New measures are likely to be introduced at Irish airports to monitor people entering Ireland from Europe and other parts of the world to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

The National Bus and Rail Union says “fearless” groups of are terrorising drivers.

The number 27 did not serve the Brookfield and Jobstown areas from 8.30pm.

The National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) has renewed calls for a dedicated transport police unit after a gang of youths "hijacked" a bus on the country's first 24-hour bus route and threatened the female driver with rape.

Bus and rail workers are reviewing "notorious blackspots" for antisocial behaviour ahead of Halloween.

He was responding to a report that Irish Rail has received 105 complaints of anti-social behaviour on the Dublin-Cork line since the beginning of last year.

Bus drivers say they will not take on passengers at Busáras after dark unless security is improved.

The NBRU reported that there have been 2,488 incidents of antisocial behaviour on Irish Rail services between 2013 and 2018, including open drug use, assaults and intimidation.

Strikes and service withdrawals are expected to be threatened by transport workers in response to antisocial behaviour and jobs fears in the coming weeks and months.

General Secretary of the NBRU Dermot O'Leary says the problem is widespread on transport routes.

The union representing Bus Éireann drivers fears one of them could be killed amid a spate of serious assaults in Dublin.

The General Secretary of the National Bus and Rail Union feels it's only a matter of time before a bus driver is seriously injured in an assault.

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An independent expert hired by the National Transport Authority to examine the plan claims the union is organising public meetings to turn the public against the proposals.

Transport Minister Shane Ross is proposing a radical scheme to offer share options to 11,000 CIE employees, in order to “give them a few bob” and make them feel better.

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“Major industrial unrest across the public transport system” has been threatened if the Government continues to outsource public routes to the private sector.

Iarnród Éireann has dismissed media reports claiming a significant number of its routes are facing the axe — but has identified four lines at risk of closure due to funding shortfalls.

Irish Rail chief executive David Franks, who was described as “anti-driver” and “anti-union” by staff representatives earlier this week, has announced that he is to leave the company in the coming months.

Latest: Iarnród Éireann has welcomed the invitation from the Labour Court to a hearing tomorrow concerning the current industrial dispute.

Reacting to the news, the National Bus and Rail Union has said it is "appalled" that the Transport Minister would consider going to North Korea, saying he "refuses to work towards sorting a major rail dispute".

As Leo Varadkar and Shane Ross are quickly learning, it’s easier to grumble about a train’s location while waiting on the platform than to be responsible for getting it there in the first place.

Travel chaos is imminent as the first of five 24-hour nationwide rail strikes looks set to go-ahead tomorrow.

Irish Rail and the National Bus and Rail Union are to go back to the talks table over pay.

The two largest driver unions at Irish Rail have said it is within the gift of Transport Minister Shane Ross to intervene and stave off strike action which could cripple services by the October bank holiday weekend.

Thousands of rail users could be hit with strikes as soon as the October bank holiday weekend after talks on pay increases for Irish Rail staff broke down at the Workplace Relations Commission last night.

Unions at Irish Rail have warned a failure by management to offer a sufficient pay rise without pre-conditions today will trigger a ballot for strike action.

Irish Rail workers have threatened strike action over a proposal to move station staff to new jobs on trains.

Latest: The National Bus and Rail Union has warned of industrial action if more bus routes in Dublin are privatised.

The National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) has accused government and management in Iarnród Éireann of “playing Russian roulette” with transport policy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.