Check out the Dublin Bus website for road passenger services for the greater Dublin area, plus timetables, corporate information and visitor resources. The website address is www.dublinbus.ie

Use their A-Z destination finder to plot your path around the city. Adult Cash Fares (16 and over) are as follows: Stage 1-3: €0.80, Stage 4-7: €1.20, Stage 8-13: €1.40, Stage 14-23: €1.60, Over 23: €1.70. Children's Fares: Stage 1-7: €0.50, Over 7: €0.75 Schoolkid Fares: All Stages: €0.40. But don't worry about stages, if you tell the driver your destination, (s)he will tell you the fare. But remember that you must have exact change to put in the Autofare machine, as it doesn't take notes.
This is a safety measure to stop drivers handling money.

There are various one-day, three-day, five-day and week-long tickets that you can buy in most newsagents that give you unlimited travel on all Dublin Bus services for the specified duration. A one-day adult Rambler ticket costs €5, while 7-Days cost €17.50. The month-long version costs €68. There are other tickets like the Short-Hop that allow interchangeable travel between bus, DART and Suburban rail services.

When you're coming home in the wee hours, the Nitelink is often is fastest and cheapest way to go. The Nitelink buses congregate on Westmoreland Street, College Street and D'Olier Street (which are adjoining). There are ticket kiosks open on College Street and Westmoreland Street or you can buy your ticket from the driver on your bus. Ask any driver which one to hop on for your destination. The fare is €4 regardless of where you get off. Considering the distances covered by Nitelinks, this is going to be much, much cheaper than getting a taxi. The 7N goes to Shankill stopping at Mount Street, Ballsbridge, Blackrock Park, Dun Laoughaire DART station, Sallynoggin and Ballybrack along the way. The 41N goes to Swords Manor stopping at Drumcondra, Santry, the Airport, River Valley and Swords Village along the way. The full list is available on the website www.dublinbus.ie

Dublin Bus also run an Airlink service that will bring you from the city centre and the train stations to Dublin Airport and back. The aptly-named 747 runs from Connolly station via Busaras, while the 748 does that same run taking in Hueston station. The 746 runs from Dun Laoghaire to the airport.

There are nine Quality Bus Corridors in Dublin going to Lucan, Malahide, Swords, Finglas, Blanchardstown, North Clondalkin, Tallaght, Rathfarnham and on the Stillorgan dual carriageway. There are also disjointed ones like that which leads to South Clondalkin from Cork Street. Passenger numbers on the QBC routes are up by 40%, while numbers on the most successful routes like Stillorgan and Malahide would have jumnped much more than that. The Xpresso service also runs on all the busiest routes (route numbers with 'x' after it) which have fewer stops, so it zips you in and out of the city in record time. 

Dublin Bus,
59 Upper O'Connell Street,
Dublin 1.
Tel.: 01-8720000