This is great for my wife and me, Michelle. Thank you. As you know, we are going by Bus Eireann this May, and a three-hour train from Cork to Ennis (with two changes!) will be a nice diversion. Plus, we'll save about 15 euros each.
We first visited Ireland in '70, and we took the train from Rosslaire to Dublin. At one point we were stopped by horses on the track, and so the conductor asked us men (not the women) to get out and heave rocks at them. I remember it like yesterday.