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LAST UPDATE | 12 Oct 2018
IRISH RAIL HAS confirmed that all services are back operating as normal this morning in the wake of severe disruption due to Storm Callum earlier.
For a time this morning, the DART system was only running between Bray and Malahide due to problems on the line past Howth Junction and at Greystones.
There was also disruption on the Dublin-Belfast line while the 6am Waterford to Dublin train was also delayed after it hit a tree outside Thomastown.
“As Storm Callum passes over Ireland, services across all routes are operating and are subject to some delays due to heavy leaf fall causing low rail adhesion and storm debris on the line,” Irish Rail said in its latest update.
Crews are continuing to clear all all affected areas.
All Bus Éireann services will go ahead as normal, except for the 350 to the Cliffs of Moher, which has been cancelled, and the 401 in Galway, which will operate from stop 6 in Eyre Square (east side).
Dublin Bus services have been operating mostly as normal today, although there were some diversions on the 11 route earlier.
The Luas is operating as normal on both lines.
And there have been a number of cancellations of departing flights at Dublin Airport this morning. Cork and Shannon have been running mostly as scheduled.
Irish Ferries cancelled two Dublin-Holyhead crossings today – the 2am service and the 8.05am. The sailing from Cherbourg in France to Dublin scheduled for this afternoon has been delayed until tomorrow.
Fallen trees on routes around the country were being cleared this morning.
AA Roadwatch reports there are road closures in the Salthill area of Galway, and the Promenade in Tramore is also closed.
Additionally, according to the traffic monitoring service, the Cobh/Fota Rd (R624) remains closed at Carrigaloe due to a mudslide.
I got the Expressway bus home to the shticks from Dublin the other day and I couldn’t get over the number of drivers who were looking at their phones driving along the motorway. Even a couple of truck drivers! You can see it all from high up in the bus. Really scary when you consider we were doing over 100 kph.
@Molly1952:
I’ve seen a fair bit of phone scanning and texting, even tablet or laptop use, by drivers from the top deck of a Dublin Bus on many mornings and evenings.
Driving on the M50 just a few weeks ago I found myself beside a guy with his phone on the steering wheel busily tapping away.
Didn’t some English police force put an officer with a camera into a high truck cab a while back and dish out fines to these type of suicidal/homicidal idiots?
@Michael Kavanagh: the Spanish police do this
Just an observation but aren’t some of the Irish roads designed very badly…
@M3murf™ Rob: Yes .. simple things like the camber of the road on corners. So often sloped the wrong way. Entry and exit roads need a serious rethink as well.
Plus why do we need to have so many twists and turns on new roads. M6 as an example.
@Logan Shepherd: it’s to confuse the Leprechauns, slippy little suckers! Sorry, that’s a flippant remark. We’ll always have accidents however they’re caused, speed, poor driving etc., it’s a how the stars say some of us leave this life (still think the Leprechauns have a lot to answer for).
@Paula Mackie Senior: Yes we will, and you hold on to that sense of humour ..
@Logan Shepherd: they are there on purpose to slow you down
@Ian James Burgess: What is there on purpose? The wrongly sloped cambers or the twists and turns on a 120kph motorway ..
Wtf is going on with people driving like psychopaths? Slow the hell down.
@Windom Earle: Speed isn’t the cause of all accidents and death on our roads, appalling driving standards in this country by both male and female drivers of all ages lead to a lot of the carnage we hear of happening all to often.
@Leonard Barry:
Agreed but there is a big difference between the consequences of an accident at let’s say 50kph and 70kph
@Patrick Nolan: Even 50 and 60 if it’s a pedestrian or cyclist that’s hit.
@Patrick Nolan: same consequences if it’s a cyclist or pedestrian
@Michael Carolan:
Peter:
Agreed.
@Leonard Barry: I agree. There is an arrogance and a total lack of respect for road users in general. Everyone seems to be so impatient and in a hurry that they don’t even see anyone else on the road. They don’t expect the unexpected.
@Marie Prendergast: you can’t ‘expect the unexpected’, that’s the most stupid phrase invented
@Leonard Barry: speeding is appalling driving
@Boeing Lover: well you should expect the unexpected!
@Boeing Lover: To not be surprised by an unusual event. Anything could happen, and probably will. Hope that simplifies it for you!
Why close of the city/n11 etc for a 10k run, when you could easily run it in the phoenix park without any disruption to on a bank holiday weekend in the city, crazy decision.
Drivin into the City last nite up the Malahide Rd. Lad flys past in the Bus lane like a bat out of hell…. weaving in and out of lanes like a madman. He disappeared into the distance. Anyway i sauntered along and 90secs later hit the traffic lights ar fairview strand. Pulled up alongside guess who. Thought to myself weI thought wtf is that all about. Stressing yourself out driving like a headcase….wasting gallons more fuel…. increasing 10 fold your chances of an accident. Absolute madness.
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