Irish Government Invents Time-Travel Bus Éireann Route to 2007 Celtic Tiger
A new Bus Éireann route has been launched, promising to transport passengers back to the height of the Celtic Tiger for property viewings.
The FY Times Staff
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Route 07T
Bus Éireann Route 07T departs Dublin Busáras every night at 11:59 PM sharp, arrives in 2007 Ballsbridge for property viewings, and returns at 3:33 AM with passengers clutching negative-equity deeds and 2006 haircuts. One-way ticket: €2,000 cash or one ghost-estate share certificate. The bus is a retrofitted 2004 Volvo B7TL with original Tiger-era upholstery and a CD player stuck on ‘The Fields of Athenry.’
Factual nugget
28,000 residential units remain vacant nationwide; NAMA still holds €1.8 billion in distressed assets (Dept of Finance Q3 2025).
Nonsense twist
Passengers disembark wearing brown leather jackets and sovereign rings, return quoting Anglo Irish share prices. One rider attempted to pay with a €500 note; the driver refused, citing ‘pre-crash inflation.’ The route’s quantum gearbox was allegedly reverse-engineered from a DeLorean in Tyrone.