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LAST UPDATE | 12 Oct 2021
YOUNG PEOPLE AGED between 19 and 23 are receiving a 50% discount on public transport fares across the network.
A total of €25 million was announced for youth travel cards as part of the Budget today along with a €1.4 billion package to upgrade the public transport system.
Currently, student fares are up to 30% cheaper than adult fares. Today’s announcement means the discount will be bumped up to 50% from next year. Child fare rates currently cover children up to the age of 18.
However, the new scheme will not just be for students, but all young people in the age cohort.
“This card will be available to any person between the ages of 19 and 23 and will allow them to avail of a 50% discount on fares across the transport network,” Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Michael McGrath said today.
Transport Minister Eamon Ryan is understood to be eager to get young people to stick with public transport, and believes such discounts will be habit-forming for young people.
Due to the rising cost of living, it is hoped that the travel discounts will go some way in helping young people keep money in their pockets.
Speaking at the launch of the Government’s new National Development Plan last week, Ryan promised a two-to-one spend ratio between public transport and road infrastructure as part of Ireland’s climate goals.
But while the Government wishes to encourage people onto public transport and away from cars, Ryan admitted there was little prospect of reducing fares in the short-term for all passengers.
During lockdown, the Government invested in heavily in public transport companies which were unable to operate to keep them afloat.
He said: “We had to fill that gap with a huge investment, to cover the PSO (public service obligation), to keep the companies going.
“Now as we come out we have a real problem, because we see car traffic coming back, but people are still slow on public transport.
“Our public transport revenues are not rising as fast as we would like and we’re going to be in a tight budget situation.”
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Cool. I know what I’ll be watching tonight.
All thanks to the communist principles of Kim Jung Un …… Maybe socialism aint so bad !
The journal is now an advertising platform of torrents.eu
Those pesky North Koreans trying to destroy the world one torrent at a time! Oh the humanity
All available on showbox..Thats me sorted for the week..
Check out movie 25
This is a job for Team America and Gary Johnston’s fantastic acting skills.
Unless there is a North Korean working at Sony Studios. These are more than likely advanced screener videos for critics and award purposes that have been leaked out by staff themselves and found their way into the wrong hands.
Screener season is January. Love January.
This has publicity stunt written all over it. “Let’s release 4 rubbish films and blame it on a hack from the country our possibly good film is about. That will stir up free advertising”. And it has, reading this and other articles.
Fury is a class film anto oscar material
Apart from Annie they’re all films with legit Oscar intentions. Mr Turner played in the Cannes film festival and Timothy Spall will likely get a nominations for Best Actor.
Someone in Sony will be in deep Sh#t! 5 movies lost to torrents! Cyber Monday eat your heart out!
Good movies, but I haven’t watched em yet sure that’s illegal ;)
It’s actually not (unless they’ve changed the law in the last two years), I checked with INFACT who are in charge of copyright infringement in late 2011.
It’s illegal to download audio (music), however it’s not illegal to download video as long as you don’t distribute it (seed torrents, sharing, burning disks etc).
Personal use is totally legitimate as long as no distribution occurs.
Maybe someone in the journal could verify this with INFACT.
I seed man , actually I don’t that’s against the law ;)
The day is coming where all entertainment will have to be released globally at the same time, people don’t wanna wait for months to see a movie which is spoilt by people on social media giving away the fecking start middle and ending !!!
The ship hits an iceberg and sinks… Oh and jack drowns.
Shame it wasn’t Interstellar. I can’t wait to see that flick
On your own there
Go see it so? It’s on in every cinema in the country.
Actually don’t bother it’s crap
Yeah it’s not great. Fury is one of the best films I’ve seen in a while and worth the price of admission. Worth seeing in the cinema for the better sound.
I live in a foreign country with lovely, but foreign, words
Are they taking requests?
These include unreleased titles “Annie,” “Mr. Turner,” “Still Alice,” and “To Write Love On Her Arms,” as well as World War II drama “Fury.”
Praise the Lord for showbox
Jaysis Fury was woeful,couldn’t be more ridiculous,Saving Private Ryan meets Rambo,Still Alice is very good though,so one of the cast tells me….
It’s a good film let down by its over the top unrealistic ending
The ending did wreck it a bit
It started well and I was enjoying it but descended into farce,for me if the last half hour of a film is a joke you’ve just wasted your time
I recommend Fury and I’m looking forward to American Sniper.
Fury is a great show. Thanks.
Too bad it wasn’t Foxcatcher or Whiplash leaked instead. Can’t wait to see both
Want to see American sniper next, anybody know if I can locate it online yet?
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