Dublin Bus announces extra late-night Christmas services for over 50,000 passengers

Eva Osborne

Dublin Bus has announced extra late-night bus services, with capacity to carry 50,000 more passengers over the Christmas period.

There will be additional bus departures on the company's 24-hour services and more NiteLink offerings.

Dublin Bus spokesperson, Blake Boland, said: "We will have 45 additional departures and night service routes on specified dates. We're also going to have six extra days of nightlink services.

"So that's an extra capacity of more than 50,000 extra passengers that we're going to be putting on throughout December."

A full Nitelink service will now operate on:

• Thursday 12th, Friday 13th and Saturday, December 14th;
• Thursday 19th, Friday 20th, Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd, and Monday, December 23rd;
• Friday 27th and Saturday, December 28th;
• Monday 30th and Tuesday, December 31st.

In addition to the Nitelink services, Dublin Bus also has 10 24-hour services which are in operation seven days a week.

It comes as later DART and commuter train services also get back underway each weekend.

Irish Rail spokesperson Barry Kenny, said the next three weekends will also see late-night DARTs and commuter trains operating:

"It's the Thursdays to Saturdays over the next three weekends so right up to Christmas that we will have those late-night services and the great thing for regular customers is if you've got a season ticket, you can use it on that so effectively that's a free journey home and it is normal fares, no premium fares apply.

"We will have additional security, that's very important for late-night services."