Have our train stations come under British rule?

Atlantic Dawn

I notice there's an announcement to stay behind the yellow line over the PA systems in Pearse and Connolly Stations by a woman with an English accent and the announcement is only in English. Have our train stations come under British rule the last couple of weeks?

dxhound2005

I always call them railway stations.

Reputable Rog

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I notice there's an announcement to stay behind the yellow line over the PA systems in Pearse and Connolly Stations by a woman with an English accent and the announcement is only in English. Have our train stations come under British rule the last couple of weeks?

Last time I checked English is the language the overwhelming majority of people in this country speak.
But I get what your saying, time to have announcements in Polish as well.
They could pilot it in Amiens Street and Kingsbridge and then roll it out to Glanmire Station.

Do you mean Westland row?

mad muffin

I don’t use public transport, so I wouldn’t know.

Turnipman

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I notice there's an announcement to stay behind the yellow line over the PA systems in Pearse and Connolly Stations by a woman with an English accent and the announcement is only in English. Have our train stations come under British rule the last couple of weeks?

I assume that you mean Westland Row and Amiens Street stations?

Would you be a dear and toddle up to Kingsbridge Station tomorrow and let us know the story there?

Cheers.

dxhound2005

Proszę pozostać za żółtą linią.

James 007

'Mind The Gap' :rolleyes:

somefeen

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I always call them railway stations.

I suppose you calls it boxing day as well? Oh yeah I know your type "oh its boxing day in the British isles, let go down to railway station and listen to the queens speech after a game if cricket and a glass of Pimms!"
Treasonous. Charles Haughey would be turning in his grave!!

jamesbere

That's how the British will take us back, take over our train stations, before you know it black cabs everywhere and red post boxes

Reputable Rog

somefeen wrote: »

I suppose you calls it boxing day as well? Oh yeah I know your type "oh its boxing day in the British isles, let go down to railway station and listen to the queens speech after a game if cricket and a glass of Pimms!"
Treasonous. Charles Haughey would be turning in his grave!!

Trains don't run on Christmas or Boxing Day so there's no point going to the railway station, ground conditions aren't great for Cricket at the moment and Pimms is to be enjoyed in the summer at the village fete.

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I notice there's an announcement to stay behind the yellow line over the PA systems in Pearse and Connolly Stations by a woman with an English accent and the announcement is only in English. Have our train stations come under British rule the last couple of weeks?

The way Irish rail treated the rural stations they closed we might have been better if that whole area was privatised to begin with.

I suppose the Romanians will be giving out stink about the lack of As Gaeilge. One lad was so incensed his drink driving summons wasn't delivered to him in Irish that he successfully appealed his conviction on those grounds

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/drinkdrive-cases-adjourned-after-irishlanguage-legal-claim-31106384.html

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Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I notice there's an announcement to stay behind the yellow line over the PA systems in Pearse and Connolly Stations by a woman with an English accent and the announcement is only in English. Have our train stations come under British rule the last couple of weeks?

I heard an announcement at an English station last year by someone with an Irish accent, so maybe we swapped.

I have heard announcements in Dublin with Irish, English, and Nigerian accents. So, your assertion is nonsensical in the extreme.

As for using English only. I doubt there was one Irish passenger boarding a train in Dublin this week who could not understand English. If they are to use any language other than English then it should be Polish.

Atlantic Dawn

I was more coming at it from an angle of why couldn't someone with an Irish accent get the gig and not Irish Rail making the decision to go with some snotty sounding stuck up posh English wagon sounding voice. They did Republicanise their mainline train logos recently after all.

MilesMorales1

I'm furious about this. Furious. I am going to write to my local member of parliament and get them to take this all the way to the prime minister! OI, ANDY!

Turnipman

Deleted User wrote: »

I suppose the Romanians will be giving out stink about the lack of As Gaeilge. One lad was so incensed his drink driving summons wasn't delivered to him in Irish that he successfully appealed his conviction on those grounds

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/drinkdrive-cases-adjourned-after-irishlanguage-legal-claim-31106384.html

Your link is to a report that is 2 years old and the verdict in that case was overturned by the Supreme Court earlier today.

Are Am Eye

Turnipman wrote: »

I assume that you mean Westland Row and Amiens Street stations?

Would you be a dear and toddle up to Kingsbridge Station tomorrow and let us know the story there?

Cheers.

They renamed that train station on Amiens Street, after some guy called Connolly.

Turnipman

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I'm furious about this. Furious. I am going to write to my local member of parliament and get them to take this all the way to the prime minister! OI, ANDY!

Be sure to send a copy of your letter to Arlene Foster - she gets really annoyed when safety announcements in Irish railway stations aren't made in English and Ulster Scottish

Turnipman

Are Am Eye wrote: »

They renamed that train station on Amiens Street, after some guy called Connolly.

This lad?

MilesMorales1

Turnipman wrote: »

Be sure to send a copy of your letter to Arlene Foster - she gets really annoyed when safety announcements in Irish railway stations aren't made in English and Ulster Scottish

It annoys me too. Like when on the train they say the station name in English and Gaelic, I don't understand the Gaelic one bit but its nice to hear isn't it?

Harry Palmr

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I was more coming at it from an angle of why couldn't someone with an Irish accent get the gig and not Irish Rail making the decision to go with some snotty sounding stuck up posh English wagon sounding voice. They did Republicanise their mainline train logos recently after all.

Added a mural?

Are Am Eye

Turnipman wrote: »

This lad?

