[sandraoh]

I was minding my own business queuing for the yet to board 7 o clock train last night at 18:45 or so and all of a sudden some yellow t-shirted people go to the top of the queue and whisk everyone from platform 5 to platform 4. This caused a crazy stampede to platform 4 and a mad rush to board the train without any tickets being checked. We proceded to sit in the station until 10 past 7 and just before the train finally pulled out the train manager (Joe) made an announcement that went along these lines "Can I have you attention please, I've just spoken to the driver and he tells me we will be moving shortly, sorry for the delay I'll let you know more when i know".

Once we had pulled out we stopped short of inchicore until 19:20. The train didn't really make up any time and arrived in Portlaoise 19 minutes late without any further announcement or apology.

Also why the hell does the automatic voice man call it the 19 zero hours train and the 21 zero hours train etc? It drives me mad. Thats not a time!