An industrial dispute over a new suburban rail station at Booterstown that operates without staff.
The automated Booterstown station between Blackrock and Sydney Parade in Dublin opened for commuter train services on 3 March 1975.
You can buy a ticket in a machine, push your way through a turnstile and board a train all without the attention of any CIÉ worker.
Members of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) and the National Association of Transport Workers object to the automation. A lightning strike was called forcing hundreds of rail commuters to queue for buses.
The strikers are concerned over a loss of employment want the new suburban commuter station to employ at least one person.
CIÉ points out there is no job lost and that similar stations at Sydney Parade and Bayside already operate without staff.
The strikers however, at least until late afternoon, felt that this apparently should not happen a third time round.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 4 March 1975. The reporter is Pat Sweeney.
