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Article: Exchange rate for train fare criticised
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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NORTH-SOUTH LINKS: TRAIN PASSENGERS between Belfast and Dublin
are being unfairly treated, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the
Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement was told at Leinster
House yesterday.
Fianna Fail Senator Cecilia Keaveney told the committee that the
operators of the Enterprise train service were exploiting passengers
who paid in euro, through imposing an exchange rate of 69 cent to
the pound, whereas the market rate had been in or around 90 cent for
a considerable time.
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