Rosslare Port Terminal

Agree with pretty much all of that. In my view the terminal building is okay - not perfect but always clean and warm in the winter. The upstairs departures lounge is the most comfortable area but probably not much point passengers going up there any more just to return downstairs (the walkway to the ferry extended from the first floor).

I've never seen any form of consultation or engagement with ordinary users despite the hype and gloss of some sort of stakeholder group in the local media.

Management have done a great job in building freight traffic but need to seriously review and walk through their foot passenger offering. And it certainly is worth bothering about as the numbers all add up both to the ferry companies and in terms of spending in local and regional economies.

It could be so much better...

Yes have to agree, I worked in Swansea and occasionally went the Pembroke, I found it a little better, didn't tend to stay to long😊

The bus for foot passengers means that they can handle a wider variety of vessels. If they are reliant on using the gantry, then every ship looking to accept foots would need to have a foots entrance at a suitable position along the side of the ship.

By using the bus, that limiting factor isn't there for ferry companies looking to use Rosslare

You would imagine the Greens would light a fire under CIE who operate Rosslare to improve the rail connectivity + the set up in the ferry terminal …

Rosslare handles containers, in small volumes but since the Finnlines service commenced there has been a reach stacker in operation on the breakwater to lift the containers off the cassettes used in the vessel and onto hauliers trailers.. CON-Ro means that STS gantries aren’t needed anymore..

However the volumes are quite small and the economics are unlikely to stack up for moving the containers onward by rail, although I wouldn’t rule out some containers arriving to Rosslare and being shunted to Waterford to move by rail..

How did you know the three lads were Russian?

Did you check their passports, or did they just look like they were in a hurry?

Where were you coming from?

No passport needed from Wales.

No passport needed for Irish or UK citizens but definitely needed by all other nationalities.

Common Travel Area only applies to Irish or UK citizens.

That is completely wrong.

They are absolutely needed by anyone who is not a citizen of Ireland or the UK when travelling to Ireland from the UK or vice versa. We don’t have common visas except in very limited circumstances.

Irish and UK citizens only need to satisfy immigration officials of their nationality and that they are entitled to avail of the provisions of the CTA..

I’m assuming that you are an Irish or UK citizen?

The CTA only applies to those citizens as I clearly stated above.

Anyone else legally requires a passport or an EU Country issued national ID card.

Well then we are not disagreeing with one another.

I was referring to people who are not citizens of Ireland or the UK.

In my post I was correcting the assertion by the other poster that people who are not citizens of Ireland or the UK do not need passports when entering Ireland from the UK - they certainly do as they are not entitled to avail of the provisions of the CTA.