{"id":551407,"date":"2026-06-24T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/551407\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:22:08","slug":"irish-rail-warns-of-severe-disruption-to-north-dublin-commuter-rail-services-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/551407\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Rail warns of severe disruption to north Dublin commuter rail services \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-rail\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-rail\/\">Irish Rail<\/a> has warned there will be severe disruption to commuter rail services into north Dublin during Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish Rail spokesman Barry Kenny said that repairs to overhead line damage at Raheny will see many northside Dart, northern commuter and enterprise services cancelled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There will be no Dart service between Malahide or Howth and Clontarf Road. Trains will operate between Clontarf and Bray\/Greystones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Northern commuter services from Drogheda and Dundalk will terminate at Howth Junction and there will be delays and limited service between Dundalk\/Drogheda and Howth Junction<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Belfast Enterprise services will involve bus transfers between Dublin Connolly and Drogheda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8MAJOR DISRUPTION <br \/>Weds 24th June, throughout morning, ongoing overhead line damage repairs.  <br \/>\u274cNo DART Malahide\/Howth to Clontarf Rd<br \/>\u274cNo Northern Commuter Howth Jctn to Connolly  <br \/>Bus transfer Connolly to Drogheda for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EnterpriseTrain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@EnterpriseTrain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leapcard valid on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TFIupdates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@TFIupdates<\/a> services.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann (@IrishRail) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IrishRail\/status\/2069648191662789102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kenny said Leap cards will be valid on all services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann said the overhead lines at Raheny were damaged before 8.30pm on Tuesday. leading to only one track being available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The spokesman said a decision was taken to defer repairs works due to a concert in Malahide attended by 20,000, to ensure customers could travel home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Repair crews began work shortly after midnight. The cause of the damage is being investigated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Kenny said he was confident that rail services will resume by lunchtime and that there will be services to Malahide for Wednesday evening\u2019s Katy Perry concert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe apologise to everybody who is affected by this. I think if people can make alternative arrangements would be advised to do so,\u201d Kenny told RT\u00c9 Radio\u2019s Morning Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cObviously, potentially as the morning continues, this would affect between 15,000 to 20,000 commuters and that\u2019s obviously a hugely significant volume of people potentially deferring to other modes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAs I say, it does arise from overhead line damage and our crews are working on site to repair but we do expect that this was the entirety of the morning we will have this disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish Rail has warned there will be severe disruption to commuter rail services into north Dublin during Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,52,18,13418,19,17],"class_list":["post-551407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-iarnrod-eireann","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551407","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=551407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}