For a variety of reasons ranging from housing realities to transport options, some people in Ireland are facing extremely long daily commutes. <\/p>\n
Niamh Towey\u2019s piece on Tuesday outlined one particularly gruelling schedule: that of Martha Gilheaney (41), who recently swapped her six-minute commute to work in Dublin<\/a> city centre for a six-hour commute from her home in Leitrim<\/a> because she felt it was impossible to buy her own place in the capital.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, earlier this month, The Irish Times carried a piece from Health & Family Editor Damian Cullen, detailing the 24 weekly hours he spends<\/a> on trains between Dublin and Thurles.<\/p>\n These are not isolated cases: as Towey reports, a 2024 study<\/a> that looked at the commuting habits of workers in seven small towns in Ireland<\/a> and Northern Ireland<\/a> found 45 per cent of commuters were travelling distances of 30km or more to work, with over half travelling for 45 minutes or more.<\/p>\n The Irish Times is looking to find the longest commutes in Ireland, and would like to hear from readers. <\/p>\n Do you, or someone you know, have a long daily commute to work or college, for example? Perhaps the journey is a far distance; or maybe it\u2019s a shorter distance that takes a long time do to public transport constraints or congestion \u2013 we would like to hear about both. <\/p>\n What type of transport do you typically take; or do you have to hop across a couple of different modes, amd how much of your day does it take? <\/p>\n And, importantly, why do you think your commute is so long? Maybe it\u2019s public transport design, or a job with a rigid location, or, like Ms Gilheaney, you\u2019ve found yourself in a position where living near your job is unrealistic. <\/p>\n You can share your experience using the form below. Please limit your submissions to 400 words or less. Please include a phone number for verification purposes only. If you would prefer to remain anonymous, please indicate this in your submission \u2013 we will keep your name and contact details confidential. <\/p>\n We will curate a selection of submissions for an article but please note we may not publish every submission we receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a variety of reasons ranging from housing realities to transport options, some people in Ireland are facing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27801,38283,66376,3662,61,60,16455,43,16456],"class_list":["post-108702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bus-eireann","tag-dublin-bus","tag-have-your-say","tag-housing-crisis","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-rail","tag-news","tag-public-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}