Irish Rail Web Fare Policy

[Colm Moore]

Originally Posted by Inniskeen

Fares available on the web are riddled with anomalies. For instance it can cost more than €20 to travel by bus/Luas should you be foolish enough to book a through ticket from say, Dundalk to Cork.

For example one-way a trip from Dundalk to Cork on July 9th currently costs €34.95 whereas the cost for separate Dundalk/Connolly and Heuston/Cork tickets (1600 from Heuston) is €7.50 and €5 respectively. The Luas trip therefore costs €22.45 !

To a degree, this is much the same as the way the airlines do things. If you want to travel from Dublin to Bremen with Ryanair, you have to go via Stansted, Edinburgh (or slightly less obvious routings like Venice) and get two separate tickets.