Search

06 Sept 2025

Commuters to be hit by Easter weekend rail disruption

Belfast-Dublin services are being affected, with bus transfers running

Commuters to be hit by Easter weekend rail disruption

Dundalk Clarke Station. (Pic: Darran Rafferty)

Engineering works are set to affect Irish Rail customers travelling to and from Dundalk Clarke Station over the Easter weekend, Irish Rail say. 

The works are taking place on Saturday March 31st and Sunday April 1st. 

All train services are operating between Belfast and Drogheda only, with bus transfers then taking passengers from Drogheda to Dublin Connolly. 

In addition, there will be bus transfers in operation between Dublin Connolly and Drogheda on Monday April 2nd for the 07:35hrs service. Trains will then run from Drogheda to Belfast. 

On the same days, train services are operating between Dundalk/Drogheda and Skerries only, with bus transfers available for passengers going from Skerries to Dublin and back again. Rush and Lusk Station will be closed on both days. 

Northbound passengers are also affected by engineering works over the following two weekends. On Saturday 7th and Sunday April 8th - and on the 14th and 15th - Belfast services will operate to and from Portadown only, with bus transfers then operating to and from Newry to Belfast.

To continue reading this article,
please subscribe and support local journalism!


Subscribing will allow you access to all of our premium content and archived articles.

Subscribe

To continue reading this article for FREE,
please kindly register and/or log in.


Registration is absolutely 100% FREE and will help us personalise your experience on our sites. You can also sign up to our carefully curated newsletter(s) to keep up to date with your latest local news!

Register / Login

Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.

Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.