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Rail services in Waterford are provided by Iarnród Éireann, Ireland's national railway system. Rail services run from Plunkett Station Waterford. The station is located across Rice Bridge on the North side of the city. Services are provided to Dublin, Limerick, Rosslare Europort, Kilkenny, Clonmel.
Dublin Coach run services to Dublin Airport from Cork (via Waterford), Ennis, Limerick, Portlaoise and Killarney to Dublin Airport, with some services hubbing via the Red Cow Luas stop. [15] JJ Kavanagh & Sons operates a number of routes between Waterford, Clonmel, Limerick and Dublin City Centre, some also serving Dublin Airport.
Gowran is served several times daily by Bus Éireann route 4 which operates from Waterford to Dublin and Dublin Airport serving several locations en route such as Thomastown and Carlow. Journeys on this route use the M9 and M7 motorways between Carlow and the Dublin outskirts.
Kilkenny railway station (MacDonagh Station, Irish: Stáisiún Mhic Dhonnchadha) serves the city of Kilkenny in County Kilkenny. It is a station on the Dublin to Waterford intercity route. [1] and was given the name MacDonagh on 10 April 1966 in commemoration of Thomas MacDonagh, one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916.
The town is a stop on the Bus Éireann Waterford – Carlow – Dublin – Dublin Airport route 4. There are several daily services on this route. Thomastown is also served daily by the Bus Éireann Waterford – Athlone route 73 and on Thursday by the local Bus Éireann route, 365 to Waterford via Knocktopher.
Castlecomer is on the National Primary Route that links Kilkenny and Athy as well as the M9 motorway. Castlecomer Bridge, locally known as 'the Dublin bridge' or 'the Big bridge', dates from 1763 and spans the River Dinin (Deen). It was built to designs prepared by George Smith and is a five-arch rubble limestone Classical-style road bridge ...
The rail network is also state-owned and operated, while the government currently still owns the main airports. Public transport is mainly in the hands of a statutory corporation, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ), and its subsidiaries, Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann (Irish Bus), and Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail).
Bus transport is the main form of public transport and is common in all cities. The main cities, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry, Limerick and Galway, all have their own suburban rail networks, although Dublin is the only to have its own tram line, in the form of the Luas. Ireland has a population of just over 7 million people.