Around 600,000 people are expected to attend a variety of events in Dublin this weekend, with moving around the capital expected to be challenging.
Transport providers have arned that due the unprecedented number of events, services will be extremely busy.
Gardaí say they have plans in place for what has been described as an extraordinary policing event.
The annual Pride Parade, four GAA quarter-finals in Croke Park, a concert by Taylor Swift at the Aviva Stadium and more concerts at Marlay Park, Fairview Park and Trinity College are just some of the major events taking place throughout Dublin this weekend.
All of this means that more people than usual will be travelling into – and across – the capital.
As a result, gardaí are treating this as an extraordinary policing event with leave limited in Dublin and traffic management plans will be in place as they deal with numbers equivalent to St Patricks Day – albeit more spread out.
Some additional public transport is running, with passengers advised to leave extra time to get to their destination.
People who are not attending the major events are advised to travel outside of event times where possible.
Iarnród Éireann has urged revellers to organise their travel plans in advance and to allow extra time.
It also confirmed that extra commuter and DART services will run this weekend.
“We’re definitely ramping up to provide as much capacity as we can. There’s certainly never been a weekend like it in terms of the number of huge events happening at the same time,” said Iarnród Éireann Communications Manager Barry Kenny.
Speaking yesterday, Mr Kenny said “basically every intercity train en route to Dublin” over the weekend was sold.
There’s likely to be high demand for taxis too, and earlier this week the Taxis for Ireland Coalition predicted that the number of events could lead to long waits for transport for those needing a lift home.
Those flying to and from Dublin Airport – where parking spaces are sold out – are being advised to get buses or lifts and arrive in plenty of time for flights.
