Bus Eireann has announced its timetable for Christmas and the New Year.
The company is advising customers to check their schedule over the festive period.
Buses will run every day across the holiday season, apart from Christmas Day, but some will have changes.
They are as follows:
Christmas Eve
All departures up to 9pm will run as normal, apart from the following exceptions:
Route X1 - 1945 Belfast-Dublin
Route 2 - 2100 Dublin Airport-Wexford; 1830 & 2030 Wexford-Dublin Airport
Route 4 - 2000 Waterford-Dublin
Route 23 - 2000 Dublin-Sligo
Route 32 - 2045 Dublin-Letterkenny; 1945 Letterkenny-Dublin
Route 100X - 2030 Dundalk-Dublin
Route 871/890 - Expressway Eurolines services to and from London.
With the following exceptions there will be no departures on any service after 9pm.
Route 4 - 2200 Dublin Airport-Waterford
Route 30 - 2130 Dublin-Donegal
Route 100X - 2140 Dublin-Dundalk.
Christmas Day
No services.
St Stephen's Day
All services will operate to a Sunday timetable, although the following Sunday Expressway services will not be running on December 26:
Route X1 - 1815, 2015, 2115, 2215 & 2315 Dublin-Belfast; 0530, 1945 & 2200 Belfast-Dublin
Route X2A - 1015, 1615, 1715 & 1915 Dublin-Belfast; 0645 & 1445 Belfast-Dublin
Route X5 - 0930, 1130, 1330, 1530, 1730 & 1930 Dublin-Newry; 0815 & 1015 Belfast-Dublin; 0915 Belfast-Newry; 0715, 1315, 1515 & 1715 Newry-Dublin
Route 32 - 0030 Letterkenny-Dublin
Route 40 - 0940 Cork-Waterford; 1040 Cork-Rosslare
Route 51 - 0725 & 0835 Limerick-Cork; 0725 & 0825 Limerick-Galway
Route 64 - 0625 Donegal-Sligo; 0635 & 0810 Letterkenny-Derry; 0735 Sligo-Derry
Route 871/890 - Expressway Eurolines services to and from London.
There will also be additional services on 26 December on the following Expressway routes:
Route X1 - 0445 Belfast-Dublin; 1715 & 1915 Dublin-Belfast.
December 27 to December 30
All services will be running to a normal timetable.
New Year's Eve
Until 10pm, all services will be running to a normal timetable.
However, the following Expressway Eurolines service will not be running on December 31:
871/890 - Expressway Eurolines services to and from London
All services due to start after 10pm will not be running on New Year's Eve, except the following:
All Expressway services will operate as normal
Route 220 - Services will resume from midnight on 1 January 2020 and operate a full timetable.
New Year's Day:
All services will operate to a Sunday timetable.
Additional Bus Services for Cork:
Late Night services for Midleton and Blarney.
Bus Eireann will operate additional late night buses on Route 215 and 261 on Friday the 6, Saturday 7, Friday the 13, Saturday the 14, Friday the 20 and Saturday the 21 of December.
The pick-up is from St Patrick’s Street only and services will depart to Midleton and Blarney at 01:00, 02:00 and 03:00 hours.
County Hall Park 'n' Ride Christmas 2019
The annual Seasonal Park & Ride from County Hall in Cork will operate every Saturday and Sunday until, December 22nd.
The service operates every 15 minutes from 09.30 to 20.15 on Saturday and 10.45 to 20.30 on Sundays.
For more details check out the Bus Eireann website.
