We don't have that in Ireland

As we mentioned a few days ago, Dublin is shutting the almost the entire southern portion of its rapid rail system, the DART, for 9 months on weekends. Then they'll shut the entire northern portion for the following 9 months on weekends. One element of the "compromise" for affected passengers is that buses will be provided. Except that:

[Irish Times] Additional Dublin Bus services to be provided during weekend rail closures will not be dedicated services calling at DART stations and "will not attempt to replicate the DART service", it has emerged...[Dublin] Bus has warned all intending passengers to ascertain their nearest bus routes and not to expect to be brought back to the places they were used to arriving at on the DART service...The company said DART tickets would not be valid for use on the buses.

So: for the next 9 months, forget that the DART even exists on weekends, and start looking for your nearest bus stop. That's not what happens in other cities. Consider Washington DC:

[Washington Post, Friday] Tonight at 10, Metro will shut down a section of its most heavily traveled track, the Red Line, and begin a round-the-clock, three-day operation to excise a stretch of old rail, hoist it off the track bed and replace it with new steel.

About 25 Metrobuses will operate free of charge throughout the [Columbus] holiday weekend in place of normal train service, running between Fort Totten and Union Station with stops at Brookland-CUA and Rhode Island Avenue stations.

We'd like to think that Dublin looks around to see how other cities get things done, but there's clearly a preference instead to find an Irish solution to an Irish problem.