The Dublin Coach Experience

Used the 726 Newbridge to Naas this morning. No lights upstairs - I couldn't see a thing. And no air conditioning - a serious issue since Covid. Overall a complete lack of professionalism from Dublin Coach. It's a shame the National Transport Authority staff never leave their desks to experience FIRST HAND what the public transport experience is really like.

If they done that, most of their buses will be taken out of service

Is there any update Regards the court case with the rental company

Am I right in saying that the N7 service must have serious staffing issues ?

I mean I'd say most of their good drivers are now elsewhere.

That's on their FB under a post now!

It's a pity the took the good out of the point with his "nationalism"........

https://x.com/EamoT1888/status/1757719550777307519?s=20

I took a 750 from Red Cow to the airport on Wednesday afternoon. It was a yellow Mercedes bus with a glass roof (roughly 12-15 seats). It spent 10 minutes at Red Cow while the driver and another person who had got out of a car in the car park opened up the bonnet and poured a pink liquid (presumably coolant solution) into the engine. It took several attempts at restarting the engine before the bus got going again.

To get the door open at both Red Cow and the airport, the driver had to use the emergency open handle next to the door and then shove it open.

One of the seats was also missing a seat belt.

Dublin Coach don't have a blue coach?...

Everything is all over the place they are badly short of buses, they're meant to have 7 buses on Portlaoise but they only have 3 or 4 on atm..

Yes that's their 141 King Long, rarely used but it's been on the 726 lately

I think we’re gonna know this year, with that court case if the green bus has to hand back the Mercedes buses to the rental company

Something needs to happen to the company because cause they borrowing buses as well there was a white coach that passed me on Wednesday, and it was a 201 and just had their sign in the window, and it said Dublin airport on it

Some photos have emergered on Facebook today of the depot. There's seems to be the usual stuff but there's also an 08 reg Setra in some kind of a grey livery, and one of the Vanhools looks to be broken up too. The only Vanhools I've seen on Portlaoise recently are the 12 reg ones, the 09 ones seem to have disappeared at least for the moment

With that said I wonder if it just the two 12 reg Vanhools left. 726 getting alot of single deckers lately with the King Long getting some use for a change even during the early hours of the morning!

The grey Setra is supposedly the gold one that was sat outside the depot for ages. Why didn't they paint it green is a good question!

Does Dublin Coach come under the remit of the National Transport Authority? Does this remit apply to certain services only?

I ask because the "quality" of Dublin Coach services leaves a lot to be desired. I believe the Dublin Coach brand has now deservedly acquired a very poor reputation.