{"id":550413,"date":"2026-06-23T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/550413\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:43:26","slug":"getting-to-and-from-marlay-park-concerts-the-ticket-was-e80-the-taxi-home-was-e70-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/550413\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to and from Marlay Park concerts: \u2018The ticket was \u20ac80 … the taxi home was \u20ac70\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuban Murray paid the same amount for his transport to and from Olivia Dean at Marlay Park<\/a> on Sunday night as he did for his ticket, having paid \u20ac9 to get to the venue and \u20ac70 to get home. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe ticket was only 80 quid, so I will definitely have to plan my next trip out to Marlay Park<\/a>,\u201d the 23-year-old, who works in the charity sector, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarlay Park is a fantastic venue to be at during the concert but everything else outside it doesn\u2019t work very well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to get the 16 bus from town to Marlay Park but it was packed like sardines, you couldn\u2019t move at all to get in. So it wasn\u2019t stopping.\u201d<\/p>\n

He ended up getting a taxi with other people at the bus stop who were heading to the concert which he described as \u201cvery affordable\u201d at \u20ac9 per person, \u201cbut it was coming back that I really had the issue\u201d. <\/p>\n

Murray planned to get the number 16 home to Drumcondra where he is based, but says it was cancelled. He then resorted to trying to get a taxi home. <\/p>\n

\u201cI started hailing them down and they would say \u2018sorry I am booked\u201d and there was one case where a fellah said \u2018I\u2019m booked out to Kildare, the booking is for \u20ac80, how much will ye offer me to cancel it?\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n

Murray would normally expect to pay \u20ac35 for a taxi from Marlay Park to his home, but \u201capparently the traffic was so bad and there was so much congestion in the city he [the taxi driver] had to take the M50\u2033. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had never done that before in a taxi but it doubled the price and brought it up to \u20ac70 and I was really shocked to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ReubanReuban Murray at Olivia Dean in Marlay Park on Saturday <\/p>\n

Orlaith N\u00ed Churrain, a recent bachelor of arts graduate from University of Galway left the concert early due to a negative experience she had two years ago after a Hozier concert when she was \u201cstuck\u201d in Rathfarnham with her friend Holly Maguire. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was insane trying to get home because we stayed for the last song, we were so silly,\u201d N\u00ed Churrain said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had to walk and then ring my best friend\u2019s aunt and uncle to come and collect us. We were there for the guts of an hour-and-a-half after the gig trying to get home before we rang them.\u201d<\/p>\n

This time, the friends left the concert early to get a shuttle bus to Dundrum, before getting the Luas into the city centre. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that we had to leave at the last song, so we were at the corner for a while and we were like \u2018okay let\u2019s go\u2019. We left the gig in the middle of Man I Need. We danced our way out, we didn\u2019t see the Irish dancers, no fireworks, no nothing, but it was grand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OrlaithOrlaith N\u00ed Churrain and her friend Holly Quirke at Olivia Dean in Marlay Park on Saturday <\/p>\n

The pair paid \u20ac262 for two nights\u2019 accommodation in TUD\u2019s student accommodation in Smithfield. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t Olivia Dean we wouldn\u2019t go. It\u2019s stressful because the roads are closed as well. Even if you wanted a lift, it would be a lot to ask,\u201d N\u00ed Churrain said.<\/p>\n

Chloe Barrett, a 24-year-old journalist from Cork, is going to see Florence and the Machine<\/a> at the same venue on Sunday and is \u201cstressed\u201d about transport to and from the event. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have had three people tell me that Marlay Park is the worst place to get to and from for a concert,\u201d Barrett said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have never been before \u2013 I have only been to the 3Arena and the Olympia, so I am nervous. Usually I would get the Aircoach back to Cork at night, but because people have told me that it can take an hour-and-a-half to two hours to get out of there, I probably can\u2019t rely on booking a time for an Aircoach because I would be stranded if I miss it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"ChloeChloe Barrett at Zach Bryan in Cork <\/p>\n

Barrett and her friend have booked Keavan\u2019s Port Hotel on Camden Street for \u20ac243, where they know their pre-booked coach will collect and drop them off. The coach itself was \u20ac20 which Barrett said was good value, \u201cfor the peace of mind more than anything else\u201d. <\/p>\n

The venue, located on a 300-acre public park in Rathfarnham, Dublin, holds a capacity crowd of 40,000 and is set to host several more large concerts this summer including Lewis Capaldi, The Cure, Florence + the Machine, Mumford & Sons and Pitbull.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Dublin Bus said that the service \u201cis employing all available resources\u201d to alleviate the rise in demand due to concerts. <\/p>\n

Dublin Bus will be dispatching chief inspectors on-street who will assist with queries, the spokesman said, but customers are also encouraged to plan their journeys and allow for extra time to get to their destination. <\/p>\n

In addition, Dublin Bus is operating a concert express service which runs direct bus routes to concerts in Marlay Park, Malahide Castle and St Anne\u2019s Park. These can be booked online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are also coaches to Marlay Park provided by JJ Kavanagh departing from Limerick, Nenagh, Roscrea, Portlaoise, Kildare, Clonmel, Callan, Kilkenny, Waterford and Carlow. Further information on those services can be found here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Marathon also runs a private bus service from Earlsfort Terrace bus stop 1013 in Dublin city centre direct to Marlay Park. Tickets can be purchased here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

MCD Productions, the live event promoter behind the Marlay Park gigs, was contacted for comment but did not respond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuban Murray paid the same amount for his transport to and from Olivia Dean at Marlay Park on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,11802,18,13,14,11849,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,229958,235843,5,57331,13421,62849,7,8],"class_list":["post-550413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dublin-bus","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-florence-and-the-machine","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-marlay-park","tag-mcd-promotions","tag-news","tag-olivia-dean","tag-public-transport","tag-rathfarnham","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116800665147009713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}