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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
Child tickets are available at ticket machines for all intercity journeys.
Child tickets are no longer available for Dublin commuter journeys at ticket machines due to wide scale abuse by adults purchasing child tickets.
Child smart cards are available which offer discounted fares during school hours and full child fare otherwise and in July/August. These are linked to a photo and data of birth to avoid any issues with staff challenging for proof of age
Where the ticket you need is not available from a ticket machine you may travel without a ticket, provided you purchase the ticket at the earliest opportunity.
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Recently bought my son a leap card on line (can't recall if his Date of Birth was asked for at the time), but forgot to take it with me today and tried to buy a child ticket for him at Killiney. As you point out, this was not possible from the ticket machine and there was no one on duty to sell one.
The machines suggest that you can add extra adults and children at a later stage of the purchase, but then when you try to, only adult tickets are possible.
This means that Irish Rail are losing revenue (and most probably some passengers are worrying during their journeys that they might be slapped with a big fine). If some adults travel on child tickets that's a separate issue and shouldn't be dealt with by not making children's tickets available for sale.