Looks like we’ve been rumbled, lads: People using ticket trick to get cheap trains to Dublin are breaking bye-law.

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  1. So they steal content from this sub then rat everyone out? This isn’t the hard hitting journalism we’ve come to expect from CorkBeo

    “CorkBeo has asked Irish Rail about the system and are waiting for a response.”

  2. Oh I’d like to see a case challenge that by-law like. It would probably only mean IR would up it’s prices to Galway but it seems stupid to attempt to codify price gouging

  3. I’d love to see this stand up in court. “You’re getting a fine because you got off the train too early.

  4. That other rag, Dublin live or whatever it’s called, published the same article. I refuse to give those fuckers another click but it verbatim stole comments from the reddit thread with no credit. Seriously, fuck thise guys.

  5. Haven’t paid for a dart In years, just walk right behind someone through the gate and boom good luck.

    The reason being is because when I was in college I got a fined for €100 because I went 1 stop past where I was ment to get off due to me falling asleep…..ever since then I have never paid for the dart.

  6. The fact it’s cheaper to do it this way, and the fact anyone’s expected to go to Galway via Dublin, is so stupid that I hope everyone who can possibly benefit from this does.

  7. There are literally apps and websites in the uk which automatically find these “tricks” for you in order to reduce your ticket price compared to a direct ticket.

  8. Just incase anyone from CorkBeo is still lurking in this sub, have a think about the “news” you’re reporting. There is actual news out there that needs to be reported.

  9. How the hell they going to find out people did that. They don’t even check tickets most of the time. They going to stand at the station exit asking to see tickets now.

    *EDIT* Forgot to add

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    Go fuck yourself Gavin O’Callaghan

  10. > The price difference was noticed by internet users this week

    internet users? what does the internet have to do with it. it was train users that noticed it and then happened to discuss it with other on the internet after the fact

  11. Using a mobile phone or watching Netflix on a phone/tablet is also prohibited by the same bye-laws:

    “3. (1) No person while upon the railway or in any vehicle shall to the annoyance of any other person or if requested not to do so by an authorised person, sing, perform on any musical or other instrument or use any gramophone, record player, tape recorder or portable wireless or television apparatus.”

    [https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1984/si/109/made/en/print](https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1984/si/109/made/en/print)

  12. I remember many years ago for a short while,that it was cheaper to get a return ticket to Dublin than a single ticket

    “ can I have a return ticket to Dublin please,I swear I’m coming back “

  13. You can do it on airlines too, but they pitch an utter fit of they catch you since boarding is tracked and it won’t work with checked baggage either since that’ll either keep going to the destination or hold everything up when it has to get yeeted from the plane because thats how Lockerbie and Air India got blowed up

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