[16-4-2008] Maynooth and Sligo disruption

[Mark Gleeson]

So lets go back to when Irish Rail actually followed its own rule book

Back in 2003 the relay room in Pearse flooded one Friday night, signaling totally borked

Following morning I boarded a train and guess what we got to Pearse, since the rule book had been fully applied, promptly and efficiently. Ok so it was a little slow and commuter services had to run from Connolly but there was a train service despite the entire signaling system being busted.

Roll forward to last week, abandon everything, and issue misleading information to the public and make zero effort to apply the rules in an effective manner

The first statement concerning the failure quoted power failure as the reason, thus the generator comments are fully justified, even if the generators work the signaling is known not to like the generator and things stop working