{"id":599265,"date":"2026-08-20T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599265\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:08:10","slug":"delays-for-rail-commuters-after-major-signalling-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599265\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays for rail commuters after major signalling fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann passengers have been warned to expect delays of up to 60 minutes on train and DART services after a &#8220;major signalling issue&#8221; in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>The signalling power supply fault affecting all services between Landsowne and Donabate has since been resolved and trains have resumed.<\/p>\n<p>Affected services include: DART, Belfast, Northern Commuter, Sligo, Rosslare Maynooth and M3 Parkway\/Hazelhatch.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Kenny, Head of Corporate Communications at Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann, confirmed the fault has since been resolved by Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann&#8217;s technical team.<\/p>\n<p>He said all services resumed just before 1.10pm and that delays will ease through the early afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We apologise to customers affected,&#8221; said Mr Kenny.<\/p>\n<p>Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann said alterations wiill be made to help service recovery, while knock-on delays can be expected due to severe congestion.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Update: Delays are beginning to ease as we regulate services back to schedule. -AD<\/p>\n<p>Alterations can be expected. Delays of up to +60mins will continue to ease for the following services:<\/p>\n<p>DART<br \/>Belfast<br \/>Northern Commuter<br \/>Sligo<br \/>Rosslare<br \/>Maynooth<br \/>M3 Parkway\/Hazelhatch <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3ST9rKlfL\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/S3ST9rKlfL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann (@IrishRail) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IrishRail\/status\/2090438526399594913\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann passengers have been warned to expect delays of up to 60 minutes on train and DART&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-599265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599265","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=599265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}