So this is how Irish rail welcomes tourists !!!!!! The station manager ..confirmed that the Irish train passengers do not like dogs. Well I know a large number of Irish dog owners who are battling that opinion HEAR HEAR MISS DARCY !! Miss Darcy is a very well travelled dog. She has travelled extensively throughout Europe ,usually by train and has never had a problem. That is until she came to Ireland. Read her account below. Does it sound familiar .A grudging well let you on the train this time but you might not get back Does this sound like how we should welcome tourists in Ireland /Northern Ireland? Not to us. It sounds more like threatening behaviour - issuing a warning to someone that if they have the audacity to travel on an Irish train with a dog, they might well be stranded miles from home. It is exactly the same hostile tactic employed by Northern Ireland conductors many times this year to frighten and intimidate people travelling with dogs in Northern Ireland. To quote Miss Darcy The station manager ..confirmed that the Irish train passengers do not like dogs. .In all our travels in the UK and all our travels in Europe, we’ve never encountered this. There were individual taxis or car services that wouldn’t take dogs but not an entire entity such as the Irish Rail to impose such restrictions on pet travel. And the nonsensical rules they impose - On Northern Ireland trains dogs cant sit on your knee but must stay on the floor but on Irish rail they can ONLY travel on your knee and are not allowed on the floor ! THEY ARE AN EMBARASSMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND WHO WANT TO WELCOME TOURISTS. And for their information the PEOPLE of Northern Ireland have no problem with dogs on-board as a recent opinion poll made clear. Fortunately she has now arrived in Ashford Castle the finest hotel in Ireland who were very happy to give a rousing Irish welcome to Miss Darcy, as are we. But now she has to worry about how she will get back from Galway to Dublin to catch a ferry home ............ missdarcy.org/dog-blog/an-anti-dog-train-encounter#more-23920 Please share and help Miss Darcy get home
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:28:21 +0000