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Ceannt Station

Ceannt Station is the railway station in Galway City. It is located on the south-western corner of Eyre Square. The station opened on 1 August 1851. On 10 April 1966, it was named Ceannt Station in commemoration of Éamonn Ceannt, one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916.

The station is currently undergoing a major redevelopment. The new design will be 'cathedral' style, with a fully glass roof providing natural light as well as heat in the winter months, and reducing it in summer.

I took a train from Galway's Ceannt Station to Dublin's Heuston Station. The duration of the trip was a little under three hours. The train was modern and clean -- and there was plenty of room in the compartment above each seat for luggage storage.

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Type: Train

Coach Station

I took Bus Eireann Service 64 from Letterkenny to Galway. The bus did not stop at Coach Station. Instead, the bus left us off at a bus bay outside of Ceannt Station (Galway Train Station) near Eyre Square. From there, it was only a short walk to the hotel at which I was staying (the Park House Hotel).

On my second day in Galway, I went inside the Coach Station because it was the point of departure for my bus tour to the Cliffs of Moher. The Coach Station opened in 2008 -- and it is modern structure with large glass windows. Reportedly, it cost 40 Million Euros to build. It is located one block northeast of Eyre Square on the corner of Forster Street and Frenchville Lane/Fairgreen Road. It is directly across from the Discover Ireland Centre.

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Type: Bus

Website: http://www.galwaynews.ie/4668-new-%E2%82%AC40m-coach-station-and-running