"I don't know what they expected. There was no where for anyone to get sick."

hatrickpatrick · 26-02-2016 09:11AM #1

This is literally the funniest thing I've read in a long time

Bunch of drunken eejits muppetise a train, leaving it in need of a deep clean due to embedded vomit and... "other fluids" (:eek:) - when confronted by the media over the aforementioned incident, they respond “We were locked in there with one toilet between 300 people - I don't know what they expected. There was nowhere for anyone to get sick.”

Article has plenty of other gems, I won't spoiler the whole thing.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/irish-rail-forced-to-pull-train-from-service-after-drunken-students-vomited-throughout-34485907.html

Vileness aside, I'm in two minds about whether this journey sounds like it would have been great craic or an absolute nightmare to partake in. Guess that means I'm truly straddling the line between the early and late twenties

kfallon · 26-02-2016 09:15AM

Students, ffs! :rolleyes:

godtabh · 26-02-2016 09:16AM

I was on a stag a couple of weeks ago Dublin to Tralee. Drank the whole way down. Nice big group having a good bit of banter but not bothering any one. Even offered the ticket checker a can as he was fairly sound (he politely refused).

If we can do it why cant these idiots do it? Light weights

discus · 26-02-2016 09:20AM

I think Irish Rail have some nerve to blame the students. 1 toilet working on a whole train of 300 people is less than acceptable. They can't even run the Dublin-Belfast line without constant breakdowns and delays so I shouldn't be surprised.

26-02-2016 09:20AM

The science and HEALTH society...

hatrickpatrick · 26-02-2016 09:21AM

godtabh wrote: »

Even offered the ticket checker a can as he was fairly sound (he politely refused).

The foreign STT security guys on the DART are the best for this (interestingly it's the Irish ones who seem more likely to be dry sh!tes) - if they catch you with drink on the last DART of the night they'll take the can, wait until the train stops at a station, and then you basically have to shotgun the can as quickly as possible before they feck it out the door just as it's about to close

kfallon · 26-02-2016 09:21AM

discus wrote: »

I think Irish Rail have some nerve to blame the students. 1 toilet working on a whole train of 300 people is less than acceptable. They can't even run the Dublin-Belfast line without constant breakdowns and delays so I shouldn't be surprised.

Yeah Irish Rail are to blame for a load of pissed up students getting sick all over carriages! Nothing to do with the students at all!

Iwasfrozen · 26-02-2016 09:22AM

godtabh wrote: »

I was on a stagg a couple of weeks ago Dublin to Tralee. Drank the whole way down. Nice big group having a good bit of banter but not bothering any one. Even offered the ticket checker a can as he was fairly sound (he politely refused).

If we can do why cant these idiots do it? Light weights

I'd sy you bothered A LOT of people who were too polite to say anything.

clairek6 · 26-02-2016 09:25AM

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I'd sy you bothered A LOT of people who were too polite to say anything.

This exactly almost every friday on packed dublin to galway train idiotic stag groups blaring music and shouting and drinking and not one bit aware of the annoyance they are

godtabh · 26-02-2016 09:31AM

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I'd sy you bothered A LOT of people who were too polite to say anything.

I doubt it.

BizzyC · 26-02-2016 09:36AM

At least DCU has stated to charge the cleanup to the societies responsible for the event....

stimpson · 26-02-2016 09:38AM

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

I'd sy you bothered A LOT of people who were too polite to say anything.

Some people love to get bothered by people enjoying themselves.

hatrickpatrick · 26-02-2016 09:39AM

clairek6 wrote: »

This exactly almost every friday on packed dublin to galway train idiotic stag groups blaring music and shouting and drinking and not one bit aware of the annoyance they are

"Y'all gon' make me LOSE MY MIND. UP IN HERE? UP IN HERE!" -- The last DART pretty much every Friday night :pac:

If you think the train is rambunctious, try taking the Nitelink

maudgonner · 26-02-2016 10:35AM

Oh God, I wish I hadn't clicked that link. Did they have to have photos? And this line:

Irish Rail said they found vomit and other fluids throughout the train

Way too much information.

Bleurrgh. (Not really, I am not a DCU student, I can restrain myself from vomiting inappropriately).

kfallon · 26-02-2016 10:47AM

maudgonner wrote: »

Oh God, I wish I hadn't clicked that link. Did they have to have photos?

Yeah looking at the photos at 8am this morning was not very nice

kylith · 26-02-2016 10:51AM

discus wrote: »

I think Irish Rail have some nerve to blame the students. 1 toilet working on a whole train of 300 people is less than acceptable. They can't even run the Dublin-Belfast line without constant breakdowns and delays so I shouldn't be surprised.

