Website says no seat available in standard, what do you assume, you assume that in fact all seats have gone. You then blindly select first since you have no choice really, you need that train. You can't blame the passenger for going for the first option, they are being mislead.
Just imagine you where booking a long distance flight and where told all the tourist seats where sold and bought first only to find half the plane was empty?
You can imagine that Irish Rail stand to make a small fortune if Cork, Kerry or Tipperary get to Croke Park this year. Will those passengers in first find empty seats in standard, they thought didn't exist?
There is no way to know how many seats Irish Rail actually made available online once the train is marked as sold out. Typically its less than half of the standard class seats, but on sometimes its all bar 28, you can't tell but as of yet I've never seen every seat available online.
I recall a incident of the website saying the train sold out, I board and find less than 30 people in the last two coaches
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