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IRISH RAIL USERS taking the train to the south-east for the long weekend won’t be able to buy beer on some services today – or any Friday in future.
Iarnród Éireann is banning the consumption of alcohol on some Friday afternoon trains from Dublin Heuston to Waterford.
The ban comes following complaints from customers about anti-social behaviour from groups on those trains.
“We have had a fairly high number of incidents on this particular route on Fridays with groups – be they stags or hens, or other sets of groups, travelling to the likes of Carlow, Kilkenny or Waterford,” Iarnród Éireann spokesman Barry Kenny told TheJournal.ie.
“It’s just become too frequent,” he said. “Obviously it’s relatively rare, but occasionally on train services people do consume so much alcohol and become a nuisance for other customers.”
While such incidents had been treated as if they were isolated in the past, the train operator said it had now decided to act “for the benefit of other customers”.
As a result, the 13:15 and 15:10 trains from Heuston to Waterford on Fridays – serving towns including Newbridge, Bagnelstown and Kilkenny – will not sell alcohol to customers, and people bringing alcohol on board will not be allowed to consume it.
An alcohol ban had already been in place for some services from the south-east back to Dublin on Sunday afternoons, for similar reasons.
Kenny said there were no plans to abolish alcohol sales on all trains, however, commenting that some people enjoyed the ability to have a quiet drink in moderation if taking the train to other parts of the country.
“As a general principle we don’t like having to put these kinds of restrictions in,” Kenny added.
“Most people, if they have a drink on board – whether it be purchased on the train or brought on board – “do so in moderation and with respect for others,” he said.
Kenny said Iarnród Éireann would continue to extend alcohol bans if antisocial behaviour became problematic on other routes.
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He’ll be out by the weekend.Otherwise the cartel will cause havoc.
@Kieran Byrne: did he really have much of a life choice though in fairness. Not condoning what he did but his life was kinda laid out for him.
Washington accuses the cartel of exploiting the opioid epidemic and introducing fentanyl yet they created the market with a series of laws making it near impossible for doctors to prescribe opioids. The rug was pulled from chronic pain patients and anyone with a prescription opioid addiction overnight. In the years following, the black market predictably exploded and just as predictably, so have the deaths which continue to rise year on year at a staggering rate. This is what happens when we create unregulated markets for criminals gangs to run and profit from. At some point we’re going to have to grow up and accept that the war on drugs is a failure on every conceivable level. Drugs won and huge numbers are dying while we wait for politicians to catch up. It’s obscene and it’s criminal.
@Declan Doherty: if you have not seen it, watch the Tv series ‘dopesick’ starring Michael Keaton. It is very good drama about opioid addiction
@James Beattie: Been meaning to watch it. Is it on Netflix?
This war on drugs is lost……..let’s have limited legitimacy and put this cartels out a business..over to you joe,America are the main buyers legalisation has worked when tried.something has to be done to stop the 100,000 + death’s
Arrest the rich who are using and you’ll stop the flow
@Paul Gorry: what do you mean, arrest the middle class? Sounds like the new order put forth by Xi
@Ian James Burgess, it would cost too much. I see Prince Harry admitted taking it, will he be arrested or locked up.
@Tomaldo: nope, he’ll be applauded as the refreshing take on monarchy, even though we know he essentially supported criminals, yes folks everytime you buy cocaine I hate to tell you… But….
Getting murdered for not singing at The Mouses wedding!!!! What would he do to Daniel O’Donnell ?
@Pete O’Reilly: ask him to fix his boiler
@kevin mc cormack: Daniel is not gas certified Kevin. Me granny only told me yesterday.
@SPQH, then why not change the law?
@Stephen Walshe, then he’ll be replaced by another smelly rat
Smelly little rat got caught he should be hung in public.
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