As passengers this morning face into a 20th day without Bus Éireann services, there is a possibility the Labour Court could produce a recommendation which will stop the strike spreading to day 21.

Unions claim there are forces at play within Government that would prefer to see the demise of Bus Éireann, writes Stephen Rogers.

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

The owner of a Cork city cafe has criticised “grossly overpaid” TDs for accepting a €2,000 pay rise during a bus strike which has left major cities outside the capital without public transport for over two weeks.

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.

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

Bus Éireann workers have vowed to hit train, Dublin Bus and Dart services with further unannounced wildcat strikes again next week disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of commuters each day.

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.

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.

Latest: Siptu members employed as Bus Éireann school bus drivers are to commence a ballot for industrial and strike action due to the threat to their jobs resulting from the wider crisis in the company.

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. 

Bus Éireann’s strife may have come to a head with an all-out strike that has brought the country’s buses to a grinding halt, but the company’s woes and financial headaches have been mounting for years, writes Elaine Loughlin.

As the all-out strike by Bus Éireann enters its second day, Minister for Transport Shane Ross is coming under increasing pressure to intervene.

Commuters face travel chaos for a second day as the all-out strike at Bus Éireann continues.

Passengers have been left without a bus service for the foreseeable future as unions begin an all-out strike from today.

It has been apparent for some time that a transport strike is inevitable. Bus Éireann is on the cusp of bankruptcy. 

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Tens of thousands of commuters have been left stranded today as Bus Éireann workers stage an all-out indefinite strike.

An all-out bus strike is set to go ahead from Monday after Bus Éireann said there is now “no basis” for reconvening talks with unions.

A public meeting to discuss the closure of the Dublin-Clonmel bus route takes place this evening.

There have been some “proper tulips” among the last 17 transport ministers, an Oireachtas committee has heard — but none who managed to bring Bus Éireann to the brink of insolvency.

Transport Minister Shane Ross is set to face questions before an Oireachtas committee today over his handling of the Bus Éireann dispute.

Update 2.30pm: Siptu has condemned a plan released by the National Transport Authority (NTA) which the union says envisages the replacement of Bus Éireann services by private bus operators on vital routes across the country.

Bus Éireann is expected to outline tomorrow whether it will press ahead with unilateral cuts to employee pay.

LATEST: The National Transport Authority (NTA) has claimed that competition on intercity and motorway routes is not solely to blame for the threat of Bus Eireann going bust.

A resolution to the Bus Éireann dispute may never be found, unions have warned, after the company suggested a number of “out-of-bounds and repulsive” cost cutting measures.

Latest: SIPTU representatives have accepted an invitation to attend exploratory talks at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) to discuss the dispute at Bus Éireann which has led to scheduled strike action, which is due to commence next Monday.

Siptu is warning that public transport is facing a major crisis unless Dublin Bus, Irish Rail and Bus Éireann start listening to their workers.

SIPTU is warning that industrial action could be on the way for Dublin Bus and Irish Rail, as well as Bus Éireann.

SIPTU members in Dublin Bus and Irish Rail will act in “solidarity with their colleagues in Bus Éireann”, the union has indicated.

The National Bus & Rail Union (NBRU) has formally served notice of all-out strike action at Bus Éireann, beginning on February 20.

Passengers are facing chaos as Bus Éireann workers are set to stage an all-out strike.

The threat of a bus strike should Bus Éireann impose pay cuts is as inevitable as the need for Bus Éireann to take radical action to restore solvency.

Unions at Bus Éireann have said they want to minimise the impact of any strike action on those who rely exclusively on the company’s services, particularly those in rural areas and schoolchildren.

Bus Éireann and its unions are no closer to resolving how to find essential cost savings at the company after the Labour Court refused to intervene in the dispute.

Unions at Bus Éireann say they will engage with their members before taking any decisions on industrial action.

The union representing public bus drivers is today expected to warn politicians that changes to Bus Éireann’s Expressway service will lead to industrial action.

Dublin Bus staff are to vote on a deal brokered by the Workplace Relations Commission which would see their pay packet rise by 11.25% over the next three years.

Change is necessary if the body is to achieve its aim of streamlining and simplifying a complex and confusing array of legal entities, writes Colleen Cleary

The sides are in a talks process: Workplace Relations Commission officials have indicated they think there is scope for a breakthrough —but is there really any chance that Dublin Bus strikes won’t resume in time for the All-Ireland football replay this Saturday?