Perhaps the Irish are inclined towards strong feelings about anything related to tea, but food trollies on Irish trains are a surprisingly emotive topic. Catering was suspended across all Iarnród Éireann services during Covid and only made a limited return in the years afterwards, much to the disappointment of people across Ireland. The Dublin-Cork and Dublin-Belfast intercity services got the catering trolley back after a tender, launched in 2024, resulted in a seven-year, €40 million catering contract awarded to CCSL for the two routes. But the Department of Transport decided that it wasn’t going to approve funding for the third…

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