The solution to the Friday afternoon bus substitution for Galway is not all that easy. Forget Mk IIIs for a start: the maintenance facilities for them don't exist any more, and I am sure that at this stage bringing them back into service in relatively small numbers would be prohibitively costly.
One of the 6-car ICR sets appears to be out of commission since a shunting mishap at the Portlaoise depot. Tenders were sought for its repair: any one had any news on how things are progressing? Also two 3-car ICR units are missing because they were damaged beyone repair when in transit form Korea: IE are totally blameless (for once) on this last point.
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