Update: Minister 'can’t interfere' with Irish Ferries' decision, SIPTU express concern at situation

Plans by Irish Ferries to no longer run a ferry between Rosslare and France are being described as a "big blow".

Update: Minister for Transport Shane Ross met with Eamon Rothwell, the chief executive of Irish Ferries’ parent company, Irish Continental Group to express the Government’s concern about proposals to shut down the ferry company’s Rosslare-Cherbourg route.

“It is a completely commercial decision, we can’t tell him that he can’t do it,” Mr Ross told RTE’s News at One.