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Late night Dart and commuter trains back for Christmas and New Year

Late night services will have security personnel on board to ensure customer safety.

LATE NIGHT DART and Dundalk and Maynooth commuter services are back on the weekends in the run-up to Christmas.

The services will start from Friday 2 December and will also run after Dublin’s New Year’s Eve celebration.

With four weekends of pre-Christmas services, it’s the busiest programme of late-night train services yet provided.

The services will run on the following dates in December:

  • Friday 2 and Saturday 3
  • Thursday 8, Friday 9 and Saturday 10
  • Thursday 15, Friday 16 and Saturday 17
  • Thursday 22 and Friday 23

The services will operate during the following times:

  • 00.30 and 01.30 from Pearse serving all stations to Howth
  • 00.30 and 01.30 from Connolly serving all stations to Greystones
  • 00.40 and 01.40 from Pearse serving Tara St, Connolly, and all stations from Howth Junction to Dundalk
  • 00.20 and 01.50 from Pearse serving all stations to Maynooth

The services will run one hour later on Saturday 31 December (after New Year’s Eve concerts) at:

  • 1.30am and 2.30am from Pearse serving all stations to Howth
  • 1.30am and 2.30am from Connolly serving all stations to Greystones
  • 1.40am and 2.40am from Pearse serving Tara St, Connolly, and all stations from Howth Junction to Dundalk
  • 1.20am and 2.50am from Pearse serving all stations to Maynooth

Fares will be charged at normal DART and Commuter rates and weekly, monthly and annual season tickets are valid on late night services.

Late night services will also have security personnel on board to ensure customer safety.

A spokesperson for Iarnród Éireann said “We’re looking forward to running late night DART and Commuter services this Christmas and New Year.

We have expanded services further this year, and looking forward to welcoming Christmas partygoers on board for a journey home which will be safe and help save money at an expensive time of year.

Read: “Substantial once-off” fare increase for some rail commuters in the Dublin region “unavoidable”>

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    Sep 30th 2018, 9:31 AM

    Very sad. His poor family. rip

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    Mute Fiona Krijnen
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    Sep 30th 2018, 10:25 AM

    God rest him god help his mum and dad

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    Mute Donnacha Bhoicaire
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    Sep 30th 2018, 10:30 AM

    Tertible tragedy. Condolences
    Shane Ross spouting on about the safety of an MMA event yesterday…music festivals can be just as dangerous

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    Sep 30th 2018, 10:41 AM

    @Donnacha Bhoicaire: this has nothing to do with mma or shane Ross, walking down the street can be dangerous but getting in an octagon is putting your own life in danger
    Going to a music festival or a concert in the 3 or a just about anything else can only lead to your death thru unfortunate circumstances
    Stop trolling

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    Mute Dnomsed
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    Sep 30th 2018, 10:53 AM

    @Donnacha Bhoicaire:
    Total nonsense to suggest attending a festival is dangerous. Living is dangerous cause eventually you die. Have a great time before that happens. Very tragic for this man’s family and friends

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    Sep 30th 2018, 12:17 PM

    Very unfortunate, but most likely a drug overdose. Most 19 year olds think their body can handle anything.. but it might also be peer pressure that led to this unfortunate end. I don’t know if good parenting alone can help in avoiding these type of deaths?

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    Sep 30th 2018, 12:26 PM

    @kartz: Was thinking along the same lines, headline possibly missing a ‘p’ but we’ll see with post mortem results.

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    Sep 30th 2018, 12:38 PM

    @kartz: why would anyone comment on parenting? Just offer your condolences and shut up.
    Poor family. RIP.

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    Sep 30th 2018, 12:59 PM

    @Dearbhla Russell: If you had even a bird’s brain, you’d have understood that I’m talking about peer pressure. I said good parenting alone can’t possibly prevent these incidents. I wonder if people like you only exist to express “RIP”, instead of addressing the problem’s root cause?

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    Sep 30th 2018, 1:20 PM

    @kartz:
    “Most likely an overdose”
    Jump to conclusions why don’t you. Or do you know something the rest of us don’t?

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    Sep 30th 2018, 1:44 PM

    @James Joseph Superior Power: “Most likely” is not the same as “Certainly”. I’m just saying out loud what many people may have in their minds. The point I was trying to make is not so much about this specific person, but about the the dangers of peer pressure on vulnerable teens.

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    Sep 30th 2018, 2:22 PM

    @kartz: Unfortunately I was in Blanchardstown A&E all last night and up to 9am this morning. 5 young men attending this event were brought. This young man sadly lost his life, 2 very serious in ICU, 1 in general care sick but safe and 1 released home. That’s the full context. It wasn’t food poison! Seen family members trauma. Their lives forever changed.

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    Sep 30th 2018, 3:34 PM

    @kartz: Inappropriate hurtful comments no matter what context you try put it into.

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    Sep 30th 2018, 5:57 PM

    @kartz:
    Wrong time and place to make such a point.
    I would imagine most people would have their minds on the young man’s family and friends.

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    Sep 30th 2018, 10:30 AM

    So very sad may he Rest In Peace. My own son attended that. Horrible worst nightmare for any parent to bear!

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    Mute Sharon O'sullivan Gerhardt
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    Sep 30th 2018, 10:31 AM

    So very sad may he Rest In Peace. My own son attended that. Horrible worst news for any parent to hear

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    Sep 30th 2018, 11:47 PM

    Close the comment section

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    Sep 30th 2018, 6:52 PM

    So upsetting. That event should be scrapped it’s drug central. Probably the cause of this death RIP

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    Oct 1st 2018, 8:21 AM

    RIP young man

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