Irish Rail pays out €31,000 for train delays

The average refund was just over €17, but Irish Rail said that in the period since January 2023 99.9% of services ran without major delays

There were 54 delays of between 60 and 120 minutes on the Cork to Dublin route and 45 between Galway and Dublin. Photo: RollingNews.ie

IRISH Rail paid out close to €31,000 in refunds to passengers over an 18-month period because of trains that were delayed by at least an hour.

The rail operator said that 1,794 people had been compensated with either 50% of their fare for a service that was between 60 and 120 minutes late or 100% for a delay of over two hours.