It is now no longer early 2010 and there is still no way of buying tickets online for Carrick on Shannon. I feel like buying them a printer because that is all that is needed.
I have worked out another trick but have yet to try it.
1- If you try and book Carrick on Shannon to Dublin the next page will say 'Reservations not available'. - however if you then do Sligo-Dublin instead it works ok.
2 - Proceed with this pretending for a minute you are departing from Sligo.
3 - Go right to the end and then just before you enter your credit card details go back to the home page.
4 - Now try again to book from Carrick and BINGO you suddenly can.
5 - Pick your train from Carrick to Dublin and away you go. The only snag is that you cannot collect the bloody ticket in Carrick as it is not in the drop down. Hence if you get to Castlerea or any other station with a printer you should be able to collect your ticket from there.
Note this is not by design but more as a result of bad web programming. (I am a web developer and I think there is a cookie being set to say online tickets available). However unlike the other suggestion of getting your ticket posted out and pretending to be getting on in Sligo at least your ticket is Carrick-Dublin.
I am thinking of trying this but before I do if anyone else has can they reply here with how they got on.
In the meantime if Irish Rail read this will you please fork out €50 and buy a printer for the station in Carrick on Shannon
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