Buses and trains on St Patrick's Day / Weekend, 2018

Information below is correct for 2018.

Click here for up-to-date information.

Weekly Lidl shopping bus for Corrib Village

NUIG's Student's Union have announced that they are running a free bus from Corrib Village to the Lidl supermarket on the Headford Road on Monday evenings, starting Monday 26 February 2018.

This is similar to the supermarket service which operates in some other Irish cities.

It is only open to students (not yet clear if it's only Corrib Village residents, or if other NUIG students can use it), because it not a licensed public bus service.

The service:
Leaves from Corrib Village at 6pm
Leaves from Lidl at 7.30pm

Presumably it will operate during term-time only.

See also

• Supermarkets in Galway - for the location of other supermarkets
• University neighbourhood map - for other amenities in the NUIG area
• City bus service details

Extra buses on Burkes Tuam route 427

Burkes Buses have announced that they are adding 10 extra services to their timetable, effective from this week.

They have not published the times of the new services as yet,which are presumably 2 per day, Monday - Friday. 

As at now, the services shown on their timetable are:

Tuam to Galway times

07:00
07:20
07:45
*07:50 - to UHG and NUIG
**07:55 - to GMIT during termtimes
*08:30 - to UHG and NUIG
09:05
10:00
10:50
12:00
13:10
14:10
16:10
17:10
18:10 - added Oct 2017
19:10 - added Oct 2017

Galway to Tuam times

08:00
09:05
10:05
10:50
12:10
13:10
14:10
15:30
16:10
16:40
17:10
**17:10
17:40
18:20
19:10
21:10

Christmas and New Year bus and train services in Galway 2017 / 18

The information below was for Christmas 2017. 

Click here for this years Christmas public transport information.

A summary of 

bus and train services 

in Galway city and county 

for the 2017 Christmas and 2018 New Year period.


This is based on information published by the bus operators, and is subject to change.
  Always check the services you want to use with the bus company.

Extra buses on CityLink multi-stop Galway / Dublin service (route 763)

CityLink have announced the addition of two buses to the timetable for their multi-stop / commuter Galway to Dublin service, route 763, effective from Monday 4 December 2017.

• A 5am coach from Galway city, stopping at all existing CityLink stops and arriving in Dublin city at 8:40am and Dublin airport at 9am

• A 9:30pm coach from Dublin airport, picking up in Dublin city at 10pm, stopping at all existing CityLink stops and arriving in Galway city at 1:25am.

The new timetable for this service is available here.

The multi-stop service for commuters compliments the CityLink express service, which travels between Dublin airport and Galway Coach Station in 2:45 and the AirEagle Direct service which takes two and a half hours.   These services are not affected by this change.