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An Iarnrod Eireann spokesperson said this was their first wedding party on the city's famous light-rail line, but they are looking at offering the service in future.

IT was one train they simply could not miss.

A committed green couple yesterday made sure they got to their wedding on time -- and saved on their carbon footprint -- by taking a DART to the ceremony.

Josephine McDonnell, originally from Blackrock in Dublin, and Jim Sheer, from Australia, were joined by family and friends.

They left Dun Laoghaire station just before 10am in a specially decorated carriage.

The pair, who met in Vietnam in August 2004, travelled to Grand Canal Dock, where they walked to the nearby registry office to seal their commitment.

With them were daughters Matilda (2) and Roisin (11 months), and members of Jim's family -- who travelled from Adelaide for the big day.

The decision to ignore the convention of taking a car to the ceremony came naturally.

"We are gentle greenies and when we decided we were going to get married in the registry office, the easiest and most sensible thing to do was to get the train. The car option was such a bad idea," said Josephine.

Jim, who works for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, said you have to "practise what you preach".

"We didn't think of any other options. We are lucky enough to live near the train station and there was one near to the registry office at the other end so it seemed to make sense," he said.

After the registry office ceremony, attended by 32 guests, the party got back on the DART with their return tickets and went to Dun Laoghaire Yacht Club for their reception.

They have also opted to save on their carbon footprint by going the short distance to Powerscourt, Co Wicklow for their three-day honeymoon.

An Iarnrod Eireann spokesperson said this was their first wedding party on the city's famous light-rail line, but they are looking at offering the service in future.

"We are gentle greenies" who met in Vietnam :pac:

markpb

An Iarnrod Eireann spokesperson said this was their first wedding party on the city's famous light-rail line, but they are looking at offering the service in future.

The Dart is a light rail line now?


Hang on.. the Dart is famous now!?

FlameoftheWest

LOL! This is like something out of the onion. A pair of total self-rightous hypocrites as are all these "carbon footprint" gob****es:

and saved on their carbon footprint -- by taking a DART to the ceremony.

Josephine McDonnell, originally from Blackrock in Dublin, and Jim Sheer, from Australia, were joined by family and friends.

They left Dun Laoghaire station just before 10am in a specially decorated carriage.

The pair, who met in Vietnam in August 2004, travelled to Grand Canal Dock, where they walked to the nearby registry office to seal their commitment.

With them were daughters Matilda (2) and Roisin (11 months), and members of Jim's family -- who travelled from Adelaide for the big day.

The decision to ignore the convention of taking a car to the ceremony came naturally.

"We are gentle greenies and when we decided we were going to get married in the registry office, the easiest and most sensible thing to do was to get the train. The car option was such a bad idea," said Josephine.

Jim, who works for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, said you have to "practise what you preach".

djpbarry

FlameoftheWest wrote: »

LOL! This is like something out of the onion. A pair of total self-rightous hypocrites as are all these "carbon footprint" gob****es:

With them were daughters Matilda (2) and Roisin (11 months), and members of Jim's family -- who travelled from Adelaide for the big day.

Now, now - I'm sure they did the entire journey by rail.

Judgement Day

markpb wrote: »

The Dart is a light rail line now?


Hang on.. the Dart is famous now!?

Well if you insist on being pedantic it is the DART line not Dart. DART is short for Dublin Area Rapid Transit and Luas is the Irish word for speed hence no need for capitals, CIE is always spelt CIE not Cie as it is short for Coras Iompair Eireann. You don't write for the paper of record by any chance?

Judgement Day

FlameoftheWest wrote: »

LOL! This is like something out of the onion. A pair of total self-rightous hypocrites as are all these "carbon footprint" gob****es:

You're very scratchy this weather, get away down to the pub like yours truly and watch the Heineken Cup, with a feed of Guinness and you'll feel more charitably disposed towards the Greenies.

