Bus Éireann workers who are members of the National Bus and Rail Union, have voted in favour of Labour Court proposals to resolve the dispute over pay at the firm.

Bus Éireann Workers are backing Labour Court recommendations aimed at ending a long-running dispute at the company.

SIPTU members in Irish Rail and those employed as school bus drivers by Bus Éireann have voted in favour of taking industrial action.

Operations are expected to resume at Bus Eireann this morning.

“I’m disgusted with the way we were treated. When you’re only a driver, you don’t count.” Those are the words of Bus Éireann’s Pierce Keane, who has driven the Clonmel-Dublin route for more than 23 years.

Many of the Bus Éireann drivers starting their first full working day in three weeks today can still expect to earn a salary of up to €50,000 if they and their colleagues vote to accept a Labour Court recommendation on their future terms and conditions.

Latest: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross TD, has commented on the Labour Court recommendation in relation to the Bus Éireann dispute.

Commuters will today endure a 21st day of the Bus Éireann strike as a Labour Court recommendation aimed at ending the dispute is not due until lunchtime, meaning services cannot run until tomorrow morning at the earliest.

The Labour Court is to issue a recommendation aimed at resolving industrial action at Bus Éireann before lunchtime tomorrow.

SIPTU says it won't know until tomorrow whether Dublin Bus drivers want to go on a sympathy strike with their Bus Éireann colleagues.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has been criticised for being pictured draped in a feather boa with former Miss Ireland, Amanda Brunker, while talks to end weeks of crippling strikes at Bus Éireann were ongoing.

Update 10.43am: Bus Éireann unions say a recommendation from the Labour Court today could see pickets lifted.

The public faces another day of travel disruption as the Bus Éireann dispute rumbles on.

Unions and management at Bus Éireann will resume talks at the Workplace Relations Commission again this morning.

"Imagine Dublin without Luas, Bus or Dart and you imagine this proud City."

Talks between trade unions and management at Bus Éireann will resume at the Work Place Relations Commission today.

As the public spends a 16th day without Bus Éireann services, management and unions will once more gather at the Workplace Relations Commission, this morning, hoping to resolve it.

Update 2.52pm: Minister for Transport Shane Ross has been confronted by several Bus Éireann workers while attending a function in Athlone this afternoon.

Retailers say they have taken a hammering because of the ongoing strike at Bus Éireann.

Bus Éireann says its drivers strike is still on today, despite overnight talks at the Workplace Relations Commission.

The abandonment of rural Ireland dominated the weekly meeting of the Fine Gael parliamentary party last night.

Given I live where there is no regular bus service and my only option is driving or Shanks’ Mare, it’s easy for me to be philosophical about the current bus strike whether it is official, unofficial or wildcat. So, not having a service means I am not directly affected. However others are, with some being badly and even unfairly affected.

Talks between management and unions at Bus Éireann have ended for the night.

Update 12.33pm: Taoiseach Enda Kenny has described as "disgraceful" the secondary picketing that led to travel disruption last Friday.

The public will have no Bus Éireann services for a 13th successive day in spite of worker unions entering talks this morning to end the dispute at the Workplace Relations Commission.

Ireland desperately needs more public transport. In rural areas it’s anaemic, says Gerard Howlin.

Latest: Trade union Unite, which represents craft workers in Bus Éireann, will also attend the talks tomorrow, but their pickets will remain in place.

Our team of reporters talk to people from Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Limerick on how the Bus Éireann strike is having an effect across their cities.

JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY, once chairman of the White Star Line, the owners of the Titanic, won infamy, deserved or otherwise, for dressing as a woman to get a place on one of the last lifeboats after the liner hit an iceberg and sank almost 105 years ago to the day. 

Latest: The National Bus and Rail Union has confirmed that it has received a solicitor's letter from the CIÉ Group in relation to costs resulting from Friday’s wildcat strike.

Latest: Transport Minister Shane Ross "has played a blinder" in the Bus Éireann dispute, according to Michael O'Leary.

Latest: The general secretary of the NBRU says he is ready for 'meaningful' talks at any time to break the deadlock at Bus Éireann.

Bus Éireann driver Ken O’Donnell said they never wanted to let people down, but they have been let down themselves.

Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar has suggested the Government may allow Bus Éireann to fold, saying while it is not the Coalition’s “preferred option”, the reality is there are “more and more private” transport firms in Ireland.

Schoolchildren look set to be the next victims of the dispute at Bus Éireann with Siptu announcing it is to ballot school bus drivers for strike action.

Hundreds of commuters with business and holiday travel plans were hit by yesterday’s wildcat strike action at Cork’s Kent railway station.

Retail sales will plunge by up to 60% is the current bus strike continues, a business group has warned.

Update 4.40pm: The Government has again insisted the Transport Minister cannot get involved in the Bus Eireann dispute. .

WHEN Transport Minister Shane Ross prepared to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Transport yesterday, he had a choice of mode of transport: he could have taken a bus to Leinster House from his home or his constituency office in south Dublin or strolled the brisk walk from his department’s main office on Leeson Lane to Kildare Street. 

Striking bus drivers marched through the streets of Dublin yesterday but the issue in Cork City and other areas affected by the continuing dispute is the opposite: A noticeable drop in footfall.

He said the underlying reason for what is happening is that Government wants to "undermine" costly public transport services.

The Taoiseach has again defended Shane Ross who has refused to get involved in the ongoing Bus Éireann strike.

Latest: It was revealed today that Unite has amassed a €40 million strike fund to support members during industrial disputes.

A national transport strike is now on the cards with Irish Rail and Dublin Bus workers expected to follow their colleagues in Bus Éireann onto the picket lines.