Travelling home for Christmas: Bus Éireann shares festive timetable
Bus Éireann alongside popular travel and lifestyle blogger Lauren Arthurs has announced its timetables for Christmas and New Year, confirming details of services nationwide over the festive season. Buses will run every day across the Christmas holiday period – apart from December 25th – with services operating standard timetables with some slight exceptions.
On Christmas Eve all departures up to 2100 will operate to a normal timetable, apart from the following routes, which will not operate:
Route X1 – 1945 Belfast-Dublin
Route 2 – 2100 Dublin Airport-Wexford; 1830 & 2030 Wexford-Dublin Airport
Route 4 – 2000 Waterford-Dublin
Route 23 – 2000 Dublin-Sligo
Route 32 – 2045 Dublin-Letterkenny; 1945 Letterkenny-Dublin
Route 100X – 2030 Dundalk-Dublin
Route 871/890 – Expressway Eurolines services to and from London
A small number of Expressway services will operate after 2100, these include:
Route 4 – 2200 Dublin Airport-Waterford,
Route 30 – 2130 Dublin-Donegal
Route 100X – 2140 Dublin-Dundalk
If you’re getting a little bit of cabin fever on the 26th December, a full Sunday schedule will operate across the entire network, excluding the below departures, which will not operate:
Route X1 -1815, 2015, 2115, 2215 & 2315 Dublin-Belfast; 0530, 1945 & 2200 Belfast-Dublin
Route X2A – 1015, 1615, 1715 & 1915 Dublin-Belfast; 0645 & 1445 Belfast-Dublin
Route X5 – 0930, 1130, 1330, 1530, 1730 & 1930 Dublin-Newry; 0815 & 1015 Belfast-Dublin; 0915 Belfast-Newry; 0715, 1315, 1515 & 1715 Newry-Dublin
Route 32 – 0030 Letterkenny-Dublin
Route 40 – 0940 Cork-Waterford; 1040 Cork-Rosslare
Route 51 – 0725 & 0835 Limerick-Cork; 0725 & 0825 Limerick-Galway
Route 64 – 0625 Donegal-Sligo; 0635 & 0810 Letterkenny-Derry; 0735 Sligo-Derry
Route 871/890 – Expressway Eurolines services to and from London
However, if you’re travelling between Dublin and Belfast on the 26th December, additional departures will operate from Belfast-Dublin at 0445 and from Dublin-Belfast at 1715 & 1915.
From December 27th to 30th inclusive, a full regular schedule of services will operate on all routes.
On the 31st December, Bus Éireann will make sure you arrive to your final destination to ring in the New Year, as all services will be running a normal timetable up until 2200 (apart from 871/890 – Expressway Eurolines services to and from London which will not be operating).
With the following exceptions, services due to start after 2200 will not be operating on 31 December. However, all Expressway services will operate as normal
Route 220 – Services will resume from midnight on 1 January 2020 and operate a full timetable
For further details about any of our services over the festive season, check out www.buseireann.ie.
