A small, but useful, change
 

Is there any chance that Irish Rail might consider putting the best entrance for given seat numbers on the doors for CDE sets.

It would make boarding a lot smoother if people knew which door to get on at for their seat and didn't have to battle 80% of the way down the carriage to get to their allocated seat.

I suspect that a seat number is always at a certain end, certainly on Cork-Dublin, but it may vary occassionally on other trains.

While I suppose that helps you, it might not help everyone else, so yes numbers and arrows might be useful.

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Another thing might be to point out "This carriage mostly reserved" and "This carriage mostly NOT reserved" or similar wording.

If you do it regularly enough, you get to know lower numbers at the Cork end, higher numbers at the Dublin end.

But a lot of people aren't regulars.

I think it helped delay the train yesterday.

The 15:30 from Cork was in half an hour late and boarding for the 19:00 only started at 18:55. Eventually, we left 7 or 8 minutes late, but if people had been able to get into the carriages faster, that may have come back a bit.

Still, thanks to the miracle of timetable padding, we were on time into Cork.

Quickest help would be a clearer coach letter on the coach would speed things up

Given we can't get Irish Rail to slap a bike sticker on the bike coach what hope of something simple like this?