Holyhead to Dublin with Irish Ferries MASSIVE SHIP the MV Oscar Wilde

2 other reasons why ships won’t be using the old dock at Holyhead, a part from the building of the 2 bridges. The first is the salient up in the inner harbour, making it too sallow for ships at low tide. The second is that ships are too big in length to fit in the old dock. Also, the increase in traffic using the ferries would be too much to enter the port through the old entrance for the old dock. You pass it on your way to terminals 2, 3, 4 & 5, at the end of the road running along the side of the port, on the town side of the port. Also, Irish Ferries have the same employment contracts as P&O have now, Irish ferries brought the change in employment contacts back in the Winter of 2005/2006. I remember hearing about how they got raided of their staff, as part of the change. Which is why I do not use Irish ferries anymore, I changed changed over to using Stena Line now a days. Stena Line is the main ferry company, that still employs workers from Ireland and the UK.

Nice video mark. I’m an Isle of Wight ferry captain now but used to go to Dublin with cruise ships in my previous job. You’re right was a bit close at the end, they’re using a lot of power, judging by the wash, so probably a bit closer than intended but cleared ok in the end. These things happen though, I’ve had my fair share of near misses and you live and learn. Dublin is a very tight port at the best of times and is quite tricky if it’s a windy day and there are other ships berthed.

Yes you are right about the old Ferry Terminal. Back in the 70's and 80's you could get a train from Euston that had literally hundreds of passengers on it all going to Holyhead for the Sealink ferry. One train would leave around 8am for the 3pm sailing, and one around 8pm for 3am sailing. Those two sailings back then would be absolutely packed, especially in the Summer months. The ferries now are of course much bigger and need to be accommodated, but it was great to able to board the ship at Holyhead only a few metres from the train, and when you got over to Dun Laoghaire ( now sadly gone as a passenger terminal also ) you could disembark the ship walk up Marine Road and be in a pub in a couple of minutes. The bars used to be heaving on those ferries back then, and the craic on them was brilliant. The Fishguard- Rosslare route also used to be packed back this with a 3pm and 3am sailing also. The train for that service used to depart Paddington Station. I can remember the names of the ships, St Columba, Princess Maude, Hibernia, Hengist all those were on the Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire route, and on theFishguard-Rosslare route you had Caledonian Princess, and The Avalon. Great vid look forward to more.

Loving the hair on the bus!!! "Whenever you go across the sea to Ireland, remember go to Ireland with B & I"

Fantastic video this. Really enjoyed it. Felt very nostalgic as this is a trip I made many a time back in the day aboard B&I Line's MV Leinster, and later aboard SeaLink's high speed service. How things have changed! Thanks for sharing, please keep up the great work!

enjoy Dublin regular visitor from 76 until 2007 as my parents lived in Roscrea

I used to travel Sealink as a child on the St Columba. The Ulysses is amazing, always paid for club class, different class. It’s also a larger ship than Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats is the largest but Oscar is about 5 kts faster than both. Have had tugs supporting at Holyhead before, took an extra 30 mins to dock on Ulysses one time, it was howling at 60+ mph. Great vid.

loved the original Oscar Wilde on the Rosslare to Cherbourg route

Luxury... I remember travelling from the north wall to Liverpool in the 60s and looking down on cattle to be unloaded at holyhead..3rd class ticket.. thanks for the video, it brought back memories..

Decent down to earth trip reports…enjoy watching these videos, thanks Mark 👍

I remember B & I. We lived in Ireland(Co Cork) 1973-80.. and travelled a few times from Swansea to Cork on mv Innisfallen...

I did that journey on a rugby tour back in 1995. I still have my tour jacket. We spent all of our time, all 5 rugby teams, in the bar but we used the old pier.

Nice to see you back, Mark! And an enjoyable vlog today as well.

Thanks for the vlog....very useful interesting and well told.

Excellent Video thank You ☘️👍

At those prices I think I would have paid for the lounge and also a cabin even though it was a short crossing. Another inspiring and entertaining video thank you.

If you thought the food on the ferry was expensive - wait until you get to Dublin !! Originally this ship was on the Pembroke Dock to Rosslare route. The ship that normally does the Holyhead/Dublin route is the the Ulysses, which is one of the best ships I’ve sailed on. The ship with the straight bow when docking at Dublin is the Newest ship the W.B. Yates and this sails mainly between France and Dublin.

Cheers Mark for a interesting journey 👍

Back in March, 2017 I took the roundtrip Dublin-Holyhead. i went over on the Ulysees, nd came back on the Jonathan Swift, Ir was a really nice day to go over and visit Wales.

great crossing mark safe travels