5 minutes

It's amazing the difference 5 minutes can make when it comes to getting to work in the morning. This morning I got up a tad late and decided to take the dart from Tara St rather than do the 15min walk to Grand Canal dock. I just missed one train (naturally) and when the next one arrived, we only got as far as Pearse station. It seems some gobshyte truck driver misunderestimated the height of the railway bridge at Grand Canal Dock and wedged his truck under it. Was one of them brick-carrying trucks with the crane on it to take off the bricks, and the crane was jammed tight under the bridge. The impressive bit was that he managed to run the truck half-way under the bridge before it jammed tight enough to stop - is a wide bridge! As a result, no darts erre running between Pearse and Lansdowne until they un-wedged it and the engineers checked out the bridge, so I had to walk up to Lansdowne, and there they said they hadn't a clue how long it'd take before the trains were running again, but prob at least an hour. So I had to go catch the bus, naturally just missed one and finally arrived in work an hour late!