Basis for Recommendation
There was crowding at stations on the day of the occurrence, with no staff available at half the stations enroute to Bray, the mitigation may have been for CTC to have direct information from the IÉ Security Room to CTC, to allow for staff to be deployed to unmanned stations; but this was not done. As the incident escalated, it was reported that passengers alighted from the platforms at three stations onto the railway line, likely as a result of no staff being present.