WITH JUST FOUR days to go until the centenary celebrations of the Easter Rising kick in proper Bus Éireann has announced that it will lay on extra services to and from the capital.
Up to 600,000 visitors are expected to pass in and out of Dublin over the course of Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, while gardaí have urged people to use public transport for their journeys.
Easter Sunday will see an “enhanced timetable” operating on the following routes:
Easter Monday, which will see RTÉ’s enormous commemoration Reflecting the Rising take place, will meanwhile see the equivalent of a Saturday service operating on all the same routes (100X, 101, 103, 105, 109, 111, 115/A,120, 126 and 133) with the exception of the 132 Dublin-Rosslare service.
The company’s Expressway intercity services will run as normal.
However, extra services will also be laid on between Dublin, Dublin Airport, and Belfast on the X1 route until Saturday 2 April.
The bumper celebration planned for certain parts of the city will see some roads closing (most significantly O’Connell Street which will close from this Thursday 24 until Tuesday 29 March), and many different routes operating from alternative stops, while services that normally operate via O’Connell Street will now use Gardiner Street instead.
These bus stops will move locations for the weekend:
More information regarding the company’s Rising weekend services can be accessed here.
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