Irish Rail Jobs Discussion

I too got the email this morning that I didn't get by the second interview (which was on Friday just gone). In my case, the ~50 minutes total was no good.

I will go again though as I am reasonably sure I didn't give as good an account of myself as I could have had due to being sick on the day (I'm dosed up for the last three weeks from covid to a cold and now a chest infection).

And also thanks to the people in here with all the advice.

It sometimes happens based on availability, I had my medical before line manager interview.

Has anyone had word of line manager interview since their medical?

So, this round of driver recruitment appears to be coming to an end, massive congrats to those who were successful.

I was going through this thread and my own emails in anticipation of boards.ie shutting down and also there being another round of The Hunger Games, aka driver recruitment, at some point in the future. I had applied back in Jan 2019 and had forgetton a lot of what went on. In the thread from 2019, there is mention of IR needing 100 drivers in the next 5 years with 70-80 of those for Dublin. Anyone know the status of that? Did Covid set this back?

Also, from my own emails, it appears that I applied for a non Dublin depot in Jan 2019, did the online tests but didn't hear anything about passing or failing them. In Feb and March 2019 I got emails saying that they had received 26000 applications and were processing Dublin applications and to apply for Dublin if I was interested. I don't think I applied.

Didn't hear anything more until
September 2020 when I was invited to reapply which I must have done as was subsequently invited to complete the miniSCAAT, Rules Acquisition Aptitude Test (RAAT) and the Locomotive Driver Situational Judgement Test (LM SJT) My life was in turmoil at that point and Covid was on top of us so don't even remember doing any tests

However, in November 2020, got this:
Thank you for re-sitting the Locomotive Driver Situational Judgement test (LD-SJT) for the role of locomotive driver with Iarnród Éireann‐Irish Rail. We have now scored your LD-SJT and are pleased to inform you that you have met the standard required once again. Please note that your invitation to a face to face assessment centre is dependent on the Trainee vacancies available in any one location. You may have applied for a location with a lower demand for roles. When Iarnród Éireann‐Irish Rail are in a position to extend an invite to the face to face assessment centres they will be in contact directly

After that - nothing. I forgot about it and only looked into this again during this year's campaign.

yeah im in for dublin

I had mine on 19th, and been invited today for medical, i am Dublin as well, did you heard anything?

No word so far in fairness i did all the online testing in october 2023 then didnt hear anything till earlier this year about going for in person tests. stress of waiting for email to land is unreal lol.

Thanks for the update, I'm one of those from 2024, had LM interview and then was sent for medical a few day later, that was March, so hopefully I'll hear something soon.

that information was told to me last month from HR on a phone call when they gave me notice they’d be calling in a month and what to expect and again today when I was officially offered the next training class subject to reference checks etc and whatever last bit of paperwork they needed to do.

I’d assume the diesel is for Connolly then if there’s no room at Heuston. I’ll be on DART training anyway Oct 13th onwards.

I do know we need a few more drivers on the Dart. A few drivers have gone onto different roles recently. Another few are due to retire in the next year or so and 3 or 4 drivers are looking for transfers. I did hear the next Dart class was happening in October which seems to now have been confirmed.

The last few posts seem like bad news for those who have failed to get through the 2025 recruitment process but still have an interest in becoming a train driver and are hoping for another campaign soon.

Since 2019 there have been several campaigns, 26000 people applied in the 2019 one alone, how many were trained and are now driving trains on foot of these campaigns. Less than 100? It sounds like there have been successful candidates who are still in limbo.

Did they not give you a chance to reschedule?

Did you hear back after interview and medical and told you were moving on to the next phase?

Or you heard nothing back and you contacted them today yourself?

Still, sure you're in with a shout 'til Feb 2027. That's still promising isn't it

Has anyone here received any news of progress on Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail - Clerical Officer - Marketing & Business Development?

Any news knocking around up inchicore about a regional class?