I have spent several hours over the last two weeks trying to develop a fares calculator for our website, we have a draft system for part of the network complete. It was painfully complicated to write as Irish Rail use a totally logical structure and then bolt on an obscene number of variants. We have people checking fares all over the place so we can validate our system
In fact we have discovered Irish Rail can't even calculate the fares themselves in some cases
End of the day no one has a problem paying a euro standard fare for a euro standard service. This certainly ain't Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland etc
An efficient, reliable, clean, punctual service running at times to meet public expectation is what we want, efficient, reliable, clean, punctual are not terms anyone will associate with IE
Dublin Sligo return is the same as a single, there are heaps of discounts from Munster to Dublin but none from Dublin to Munster, no one can explain that