Irish Rail criticised for giving priority to service

IRISH RAIL was accused of treating its Limerick customers as second class citizens in order to give priority to Cork passengers in a new schedule of morning services to Dublin.

A new schedule involves the early-morning direct train which departs Colbert Station in Limerick at 6.30am having to move into a slow lane to Dublin to allow the new Cork morning express to overtake and get into Heuston earlier.

The move means that the Cork passengers get into Heuston Station ahead of the Limerick early-morning travellers, even though the line from Cork to Dublin is 48km longer than the Limerick/Dublin line.