FlameoftheWest

djpbarry wrote: »

Now, now - I'm sure they did the entire journey by rail.

Jim works as a civil servant - you see these higher mortals create and then force this Carbon lifestyle on us...it does not apply to them naturally.

Just like working, doing your job professionally, dealing with economic hardship. This is only for the rest of us. Public sector workers like Jim can make up their own rules...

I am flabbergasted by the incredible hypocracy of the article. I keep thinking someone from the Indo is going to admit it was done for a laugh. Are these people actually for real!

Atlantic Dawn

This stunt most likely caused delays on the line for facilitating this couples transport wet dream. Utter disgrace that a service not offered by Irish Rail to Joe Soap seems to get offered to Jim simply because he works for Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.

FlameoftheWest

Judgement Day wrote: »

You're very scratchy this weather, get away down to the pub like yours truly and watch the Heineken Cup, with a feed of Guinness and you'll feel more charitably disposed towards the Greenies.

Honestly this is the funnist thing I have read in years. You could not make this up. God bless these Carbon Footprint lunatics are their mind blowing double standards... There as a deluded at the catholic church when it comes to the whole sex scadals. Just can't see what hypocrites they are. Amazing!

FlameoftheWest

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

This stunt most likely caused delays on the line for facilitating this couples transport wet dream. Utter disgrace that a service not offered by Irish Rail to Joe Soap seems to get offered to Jim simply because he works for Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.

Seems to be a habit with IE more and more. Special perks for non commuters is the way to go. The more appalling the rail network becomes the more "altuistic" Irish Rail management become. Things like this are sign of just how looney behind these scenes this organisation is.

Just further proof that Irish Rail are an increasingly disturbed organisation which has completely lost touch of what it's actual core function and purpose it. In fact they are running away from running railways now. This kind of thing is becoming their modus operadi and it is very interesting to observe.

It reminds of a psychopath who gets caught caught stealing a painting from someone's house and then claims to be doing the owner a favour because it didn't match with curtains.

Trainspotter specials on the WRC, now this. Irish Rail managment are so not in control and for reasons I think we will find out soon are behaving like the final hours in Hitler's bunker as the Red Army shells are landing around them. Somehting is up behind the scenes at IE and it'll blow soon I feel...

What we are seeing here is the psychological breakdown of a profoundly dysfunctonal mangement structure whipping out ANYTHING which will make them look in any way functional. There is a reason for this. Soon we may know.

The rat is in the corner.

Transportuser09

FlameoftheWest wrote: »

Seems to be a habit with IE more and more. Special perks for non commuters is the way to go. The more appalling the rail network becomes the more "altuistic" Irish Rail management become. Things like this are sign of just how looney behind these scenes this organisation is.

Just further proof that Irish Rail are an increasingly disturbed organisation which has completely lost touch of what it's actual core function and purpose it. In fact they are running away from running railways now. This kind of thing is becoming their modus operadi and it is very interesting to observe.

It reminds of a psychopath who gets caught caught stealing a painting from someone's house and then claims to be doing the owner a favour because it didn't match with curtains.

Trainspotter specials on the WRC, now this. Irish Rail managment are so not in control and for reasons I think we will find out soon are behaving like the final hours in Hitler's bunker as the Red Army shells are landing around them. Somehting is up behind the scenes at IE and it'll blow soon I feel...

What we are seeing here is the psychological breakdown of a profoundly dysfunctonal mangement structure whipping out ANYTHING which will make them look in any way functional. There is a reason for this. Soon we may know.

The rat is in the corner.

You really need to get a hobby. Doesn't have to be rail related, probably best stay away from that. Maybe knitting or something.

dowlingm

Whoa folks. As you know I'm not one of the reflexive defend IE at all costs brigade like some on here, but it doesn't seem like IE did very much here at all apart from valeting a carriage. There is no mention of delays of any kind.

Now wait a sec dowlingm, I hear some of you say, what about the labour and other costs of doing that valeting - to which I answer: look at the free publicity.

