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Dublin - Cork - how to get home?

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  • 26-05-2008 10:11pm
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    scaryfairy
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭


    hi
    I'll have to get back to Cork tomorrow afternoon, but have no idea how, thanks to the industrial strike it's a bit cut off from the world...Flight is expensive, and cannot be bothered with the bus tbh and was wondering, are there any alternative routes on the train? no contact numbers for irish rail under "contact us" and cannot really figure it out whether the Heuston-Mallow line is working or not? has anyone gone in this direction in the last week?
    thanks a mil
    sf


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    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    dunno how, but is this the new "thumbing"?
    :p


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    #3
    scaryfairy
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭scaryfairy


    wha'???
    oh noooooo :D but not a bad idea


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    mikemac
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    And it's ye Cork people who are to blame for the strike :p

    Get the bus, I don't why "can't be bothered". It's less hassle than planning some rail trip that could leave you stranded.

    Bus Eireann have lovely new coaches and even a bus ticket and some new books from Easons will be cheaper than a train ticket

    Don't know if there is a Dublin-Cork Express service, there probably is.


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    staker
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    i got eircoach last year, wasn't dear,about 18 yo yos. i know it's a bus,but it was really comfy-big seats and good leg room.... it goes from o' connell st to parnell square. good luck:)


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    Jimbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    Going Out From Dublin - Cork
    Select A Flight.
    Regular Fare Adult
    19.99 EUR
    Tue, 27 May 08
    FlightFR9843 08:55 Depart
    09:45 Arrive

    Regular Fare Adult
    14.99 EUR
    Tue, 27 May 08
    FlightFR9845 11:35 Depart
    12:25 Arrive


    Regular Fare Adult
    14.99 EUR
    Tue, 27 May 08
    FlightFR9857 12:05 Depart
    12:55 Arrive

    From Ryanair website, flying aint that expensive


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    scaryfairy
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭scaryfairy


    thanks, for everything. flights are really not that bad, the only problem is that I have a meeting early in the afternoon, and the flight I could take at 6pm or sth is already full, at least was around 80 euro or around when I checked earlier today. I am going up - with Ryanair - in the morning, and need to get back the same day. Have my reasons for not taking the bus, the length of the journey is one of them (4.5 hours??), that's true...


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    #8
    scaryfairy
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭scaryfairy


    just fyi: managed to get home yesterday: took the 3pm Heuston-Cork train, it left more or less on time, dropped us in Mallow around 5.15pm. Staff & buses were already waiting for us, and within ten minutes we were on our way to Cork. We arrived around 6pm or 6.15pm to Kent station. So it wasn't that painful at all and rather well organized and civilized, and still didn't have to spend 4.5 hours on the bus... Thumbs up to whoever was in charge.:)


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