TIPPERARY dairy and beef farmer Tommy Cooke has been appointed to the board of Teagasc by Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.

A CORONER is to ask Bus Éireann to review its procedures after an inquest heard how a man lay dead on a bus for almost two hours after he choked on raw meat.

BUS ÉIREANN has defended a decision to axe a Cork to Waterford service despite claims from two TDs the company was legally obliged to maintain it.

PENSIONERS, mothers and children took to the streets of Cork yesterday in the first of a series of rolling protests to save under-threat bus services.

BUS ÉIREANN has introduced 25 new low-emission buses on Cork city routes as part of a e6 million investment.

A FREE-FLOW style pilot project to speed up the bus service on two of Cork city’s busiest routes will be launched tomorrow.

A BUS driver has been hailed a hero after bringing a bus to a safe halt after a terrifying stone attack.

A SIGNIFICANT study will be commissioned next month to tackle Cork’s growing traffic problem.

GARDAÍ are searching for arsonists who destroyed two buses, thought to be worth more than €300,000.

DRIVERS gazed in amazement yesterday as they saw buses coming the “wrong way” along what was an established one-way street in Cork city.

THE bus service to some of Cork city’s oldest and most populated suburbs — one of which includes a major Cope Foundation centre — is under threat.

A COLOURFUL new concept in public transport was unveiled in Cork yesterday.

MICK FALVEY, a Kerry native who won an All-Ireland SFC medal with Dublin, has died.

HURLING star John Gardiner will lead a new drive this week to combat stone attacks on buses.

DAVID McCARTHY (St Augustine’s, Dungarvan) made an impressive return to cross-country running with victory in the senior boys’ race at the Kit Kat Munster Schools Championships at St Augustine’s College on Saturday.

A TEMPORARY shelter for bus drivers on Munster’s top shopping street was described last night as a “public eyesore”.

President Mary McAleese laid a wreath today to commemorate Irish soldiers who served and died in foreign wars and UN peacekeeping missions.

Government plans for public transport should allow consumers maximum choice, according to Isolde Goggin, Director of Regulated Markets Division at the Competition Authority.