Compare to the event on another thread for which IE didn't even get a few column inches to pay for the valeting of an entire out-of-service set and two testing runs.

Feck it, for free publicity they should make the Alstoms into a permanent wedding train to run only on weekends!

* edit to note: for my wedding we chartered a TTC bus to take us and the family/bridesmaids etc from the church about 3km to where the reception was on, after the original and more conventional limo plan fell through. It was actually a pleasant experience (obviously they somehow manage to avoid rostering their grumpy drivers on it). A lot of parties are held on streetcars around Halloween and the like.

Run_to_da_hills

dowlingm wrote: »

Feck it, for free publicity they should make the Alstoms into a permanent wedding train to run only on weekends!

Push pull converts at that, they couldn't have an unreliable wedding service.

corktina

Judgement Day wrote: »

Well if you insist on being pedantic it is the DART line not Dart. DART is short for Dublin Area Rapid Transit and Luas is the Irish word for speed hence no need for capitals, CIE is always spelt CIE not Cie as it is short for Coras Iompair Eireann. You don't write for the paper of record by any chance?

Im sure its the DORT isnt it? Thats what they called it when i was in D4 recently im sure...

unit 1

So how did they get "carbon neutrally" home from vietnam where they met, not to mention his relatives getting here from oz carbon neutrally :rolleyes:

FlameoftheWest

unit 1 wrote: »

So how did they get "carbon neutrally" home from vietnam where they met, not to mention his relatives getting here from oz carbon neutrally :rolleyes:

Just sums these types up perfectly. They are so smug and self-rightous they do not even see their own spellbinding hypocracy.

That's before we get to the truth that the Climategate event exposed the whole carbon con and the fraudulent scientists behind it as nothing other than wraped stats and outright lies. They even admitted it when they were caught red handed.

The fact is oul Jim has to do things like this to keep this Man Made Global Warming hoax going or he is out of a job.

DWCommuter

Environmentalism = Sh1T is biodegradable in more ways than one.:D

patrickmooney

My sister was going to do this 20 years ago. We had all the prices and commitment to put a red carpet outside Howth Junction Dart station. The entire wedding party 250+ were to travel from the local community to the afters in Killiney. IE were doing a great deal at it was going to be used as a promotional stunt too

But it fell through. My sister opted for the traditional Dublin Bus Wedding Bus option.

Run_to_da_hills

patrickmooney wrote: »

My sister was going to do this 20 years ago. We had all the prices and commitment to put a red carpet outside Howth Junction Dart station. The entire wedding party 250+ were to travel from the local community to the afters in Killiney. IE were doing a great deal at it was going to be used as a promotional stunt too

But it fell through. My sister opted for the traditional Dublin Bus Wedding Bus option.

You would have needed a fleet of busses to transport 250+

Cookie_Monster

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

You would have needed a fleet of busses to transport 250+

ah only 3. Each took around 87 back then (with standing). comfortab :Dle

Run_to_da_hills

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

ah only 3. Each took around 87 back then (with standing). comfortab :Dle

They would want to be really skimping on things to allow any of their guests stand on the bus.

icdg

Judgement Day wrote: »

Well if you insist on being pedantic it is the DART line not Dart. DART is short for Dublin Area Rapid Transit

Irish Rail dispensed with the longer name when the last livery repaint...haven't seen the words "Dublin Area Rapid Transit" spelt out on a train in years!

