Irish Rail don't want my money

[James Howard]

Here's an interesting mess that I've ended up in thank to a screw-up with TaxSaver. For whatever reason, my annual TaxSaver ticket which costs a shade under 4 grand didn't get renewed in time and now I can't have one until the start of October - not even a monthly to tide me over.

As part of the mess of trying to sort it out, I found out that there is no way around TaxSaver needing to be ordered before the 18th of the month. So basically, they need 13 days to process an order and give me a piece of plastic in return for four thousand euro. There also doesn't appear to be any way of buying a ticket over the phone with a company credit card.

And people wonder why Irish Rail are going bust.