Archive for February, 2009

Tourism Ireland doesn’t know about Ireland’s rail network

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

The story can be found here on IRN. Says it all really.

Fuck up at Pearse Station

Friday, February 6th, 2009

What happened lads that you forced the closure of two of the busiest stations on the network during rush hour? I was in Pearse Station on Thursday evening and noticed a rail enable cherry picker in the old Platform 1/2 area. Did this breakdown on the running lines overnight? Where is your bloody contingency plan for such an event, other than “fuck the public”?

CIE forgoes €1m for executive box in Lansdowne Road

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

It has been reported that the gombeens in CIE have taken a corporate box for themselves in Lansdowne Road stadium in lieu of payment for air rights over the DART line.

Given that this amount is what they reckon they will get from car parking charges at stations, they could have used this revenue to avoid the introduction of car parking charges. But why pass up on an opportunity to screw the public.