Ear-splitting experience on the mainline train
On a separate issue also related to Iarnród Eireann I recently took the train from Dublin to Cork. It stopped at the usual stations.
At each stop the driver switched on the tannoy system to announce the station. What you would think was an easy process turned into absolute farce worthy of a Carry On Engine Driver film.
The noise from the tannoy was more like an explosion and the announcements were totally incoherent.
A party of Japanese people, I’m sure, thought they had inadvertently boarded the Bengal Express.
Maybe it is the policy of Iarnród Eireann to enshrine Percy French’s old song Are You Right There Michael as part of the folksy service offered.
If so, they should charge accordingly. Let’s hope somebody in the company can bring it on a hundred years.
Peter O’Donoghue
Mount Oval
Rochestown
Cork.