IR says that there were 5 toilets. I wouldn't be too surprised if 4 of them were rendered inoperable by the students though.

Hercule Poirot · 26-02-2016 10:58AM

They are no better than pigs - bear in mind that this was going TO the event - and then the excuses come out, because none of them could have made it to a corner of the carriage perhaps? No, just vomit on a seat, it'll be grand - dirty bastards

Skerries · 26-02-2016 11:02AM

I wouldn't like to take a UV light to that train

26-02-2016 11:05AM

discus wrote: »

I think Irish Rail have some nerve to blame the students. 1 toilet working on a whole train of 300 people is less than acceptable. They can't even run the Dublin-Belfast line without constant breakdowns and delays so I shouldn't be surprised.

There were 5 working cubicles at the start of the journey.

Duggy747 · 26-02-2016 11:20AM

Where was the Irish Rail Bucket? That's what I usually have to relieve myself in when on the train.

maudgonner · 26-02-2016 11:28AM

This line also got a laugh from me:

It was carnage in Galway City but on the train, everyone was well behaved

Jeez, if that's well behaved, what the hell did they get up to in Galway? The city's only just got over Rag Week!

Eta: The Novena is on in the Cathedral this week, I think. That's probably the event they came down for.

ejabrod · 26-02-2016 11:30AM

godtabh wrote: »

I was on a stag a couple of weeks ago Dublin to Tralee. Drank the whole way down. Nice big group having a good bit of banter but not bothering any one. Even offered the ticket checker a can as he was fairly sound (he politely refused).

If we can do it why cant these idiots do it? Light weights

Tralee for a stag??????? :eek:

Jaysus, times are bad

kfallon · 26-02-2016 11:37AM

maudgonner wrote: »

Eta: The Novena is on in the Cathedral this week, I think. That's probably the event they came down for.

Ah that explains it so, they were sick with excitement

Boom_Bap · 26-02-2016 11:55AM

It must have been something they ate.

5rtytry56 · 26-02-2016 01:11PM

spew thread.

DareGod · 26-02-2016 03:11PM

I heard that there were 3 toilets on the train and 2 of them were out of service, so there was only 1 toilet for 300 students.

If that's the truth, then what kinda of muppets invite 300 students onto a train.... AND only provide 1 toilet?

The students are entirely responsible for their actions, nobody else, but Irish Rail were extremely idiotic to do what they did.

osarusan · 26-02-2016 03:13PM

DareGod wrote: »

I heard that there were 3 toilets on the train and 2 of them were out of service, so there was only 1 toilet for 300 students.

If that's the truth, then what kinda of muppets invite 300 students onto a train.... AND only provide 1 toilet?

The students are entirely responsible for their actions, nobody else, but Irish Rail were extremely idiotic to do what they did.

Link in OP says there were 5 working toilets, down to 4 by the end of the journey.

DareGod · 26-02-2016 03:18PM

osarusan wrote: »

Link in OP says there were 5 working toilets, down to 4 by the end of the journey.

Assuming that's true, I still think Irish Rail were ridiculously stupid to charter a train to 300 students. I wouldn't do that in a million years.

Obviously, nothing takes away from the fact that the students are entirely responsible for their actions.

Hercule Poirot · 26-02-2016 03:21PM

DareGod wrote: »

Assuming that's true, I still think Irish Rail were ridiculously stupid to charter a train to 300 students. I wouldn't do that in a million years.

Obviously, nothing takes away from the fact that the students are entirely responsible for their actions.

Not really that stupid, as said in the OP link they had often chartered trains for student groups and never had these sort of problems before.

We can't tar all students with the same brush just because one gang of them acted like immature assholes

And considering there are only a few vomit pics I doubt all 300 were equally responsible for what happened

jobbridge4life · 26-02-2016 03:29PM

Love that they got in a bit of Trinity snobbery.
“We regularly have student charters from Trinity and have never had a problem with the condition that the train was left in,” the rail service added.
They should tell that to the ski resort the Trinners nearly destroyed a few years ago...

recylingbin · 26-02-2016 03:36PM

jobbridge4life wrote: »

Love that they got in a bit of Trinity snobbery.
“We regularly have student charters from Trinity and have never had a problem with the condition that the train was left in,” the rail service added.
They should tell that to the ski resort the Trinners nearly destroyed a few years ago...

Trinners for keeping down their dinners

"I don't know what they expected. There was no where for anyone to get sick."

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