Cancelled Irish Rail services

[dahamsta]

This is Current Affairs, not humour. Now get back on topic please.

[pete]

Upgrade works due to commence on the Cork - Cobh line this evening, 3rd October have now been deferred until further notice. Scheduled train services will operate as normal on Cork - Cobh line

This was reported to be caused by Irish Rail maintenance workers looking for "payments" to allow outside contractors to complete the upgrade works for the lines. I think they were told this week to turn up for work or lose their jobs. Union did not back them.

Irish Rail in Cork is definitely the worse place for spurious strikes in the country.

[Macy]

Irish Rail in Cork is definitely the worse place for spurious strikes in the country.

I've said it before - takes two to tango. Management in Cork must be brutal too for things to continually blow up.

[pete]

I've said it before - takes two to tango. Management in Cork must be brutal too for things to continually blow up.

It says a lot of about the dispute they had there that no one backed the workers. In any other context it would be called extortion. Payments to allow other people work doesn't happen anywhere else in the public or private sector.

[Macy]

Payments to allow other people work doesn't happen anywhere else in the public or private sector.

It happens all the time. For example if there's agreed overtime, companies effectively buy out the agreement with lump sums, or sometimes none financial benefits such as once off extra leave entitlements. I've no idea of what the situation is in Cork for this dispute, but payments to allow outsourcing do happen in both the private and public sector.

[mypost]

One of the reasons why Lansdowne is sorely missed is it's access, on the DART line right beside the station, and why Croke Park isn't. For games at Lansdowne, match special trains would be sent to the ground to cope with the numbers travelling.

Last night, all services on the Drumcondra/Maynooth line were delayed due to a "major signal fault" at 2 other stations. After whipping out their "we'd like to apologise" line, the 7pm train from Dublin city centre to the game was announced as delayed until 7.30pm. 7.30pm duly arrived and the train was announced as been delayed another 20 minutes. So you had to make your own way to the game, and mypost finally arrived at the game 10 minutes late.

Irish Rail weren't going to dig out another couple of spare trains from Inchicore and send them over to the city centre line, on one of the busiest nights for the Drumcondra line in the year. Apologies mean f all. Action in such circumstances is what's needed.