August 21, 2006
Persistence at DiscoverIreland.com
If you want to find the information on Inclusive Travel at Ireland's official toursist website you need
to drill down a bit.
But travel beyond the good start at this web site and CIE Won't let Me on the Train tells the story of much more work still to be done.
Let's "Erin go accessible!"
In a week when the government announced a €400 million plan to extend Kildare’s rail network, an Athy woman claims she and her wheelchair-user colleagues are being refused permission to travel by train because they are confined to oversized wheelchairs.Patricia Quinn (47), who was born with cerebral palsy, says she has been told by officials that she and her over-sized wheelchair user colleagues can no longer travel by train following the distribution of an e-mail sent by Iarnród …ireann to station masters across the country.
The internal e-mail, which has been seen by the Kildare Nationalist, was issued following a number of reported incidents where wheelchair users were being placed in the vestibules of carriages and left there for the duration of their journey.
Source:
http://www.kildare-nationalist.ie/news/story.asp?j=23599