station 1st October 2008
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008There was a passenger smoking on Platform 4 under the station roof at 1752.
Monkey tries to travel without ticket - Japan
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Today’s Herald AM reported on a story about a monkey on the loose in a train station in Tokyo. Evading capture for over two hours, when police finally caught up with it, they decided to not take the matter further as “It’s a monkey - its not like it did anything bad”.
I can only imagine that if that happened in Dublin, the monkey would have been issued with a penalty fare notice and charged with trespass as well as a breach of the peace and resisting arrest, never mind failure to follow a Garda directive. Of course, if it took out a cigarette and started to smoke, all IR staff would look the other way, because we all know that there is zero enforcement of the workplace smoking ban on Irish Rail - “sure even the Gardai don’t enforce that” was the response I got from the workfare recipient behind the customer service desk in Heuston Station when I previously reported a case of smoking in Heuston Station.
Heuston Station 12th August 2008
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008A passenger who alighted from the arrival from Galway at 1735 commenced smoking on Platform 4 under the overall roof.