“IT’S mad busy,” says Margaret Hegarty, spokes-person for Fastnet Line, which runs the Cork to Swansea ferry service.

Stena Line ferry workers today became the latest to threaten strike action over planned cutbacks and redundancies in the transport sector.

A PASSENGER ferry which was at the centre of a full-scale sea rescue alert after losing power off the Wexford coast yesterday, docked safely in Wales last night.