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Bus Éireann has announced timetables for the Christmas and New Year period, with some extra services over the festive season.
Buses will run every day across the Christmas holiday period - apart from December 25 - with services operating standard timetables with some slight exceptions.
Apart from the following exceptions all departures up to 2100 will operate to a normal timetable on December 24th:
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Route X1 - 1945 Belfast-Dublin
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Route 2 - 2100 Dublin Airport-Wexford; 1830 & 2030 Wexford-Dublin Airport
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Route 4 - 2000 Waterford-Dublin
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Route 23 - 2000 Dublin-Sligo
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Route 32 - 2045 Dublin-Letterkenny; 1945 Letterkenny-Dublin
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Route 100X - 2030 Dundalk-Dublin
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Route 871/890 - Expressway Eurolines services to and from London.
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With the following exceptions there will be no departures on any service after 2100 on December 24.
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Route 4 - 2200 Dublin Airport-Waterford
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Route 30 - 2130 Dublin-Donegal
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Route 100X - 2140 Dublin-Dundalk
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On December 26, all services will operate to a Sunday timetable, although the following Sunday Expressway services will not be running on 26 December:
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Route X1 - 1815, 2015, 2115, 2215 & 2315 Dublin-Belfast; 0530, 1945 & 2200 Belfast-Dublin
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Route X2A - 1015, 1615, 1715 & 1915 Dublin-Belfast; 0645 & 1445 Belfast-Dublin
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Route X5 - 0930, 1130, 1330, 1530, 1730 & 1930 Dublin-Newry; 0815 & 1015 Belfast-Dublin; 0915 Belfast-Newry; 0715, 1315, 1515 & 1715 Newry-Dublin
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Route 32 - 0030 Letterkenny-Dublin
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Route 40 - 0940 Cork-Waterford; 1040 Cork-Rosslare
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Route 51 - 0725 & 0835 Limerick-Cork; 0725 & 0825 Limerick-Galway
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Route 64 - 0625 Donegal-Sligo; 0635 & 0810 Letterkenny-Derry; 0735 Sligo-Derry
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Route 871/890 - Expressway Eurolines services to and from London
There will also be additional services on 26 December on the following Expressway routes:
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Route X1 - 0445 Belfast-Dublin; 1715 & 1915 Dublin-Belfast
From 27 to 30 December all services will be running to a normal timetable
On December 31, until 2200, all services will be running to a normal timetable, although the following Expressway Eurolines service will not be running on 31 December:
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871/890 - Expressway Eurolines services to and from London
All services due to start after 2200 will not be running on 31 December, although the following services will be running normally:
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All Expressway services will operate as normal
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Route 220 - Services will resume from midnight on 1 January 2020 and operate a full timetable
All services will operate to a Sunday timetable on January 1.
For further details about any of our services, check out www.buseireann.ie.
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