Yes, I think he owns a hospital out in blanchardstown as well.

somefeen

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I was more coming at it from an angle of why couldn't someone with an Irish accent get the gig and not Irish Rail making the decision to go with some snotty sounding stuck up posh English wagon sounding voice. They did Republicanise their mainline train logos recently after all.

I wonder is it because whatever software runs the announcement system has a default English accent? Maybe it just so happens to be the same system they use in England. I dunno, I'd prefer an Irish accent even if its just for tourists.

Did ye ever hear the English language announcements on Italian trains?
The next-a stop-a is Rrrrome

Reputable Rog

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I was more coming at it from an angle of why couldn't someone with an Irish accent get the gig and not Irish Rail making the decision to go with some snotty sounding stuck up posh English wagon sounding voice. They did Republicanise their mainline train logos recently after all.

I heard they're using SIRI now to make the announcements, cost saving measures.

Turnipman

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

It annoys me too. Like when on the train they say the station name in English and Gaelic, I don't understand the Gaelic one bit but its nice to hear isn't it?

I wouldn't know. I always have my headphones on when the train arrives at Lush and Rusk.

mzungu

Those are jolly good steam trains.

mikemac2

I hope the OP never finds out about Muine Bheag and Bagenalstown

For Forks Sake

somefeen wrote: »

Treasonous. Charles Haughey would be turning in his grave!!

The only reason Haughey would be spinning in his grave would be if he thought he heard the sound of someone depositing an envelope of cash up at ground level.

server down

Connor Square Bunny wrote: »

I heard an announcement at an English station last year by someone with an Irish accent, so maybe we swapped.

I have heard announcements in Dublin with Irish, English, and Nigerian accents. So, your assertion is nonsensical in the extreme.

As for using English only. I doubt there was one Irish passenger boarding a train in Dublin this week who could not understand English. If they are to use any language other than English then it should be Polish.

This English announcement is a recording though.

Let’s be honest. They speak clearer in general. Mostly I have no clue what is being said at Pearse although there is one woman (not the recording) who is very clear

dxhound2005

Dr Crayfish

I would welcome the Brits with open arms to rule our train services instead of Iarnrod Eireann

MilesMorales1

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I would welcome the Brits with open arms to rule our train services instead of Iarnrod Eireann

British railway services aren't much better than ours.

Stephen15

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I would welcome the Brits with open arms to rule our train services instead of Iarnrod Eireann

First Capital Connect for the Maynooth franchise.

Dr Crayfish

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

British railway services aren't much better than ours.

They are, I used to live there, always thought they were excellent, maybe I just got lucky

mikemac2

Stephen15 wrote: »

First Capital Connect for the Maynooth franchise.

Cork Cobh & Middleton will be getting that

Del.Monte

somefeen wrote: »

I suppose you calls it boxing day as well? Oh yeah I know your type "oh its boxing day in the British isles, let go down to railway station and listen to the queens speech after a game if cricket and a glass of Pimms!"
Treasonous. Charles Haughey would be turning in his grave!!

Train station is a US/lazy Irish media name for railway station - in much the same way as the media refer to all rail passengers as commuters. Dublin suburban railway stations are routinely described as DART stations whereas they are railway stations and in many cases served by other trains as well as the DART service.

MilesMorales1

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

They are, I used to live there, always thought they were excellent, maybe I just got lucky

I was born and raised there and the rail service was always ****ing dismal.

PARlance

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I would welcome the Brits with open arms to rule our train services instead of Iarnrod Eireann

I think they would be up for a swap.

Reputable Rog

Turnipman wrote: »

This lad?

Your all wrong, it's this guy

server down

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

They are, I used to live there, always thought they were excellent, maybe I just got lucky

You did. Their privatised service is ****e. And increasing in price way beyond inflation.

Del.Monte

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Repeated ad nauseum with lots of other ****e during the journey to add to the overall chaos. :rolleyes:

server down

Del.Monte wrote: »

Train station is a US/lazy Irish media name for railway station - in much the same way as the media refer to all rail passengers as commuters. Dublin suburban railway stations are routinely described as DART stations whereas they are railway stations and in many cases served by other trains as well as the DART service.

In the great train station vs railway station war of 2017 I stayed neutral.

Are Am Eye

Reputable Rog wrote: »

Your all wrong, it's this guy

The different types of train tickets should be red, yellow and black.

Train Ticket.....should I have said Railway Ticket

weldoninhio

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Why do people waste their time making videos like this?? Never understood it.

whisky_galore

I don't care as long as I can understand the announcement. More often than they're unintelligible, even when the speaker isn't slurping and horsing his or her way through the mug of tay and the choccy Hob Nobs. All the unneccessary reams of Irish on the on board announcements only serve to p1ss me off and disturb me from my slumber.

dxhound2005

weldoninhio wrote: »

Why do people waste their time making videos like this?? Never understood it.

That's not a person, it's a comedian.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/entertainment/bernard-casey-talks-comedy-creativity-and-the-future-35594016.html

weldoninhio

dxhound2005 wrote: »

That's not a person, it's a comedian.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/entertainment/bernard-casey-talks-comedy-creativity-and-the-future-35594016.html

I would have thought being funny was a prerequisite for being a comedian. Shows what I know. Has he any other “hilarious” everyday announcements??

Reputable Rog

I'd like see the Belgians run our railways.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tSKg6lIXRcw

dxhound2005

Are the announcements in Belgian?

Reputable Rog

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Are the announcements in Belgian?

Depends on your definition of Belgian.

PARlance

Reputable Rog wrote: »

Your all wrong, it's this guy

Service gets suspended a bit too often.