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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
Basically travel off peak Mon-Thurs and you will get a reduced price.
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Unfortunately, that's not true. The "book online for €10 fare" is something of a scam. Well, scam might be a bit strong, but it's very misleading.
I tried to book such a fare in December, but since only one carriage on the train was allocated for online booking, and the stupid system doesn't allow you to book the fare unless there's a seat available to reserve, I couldn't do so. Of course, to add insult to injury, when I went in the next day and paid the full fare, the train turned out to be an old commuter, on which no effort had been made to even indicate which carriage was the reserved one, let alone reserve individual seats.
The only logic I can see behind only allowing you book web fares when you 'reserve' a seat, is that it allows Irish Rail to ensure that 75% of the available seats on a given train are charged at the full rate.