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Originally Posted by RadarControl
He also mentioned that if you keep your ticket in your wallet next to your debit card or a swipe card for work can cause the magnetic to become damaged. This maybe true as I have heard similar stories in relation to Oyster cards in London.
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That is, as far as science is concerned, nonsense. It was on Mythbusters some time ago. IÉ tickets are magnetic stripe tickets and outside of the machines, it would take a serious magnetic force to damage the ticket. On the Mythbusters show, they demonstrated that the strength of magnet needed to damage a magnetic stripe was such that the magnet would hold itself in place if you had one in your hand and one below it.
Oyster cards are a different story. They are RFID cards (just like the Luas and Dublin Bus smart cards) and having two or more of them in close proximity can result in none being read. The cards aren't damaged, though, and presenting one card on its own to the reader still works.
If the Dublin Bus machine is reading the ticket and the IÉ one is not clearly the IÉ machine is at fault. The suggestion that you should have to pay to replace a faulty ticket is beneath contempt.