It is now over two years and three months since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that Covid-19 no longer represented a global health emergency and life as we know it has returned to normal since.

Most organisations have endeavoured to try and reinstate the level of service that they had before the pandemic but Irish Rail has failed to reinstate a trolley service on all of its services apart from the trains that run on the Dublin to Cork service.

The issue was once again raised by councillors at a meeting of the Westport/Belmullet Municipal District last week and Cllr John O'Malley spoke of his own experience on a recent journey to Dublin for a funeral.

“I left on the 7.10am train to get to a funeral in Dublin and had to come down again early to attend another funeral. There was nothing to be had,........

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