Senator Healy Eames gets the nail on the head here:
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With the amount of publicity this issue has garnered a number of emailers have offered to be a witness to tickets being sold on board by Iarnrod Eireann (IE). The majority of comments and posts indicate that people thought, as I did, that you could purchase a ticket on board and not break the law. Thus, practice confuses and the public are fined.”
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As i posted above, a policy of having ticket sellers on board contradicts the policy of "you must have a valid ticket before boarding the train"
even i am not as cynical as to suggest that this is actually a deliberate policy, i can understand that given the Boombridge situation (the Senator also mentions Thomastown) there may be a need for ticket sellers (or a voucher system at stations which are unable to sell tickets). However, why was there ticket selelrs on the Galway line? Any stations in that state there?
If you have a train on a line with all open stations still with ticket sellers, what message does that send out?