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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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Anybody have any idea what’s planned for the actual anniversary next month?
More busses
Meanwhile dozens of Temple Bar establishments are planning on charging €19.16 per pint.
You mean to tell me they don’t already charge that much??
Any idea if Dublin Bus are starting earlier than a normal Sunday? I wouldn’t mind getting myself a half decent spot for the parade that starts at 10
Wonder what she’s looking at
It’s called the Dublin bus website ye thick
@Alan mulvey……she’s looking out for Junkies, Pickpockets and Wino’s that will be in full attendance this weekend
Will they be striking to oppose these plans?
More late buses and drivers driving like lunatics to catch up on time tables, woohoo. But seriously, I was coming down the Enniskillen Road on Saturday coming back from Dublin at 12 at night and a Bus Eireann was up my arse the whole way, I mean right up my arse and I was doing the max speed of 100kph. It was genuinely scary and on some corners I could have lost it. Now imagine being on the bus doing that speed on them roads. Some of the drivers are lunatics.
Let him pass, then took his reg I hope?
I am in the middle of writing a complaint to Bus Eireann and was trying to find out what speed these buses are allowed to do when I came across your comment and incredibly my complaint is about the same route and same issue but opposite direction. He even had the audacity to make gestures suggesting that I was in the wrong when he tried but failed to overtake. It is incredibly sacry when one of these things comes hurtling up behind you when you know they are going faster than you and a hell of a lot faster than they are allowed to.
Dublin bus have loads of extra shuttle buses on Sunday as far as I’m aware
They certainly do, im hoping for loads of overtime!
So this article is; It’s going to be busy, so there’ll be more busses?!
Stop the press! Business increases service due to increased demand!!!
Thats nice of them because the Luas wont be running !!
Luas most certainly is running this weekend.
Alright Dave !
You know the outcome of the Luas drivers ballot before it takes place?……..very insightful of you..
I must get my lotto numbers off you this weekend also !
News flash… People are gonna do the job they are paid well to do.
Serves you clowns right for living in the kip. Depending on a bunch of Dublin tricks to get about
Yes they are!
Nice change from the usual curtailed services usually run on a Sunday or bank holiday… Pity it doesn’t affect intercity services
*** Ratoath
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