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Irish Rail Child Tickets

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  • 11-02-2011 9:07pm
    #1
    thisisadamh
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I am 17 and I am now buying Student tickets instead of Child tickets. Which is nearly twice the price!!! Now I think it is ludicrous, why is the child age cut off off at 15? My financial situation have not changed, I dont have a job, I am still relying on my parents. According to the government I am still a child, if I do get a job (which I cant because I am still in school and dont have time as it is) I would be getting a reduced rate because I am not over 18 and I cant vote because I am not an adult according to the government, but according to Irish Rail, a government owned company says I am an adult. So why do I have to pay €1 off the adult price which is twice the child price.


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    #2
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    weh weh weh....

    suck it up. has to go up at some point.


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    #3
    thisisadamh
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭thisisadamh


    stupidusername wrote: »
    weh weh weh....

    suck it up. has to go up at some point.

    I am under 18 still, I dont have a job, my situation has not changed just because I turned 16. According to the gov I am still a child. WTF


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    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    thisisadamh wrote: »
    I am under 18 still, I dont have a job, my situation has not changed just because I turned 16. According to the gov I am still a child. WTF

    Ah! well why didn't you say the first time

    oh wait...

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    thisisadamh wrote: »
    Hi, I am 17 and I am now buying Student tickets instead of Child tickets.
    thisisadamh wrote: »
    my situation has not changed just because I turned 16. According to the gov I am still a child. WTF

    am, what age are you? make up your mind


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    TheZohanS
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    thisisadamh wrote: »
    I am under 18 still, I dont have a job, my situation has not changed just because I turned 16. According to the gov I am still a child. WTF

    Life isn't always fair; sometimes you're the hammer, sometimes you're the nail....

    ..if it was me I'd buy the cheaper fair and chance it.


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    darragh16
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭darragh16


    These Celtic tiger kids, still lookin for an easy ride... on a train


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    thisisadamh
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭thisisadamh


    stupidusername wrote: »
    Ah! well why didn't you say the first time

    oh wait...

    edit:




    am, what age are you? make up your mind

    I am 17 now, turned 16 last year. The child ticket is valid for up to 15 years of age. When I said 16 I was referring to last year.


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,996 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    thisisadamh wrote: »
    I am 17 now, turned 16 last year. The child ticket is valid for up to 15 years of age. When I said 16 I was referring to last year.

    Didn't you read the small-print, where it states that they are a bunch of state-sponsored robbing bastards, and can charge whatever they like?


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    KM88
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭KM88


    stupidusername wrote: »
    Ah! well why didn't you say the first time

    oh wait...

    edit:




    am, what age are you? make up your mind

    You having trouble with the math stupid?
    He/she is 17 - seems obvious to me.


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    Ghost Estate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Ghost Estate


    Irish Rail are terribly overpriced unless you happen to get a sweet deal in advance online.

    but thats another story...


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    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    KM88 wrote: »
    You having trouble with the math stupid?
    He/she is 17 - seems obvious to me.

    No. If you read back over what she said, you'll see that she didn't explain it.
    Ghost Estate wrote: »
    Irish Rail are terribly overpriced unless you happen to get a sweet deal in advance online.

    but thats another story...

    yeah there are some good deals online. generally have to book it far enough in advance though. and some lines it's not worth bothering with.


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    thisisadamh
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭thisisadamh


    stupidusername wrote: »
    No. If you read back over what she said, you'll see that she didn't explain it.



    yeah there are some good deals online. generally have to book it far enough in advance though. and some lines it's not worth bothering with.

    I am 17 now, but I was talking about a few months ago as well when I was 16. I am a he by the way.

    I will email them and see what deals they can do me, because I have to go to Galway every Saturday for the next 2 months because of a school project.


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    KM88
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭KM88


    stupidusername wrote: »
    No. If you read back over what she said, you'll see that she didn't explain it.

    Agreed, she didn't spell it out but she did give enough info for competent students (or ex-students) to know she is under 18 and older than 16 - ergo, she is 17 - as I said, simples!:)


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,168 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    OP has a fair point.

    If you're prepared to use the retort "suck it up" every time someone had a gripe with the government or a state sponsored body, why the bloody hell do you expect organisations to change or improve? No wonder Ireland is in a bloody mess.

    Want me to pass the lube?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,312 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Ghost Estate wrote: »
    Irish Rail are terribly overpriced unless you happen to get a sweet deal in advance online.
    Actually, child and schoolchild fares on Irish Rail are severely, possibly even inappropriately discounted.

    The weekly school child fare from Balbriggan, north county Dublin to Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow is about 5 euro, about hte same as an adult single ticket.


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