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Oscar Wilde is on the booking engine until the end of the year so I doubt it will be laying up anywhere.

thanks for the updates re WB Yeates, looking forward to a trip on it next year.

It is all gone very quiet is WB actually going to appear in October?

Looking at the IF booking engine now, it shows Oscar Wilde doing Dublin - Cherbourg all sailings from 2nd  to 11th Oct, after that, the following weeks  Epsilon is doing the Saturday sailing with OW doing Tues + Thurs.

Oscar going on to Holyhead for the weekend.

Oscar is carrying foot passengers only on 08.30am sailing from Holyhead. Disappointing that it is not doing so on the 14.30ex Dublin.

Superfast X had to return to Dublin yesterday afternoon after departing due to a medical emergency on board

This from Twitter (find it hard to believe myself)

@Irish_Ferries #irishferries Are you able to confirm that the broken lifeboat crane on #Epsilon has been fixed and that she is now sailing the correct course between Dublin and Holyhead (3.5 hours not 6)

Can anyone shed any light on why the timetable change is on 2 different days?

Swift dep. Dublin at 08:30 from May 2nd (change from 08:45)
Swfit dep. Holyhead at 11:30 from April 24th (change from 11:50)

Superfast X has stayed in Holyhead, must be a job for the travelling fitter.
Another note Stena getting a lot of stick on twitter about the Lagan going technical last night.

Seems to have been Precision as she was on the north berth.  When she came off it Lagan went on, and Precision went out to anchor.  Tbh it's probably been a case of no information to give, though understandably a very stressful time for all of those involved.  A contact in Merseyside tells me it seems there's a problem on the south berth which has put it out of action as they haven't been using it lately.  Precision now in Cammel Laird.

My apologies should have done further research!

Superfast X has stayed in Holyhead, must be a job for the travelling fitter.
Another note Stena getting a lot of stick on twitter about the Lagan going technical last night.

Ulysses still 2 hours, Inishmore Cancelled this morning, and Oscar Wilde doing a cruise of the Irish Sea. Epsilon is sailing even though Stena have cancelled.

Horizon left Dublin 11.45  after an almost 5 hour turn around, passengers for 14.00 ex Holyhead transferred to the Big U

 Today Oscar Wilde was late docking in Cherbourg due to winds had not seen this happen before.

Stena Europe delayed in Fishguard due to MCA checks, now cancelled 18.10 from Rosslare tonight.

Interesting,
Inishmore is constantly late at the moment but I just put that down to the weather and having extra load due to Europe being off. it wasn't showing on Marine Traffic for me for a few days but that now is fixed.

Epsilon is still in Belfast and is cancelled today. Its Trip to Cherbourg tomorrow is still showing on time.

Oscar should be shortly making its way to Rosslare to resume Rossslare - Cherbourg tonight.

Also ULysses schedule is amended to run around 2.5 hours late due to work on her berth in Holyhead.

Must be sorted now as she is on the way across the Irish Sea towards Holyhead departed at 21.20 after 2 hour spin around Dublin Bay and off Howth.  Epsilon arrived in Dublin form Holyhead after 17.30 makes me wonder were IF rash to cancel the service[ to Cherbourg she could have made the trip departing 5 or 6hrs late?, I suppose they were not sure if the U would be fixed in time?

Ulysses moving again, departed Dublin Port 16.25. Marine traffic is showing destination Holyhead.