To address the topic, I think if it earns Irish Rail a bit of money and can be done **without** interfering with the timetable (important!) there is no real harm in it. I'd have doubts about the latter though...

dRNk SAnTA

The begrudgery in this thread! :eek:

Transportuser09

dRNk SAnTA wrote: »

The begrudgery in this thread! :eek:

As always...

jojomcd

Here's how it went - I emailed IE to say that me, Jim, our daughters and our guests were going to catch the train to the registry office and did they want to make a fuss about it?
We would have caught the train whether IE made a fuss or not and we knew IE wanted to use the event for their benefit and we didn't mind. No-one knew what Jim's job was until the day.
A tv interviewer tried to suggest the whole wedding was "green" but I corrected him to say maybe the transport and "staying in Ireland" honeymoon were green (should I have categorically listed the non-green aspects of the day?). We never described ourselves as "committed greenies" however, the newspapers didn't ask us to proof-read anything before they published their articles. I would have corrected it because I think that phrase is misleading. It implied that we're dedicated and wholly conscientious eco-worriers, which we aren't. Hardly hypocritical if we didn't claim to be something we're not.
Cheers, Bridezilla

schemingbohemia

Transportuser09 wrote: »

You really need to get a hobby. Doesn't have to be rail related, probably best stay away from that. Maybe knitting or something.

maybe learning to spell might be a better use of their time

Cookie_Monster

jojomcd wrote: »

Here's how it went - I emailed IE to say that me, Jim, our daughters and our guests were going to catch the train to the registry office and did they want to make a fuss about it?
We would have caught the train whether IE made a fuss or not and we knew IE wanted to use the event for their benefit and we didn't mind. No-one knew what Jim's job was until the day.
A tv interviewer tried to suggest the whole wedding was "green" but I corrected him to say maybe the transport and "staying in Ireland" honeymoon were green (should I have categorically listed the non-green aspects of the day?). We never described ourselves as "committed greenies" however, the newspapers didn't ask us to proof-read anything before they published their articles. I would have corrected it because I think that phrase is misleading. It implied that we're dedicated and wholly conscientious eco-worriers, which we aren't. Hardly hypocritical if we didn't claim to be something we're not.
Cheers, Bridezilla

Ah, but how can we believe this any more than the paper?!

jnrjnr01

jojomcd wrote: »

Here's how it went - I emailed IE to say that me, Jim, our daughters and our guests were going to catch the train to the registry office and did they want to make a fuss about it?
We would have caught the train whether IE made a fuss or not and we knew IE wanted to use the event for their benefit and we didn't mind. No-one knew what Jim's job was until the day.
A tv interviewer tried to suggest the whole wedding was "green" but I corrected him to say maybe the transport and "staying in Ireland" honeymoon were green (should I have categorically listed the non-green aspects of the day?). We never described ourselves as "committed greenies" however, the newspapers didn't ask us to proof-read anything before they published their articles. I would have corrected it because I think that phrase is misleading. It implied that we're dedicated and wholly conscientious eco-worriers, which we aren't. Hardly hypocritical if we didn't claim to be something we're not.
Cheers, Bridezilla

I think it was more like that the blushing bride wanted to make a fuss about it not IE

Our man in Havana

Was this train stabled in the bay platform at DL?

Heroditas

jojomcd wrote: »

Here's how it went - I emailed IE to say that me, Jim, our daughters and our guests were going to catch the train to the registry office and did they want to make a fuss about it?
We would have caught the train whether IE made a fuss or not and we knew IE wanted to use the event for their benefit and we didn't mind. No-one knew what Jim's job was until the day.
A tv interviewer tried to suggest the whole wedding was "green" but I corrected him to say maybe the transport and "staying in Ireland" honeymoon were green (should I have categorically listed the non-green aspects of the day?). We never described ourselves as "committed greenies" however, the newspapers didn't ask us to proof-read anything before they published their articles. I would have corrected it because I think that phrase is misleading. It implied that we're dedicated and wholly conscientious eco-worriers, which we aren't. Hardly hypocritical if we didn't claim to be something we're not.
Cheers, Bridezilla

Could Jim not have borrowed one of the electric Noddy cars from his employer for the day?

Cookie_Monster

Heroditas wrote: »

Could Jim not have borrowed one of the electric Noddy cars from his employer for the day?

:D:D

but that would have only got 2 of them about 4 miles