Irish Rail Jobs Discussion

After doing my Medical and Line Manager interview in June, I just got an email from Irish Rail telling me I was deemed medically unfit for the role.

I do have a history of some medical issues, and I had to send in some notes/reports from my GP to the Occupational Health team. They've been silent until this email. Nonetheless, the email from Recruitment just says medical info is confidential and they only received a note that I was unfit from the Medical.

I might call the Occupational Health unit and ask can I get a reason why I was deemed unfit. But yeah, I'm gutted after waiting so long and getting so far to be told this.

Thanks buddy, yeah poor form to leave me so long for an answer like this. The email doesn't really say I can't apply again, just thanks for applying and best of luck in the future.

I did call the CIE Medical Department, I was asked to send an email in to them and they'll get back on Monday or Tuesday. I hope they reply telling me it's something I can change, as I would like to try applying again.

Does anyone know why they are looking for so many station operatives. Apparently around 50 and mostly around Dublin. Is there a lot of retirements coming down the line or are they looking at staffing various staitons more often than currently.

Sorry bout your dad’s passing. Hard luck on getting so far in the recruitment process and falling at the final hurdle.

I would say(not to be unkind to you) that the medical department wouldn’t take a risk on recruiting a new driver currently on antidepressants. It would be different if you were already a driver who subsequently went on antidepressants. There’s plenty of potential recruits that are not taking antidepressants.

Remember the doctor has to sign his/her name to your driving cert that clears u to drive. If anything were to happen that doctor is facing serious questions regarding their medical judgment never mind any potential legal consequences.

I am in no way suggesting that you are in anyway a danger to yourself or anyone else.

The railway is the most risk adverse environment you’ve ever been in.

Again I don’t mean to be unkind to you.

Two months after doing my 16pf interview, today I finally got my line manager interview appointment for the end of the month. Had totally given up hope

Any current CIE employees on here able to help me with a question I have…. So I currently work for bus eireann and applied for Irish rail as an internal candidate , have done my medical , final interview and all just waiting to hear back but I’ve been told by other employees that I could be waiting over a year possibly . Can’t stick driving buses any longer so wondering if it would affect my application if I left bus eireann and went to another job with another company in the mean time , considering it’s an internal application what do you think? If anyone would know

Congrats! What depot did you apply for, if you don’t mind me asking. I had 16pf interview at end of August and the waiting to hear back is tough!

Hi slowcap, I’m in for cork. I didn’t think my 16pf went well at all but got through to my line manager interview somehow, i feel this could be the end of my journey tho. My 16pf was back in august 14th so was waiting a good bit to hear back.

To get to the line manager interview is quite an achievement so this could be only the start of your train driving journey literally!!!!

It’ll probably be the local District Traction Executive which is the person who monitors the drivers in the depot you have chosen. Also will probably be the overall manager in charge of the drivers in your area and a HR representative. Safety, Safety is the key.

Dont knock yourself down. You didn’t get this far on pure luck.

Please can any assist in terms of materials or something for preparing towards miniSCAAT and Rules Acquisition Aptitude Test (RAAT). 

My email is clemsville4u@yahoo.com

You can buy a couple of extra tests to practice on the OPC website. But just do a lot of practice with the materials they send you.

Six months for me! I did the online assessments in January and was only invited to the next assessments in June. I think I may have received an email with some feedback before then but I’m pretty sure that it didn’t actually say if I was successful or not, just how I compared to other candidates as below average, average or above average, and that my application was with IR.

Did you hear anything back from the medical dept bud?