St. Patrick’s Weekend Services

Dublin Bus

Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to the St. Patrick’s Festival, there will be a number of diversions in place from Thursday 16 to Monday 20 March 2023. For further details of diversions, please click on the links below.

Nitelink Service
Nitelinks will operate on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 March 2023.

24-hour services
We have 24-hour services which are in operation seven days a week across ten routes.

Friday 17 March 2023 – St. Patrick’s Day
A Sunday Timetable will operate on all routes on St. Patrick’s Day and City Tours will not operate. Due to St. Patrick’s Day Parades, real time information will not be available from approximately 08.00 to 18.00.

Saturday 18 March 2023
A normal Saturday service will operate on all routes.

Bus Éireann

We wish to advise customers that all Bus Éireann and Expressway services will operate to a Sunday schedule on St. Patrick’s Day, Friday 17 March.

There will be a number of diversions on St. Patricks day due to parade’s taking place across the country and we will update this page with information on the diversions shortly.

Please click here for a list of diversions in the Western/Northwestern Region.

Please click here for a list of diversions in the Easten Region.

Local Link

Regular Rural Services will be operating a Sunday schedule. Please note that some diversions are in place due to local parades. For service information over the weekend, please contact your TFI Local Link office.

Go Ahead Ireland

There will be a number of diversions on routes due to St. Patrick’s Day parades. Details are available on the Go Ahead Service Updates webpage.

On St. Patrick’s Day, Friday 17^th March, there will be some changes to Luas services on the Red and Green Lines. Services on both the Red and Green Lines will run Sunday Operating Hours due to the Public Holiday. There will also be partial closures of the Red and Green Lines to accommodate the parade. Details of changes to service are outlined below.

St. Patrick’s Day, Public Holiday Fri 17^th March

Red Line:

• Trams will run Sunday Operating Hours (see below table for first and last tram times).
• From first tram until 10:00, trams will run on the full Red Line.
• From 10:00 until 15:00 approx., all Luas Stops between Smithfield and Connolly / The Point will be closed.
• The full Red Line will reopen at approx. 15:00.

Green Line:

• Trams will run Sunday Operating Hours (see below table for first and last tram times).
• From first tram until 18:00, trams will run between Broombridge and Dominick, and between St. Stephen’s Green and Brides Glen only.
• Trams will not run between St. Stephen’s Green and Dominick from first tram until 18:00.
• The full Green Line will reopen at approx. 18:00.

Luas will run normal Saturday and Sunday Operating Hours over the weekend.

Sunday schedules are in operation with some additional services for DART and Commuter services, please check our journey planner for a full list of services that will operate during the day both pre & post parade.

Tara Street Station is closed until 16:00, please use Connolly or Pearse.

For Intercity journeys you can enjoy great fares by booking online with Iarnród Éireann.

Then all that’s left is to sit back and enjoy the festivities – Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir!

As St. Patrick’s Day is a public holiday, the premium rate applies to all taxi fares. To estimate the cost of any journey on this day, use the Taxi Fare Estimator and select the Premium Rate on transportforireland.ie. A booking fee may apply only where a taxi is booked in advance.

Customers can also make cashless payments for all journeys.