Dublin train drivers want to end service to North-Side stations after 7PM on weekends as Iarnród Éireann announced a 50% increase in security on trains and at certain stations.
Over the past year there has been a significant increase in violence and anti-social behaviour on trains and at stations around Dublin, with one incident in Clongriffan where a group of thugs aggressively drove passengers off a train before vandalising it.
Vandals have attacked and mugged passengers waiting at stations and threatened passengers with knives in some of the over 1,000 instances of anti-social behaviour recorded on trains and at stations in Dublin in since January 2017.
Similar reports of an increase in anti-social behaviour along Luas lines has also been reported.
Iarnród Éireann has said the increased security will focus on stations that are particularly blighted by this rise in anti-social behaviour and the trains that service them.