A commitment of any scale should involve a partnership with the ferry companies, with them "guaranteeing" x number of boardings with them making a payment to IE if these don't show up. The thing is - do the ferry companies have any interest in such an arrangement, when there is a competing option in BE? Also, a Waterford-Rosslare service arriving 0800 would be obliged to cross the Rosslare-Waterford service at some point, and to my knowledge that is not possible anywhere between Rosslare Harbour and Waterford.
The main thing is to ensure that services that do run make good connections with other IE services before worrying about the ferry, but the 1720 ex Waterford is a good example since it misses connections at both ends.
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