DART Services Suspended Connolly-Greystones Until Monday for Works
DART services between Connolly and Greystones are suspended until Monday for essential Irish Rail engineering works, impacting all route stations. Rail Users Ireland criticizes the timing during a busy event weekend, but Irish Rail will provide extra services for major events.
DART services between Dublin’s Connolly station and Greystones, Co Wicklow, are suspended from today until Monday due to scheduled engineering works by Irish Rail on the coastal line. This affects all stations on the route, with replacement bus transfers operating. Additionally, the line between Drogheda and Dundalk will be closed from Saturday to Monday.
Rail Users Ireland has criticized the timing, citing repeated disruptions during busy leisure weekends. However, Irish Rail stated it will run extra services to accommodate demand from major events this June bank holiday weekend, including the Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon (28,000 participants), Forbidden Fruit music festival (15,000 daily attendees), Bloom gardening festival, and concerts at St Anne’s Park (20,000 concertgoers for CMAT and Snow Patrol).
Mark Gleeson of Rail Users Ireland highlighted the increasing unreliability for passengers and businesses during summer weekends. Irish Rail confirmed these works, which include track renewal and overhead line replacement, are essential for long-term network reliability and safety. Similar southside DART closures will not occur again until mid-September.