BUS ÉIREANN passengers can expect real time travel at the touch of a button thanks to a multimillion euro information system set to launch later this year.

BECAUSE it’s Saturday most of us will be spared the weekday gridlock, that unavoidable waste of time, that daily fraying of manners and — almost worst of all — the stress fest brought on by sitting in traffic like so many battery hens waiting for something unimagined to happen.