Full list of transport updates & road closures over Bank Hol weekend as Forbidden Fruit Festival and marathon kick off
AN URGENT warning has been issued for thousands of commuters and motorists with traffic restrictions in place over the busy weekend.
A number of events in the capital have resulted in some road closures and diversions.
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Commuters and motorists are set to face some traffic diversions this weekend
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The Women's Mini Marathon is kicking off in Dublin on Sunday
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The Forbidden Fruit festival is currently being held at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Forbidden Fruit Festival, Bloom in Phoenix Park, the Leinster VS Scarlets clash and the Women's Mini Marathon will make it a busy time for commuters.
As a result, Irish Rail and
Met Eireann confirmed that there will be "unsettled
The Forbidden Fruit Festival has kicked off at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham today and continues tomorrow.
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Due to the event being held, St John's Road will close to traffic both ways from 10.15- to 11.15pm each night between South Circular Road and Steeven's Lane.
The following diversions have been put in place for Saturday and Sunday, meaning routes 52, 60 and C1/2/3/4 are affected.
Normal route to Con Colbert Road then divert left to South Circular Road, right to Conyngham Road, Parkgate Street & continue straight to normal route.
Normal route to Victoria Quay then divert right to Frank Sherwin Bridge, Parkgate Street, Conyngham Road, left to South Circular Road, keep left to loop around onto Con Colbert Road to normal route.
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Due to this, stops 4413 and 2637 are impacted by the diversions.
For inbound commuters, they are asked to use the 1474 stop, while the outbound commuters are encouraged to grab it from the 7078 stop.
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The chiefs confirmed that the Luas will run on normal services for Saturday and Sunday during the
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However, the Luas will run Sunday Operating Hours and Frequency with services beginning at 7am on the Green and Red lines on Monday.
The
It is expected that over 25,000 people will be participating in the 10km race.
Due to the great demand, there will be significant road closures and diversions over the weekend.
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The routes of
Wexford Bus has confirmed that they will be unable to serve all of their regular stops as they can only guarantee pick-up at Dublin Airport, Northwall Quay, Georges Quay, Talbot Hotel Stillorgan and Cherrywood for Southbound services.
This means that Herbert Street will be closed from 8am on Saturday, May 31, to 7pm the following day.
Full list of road closures
Sunday June 1
from 4 am to 7 pm
:
Herbert Street
Herbert Lane
Pembroke Row
Cumberland Road
Fitzwilliam Street
Fitzwilliam Place
Fitzwilliam Square North
Fitzwilliam Square South
Wilton Terrace
Lad Lane
Baggot Street Lower
As well as:
James's Street East
Fitzwilliam Lane
Fitzwilliam Street Lower
Merrion Square East
Merrion Square South
Mount Street Upper
Stephen's Place
Baggotrath Place
From 8:30 am to 5 pm:
Stephen's Green East
Stephen's Green South
Stephen's Green North
Kevin Street Lower
Cuffe Street
Merrion Street Upper
Pembroke Street
Dawson Street
Kildare Street
From 10 am to 4 pm
:
Leeson Street Lower
Earlsfort Terrace
Hatch Street Lower
From 11:30 am to 4 pm
:
Adelaide Road
Leeson Street Upper
Stillorgan Road (Fosters Avenue to Donnybrook Road)
Donnybrook Road
Herbert Place
Nutley Lane
Merrion Road (Ballsbridge to Merrion Gates)
Morehampton Road
Baggot Street Upper
Pembroke Road
IRISH RAIL ROUTES SUSPENDED
Thousands of people across the country are making their way to the heart of Dublin to
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However,
Bank Holiday weekend, stating that engineering works will take place today and will continue until Monday June 2.
Irish Rail typically perform engineering works over the bank holiday weekends due to the extra weekend day allowing them to achieve more progress.
As a result of the engineering works, the affected rails are between Dublin Connolly and Dun Laoghaire.
This means there is no DART service between the stations and the Rosslare services will provide bus transfers between Connolly and Bray.
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Customers are urged to pre-book their seats on the services to avoid any disappointment, as there is high demand on Heuston Intercity routes.
There are a number of trains on Intercity routes that are already sold out, including some trains from
EXTRA RAIL SERVICES
Due to the great demands, there will be extra weekend Intercity services from Cork and Galway to Dublin Heuston for Bord Bia Bloom.
And there are extra Northside DART, Maynooth Commuter trains and Malahide DART services after St Anne's Park concerts and Aslan at Malahide Castle.
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There will be early trains from Cobh, Mallow and Midleton to Cork for the Cork City Marathon on Sunday.
Extra trains from
DUBLIN COACH UPDATES ON SERVICES
The popular green bus has shared an update on all of their services during the bank holiday weekend.
Dublin Coach has increased their capacity on Route 300 from
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They have warned passengers of Route 600 that their Andersons Quay bus stop will not be in operation due to the
All buses until 9:05pm service will operate from outside the Cork City Council Office on Anglesea Street.
They have encouraged commuters to pre-book their tickets to avoid disappointments as the services across the country are expected to be busy during the weekend.
WEXFORD BUS SERVICE CHANGES
The popular east coast bus company has issued an update on their services for the Bank Holiday Monday.
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Route 740, 740X, 740A and 340 are set to operate on a Sunday/Public holiday schedule.
Customers of the Route 340 are warned that there will be no 8:30pm or 10pm services starting at
However, Route 376, 884, WX1 and WX2 will not be operating on Monday.
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The Leinster VS Scarlets clash kicked off this afternoon
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Luas chiefs confirmed there will be no travel disruption during the weekend
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Irish Rail has announced travel diversions for many of their routes due to rail works
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