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Originally Posted by ACustomer
Traincustomer: you may be right, but I thought that Irish Rail and Bus Eireann competed for business. I make no comment on the desirability or otherwise of this.
I note that your link appears to be to a private bus operator. In that case, why would Irish Rail deliberately try to prevent business from being diverted to a rival?
The more you look at it the less you see of even the rudiments of business sense.
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CIE gave up completly on Thurles a couple of years back, the last route being Cork-Athlone was withdrawn in 2010 or thereabouts.
before that there were some attempts to divert the Dublin-Cork service into and out of Thurles but it didnt work. Thurles and Templemore had been well served oner the years train wise on a mainline, and Thurles/Templemore are off the beaten track from the main Dublin/Limerick/Cork roads