{"id":402762,"date":"2026-04-17T03:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:43:22","slug":"rail-users-ireland-claim-no-funding-available-for-catering-service-on-kerry-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402762\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Users Ireland claim no funding available for catering service on Kerry trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Irish Rail has everything in place to resume a catering service on\u00a0its Kerry to Dublin train service \u00a0&#8211; but the Department of Transport is refusing to fund it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to spokesman for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railusers.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rail Users Ireland,<\/a> Mark Gleeson, who says Irish Rail has a contractor in place, and has also nominated a supplier.<\/p>\n<p>However, he claims the service can&#8217;t resume any time soon without the go-ahead from the Department.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/irish-rail-to-award-tender-for-catering-services-on-kerry-trains-soon-363086\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">catering service<\/a> on the trains leaving Kerry for Dublin since the Covid pandemic;\u00a0it&#8217;s available\u00a0at some point between Cork and Dublin, but not on any line to or from Kerry as far as Mallow.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gleeson says it&#8217;s unfair to expect passengers to travel such a long distance without access to catering:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Irish Rail has everything in place to resume a catering service on\u00a0its Kerry to Dublin train service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[177502,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-402762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-catering-on-trains","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402762","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=402762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}