More than 100,000 bus passengers face travel disruption today as Bus Éireann drivers begin a second day of strike action that brought at least 95% of services to a standstill yesterday.

Bus Éireann has this morning confirmed the vast majority of services around the country are not operating due to industrial action.

Passengers are bracing themselves for travel chaos when Bus Éireann drivers go on strike tomorrow.

Workers at Bus Éireann look set to go on strike at midnight tonight amid a dispute over planned changes to their pay and conditions.

Passengers face uncertainty over the potential levels of disruption from a national bus strike that could begin tomorrow morning.

The head of the union leading the planned strike at Bus Eireann this Sunday is appealing to management to enter talks before the action starts.

Bus Éireann’s decision to press ahead with cuts toworkers’ overtime rates, premium pay, and annual leave entitlement looks set to leave commuters on the roadside as staff go on strike.

Unions have called off a national bus strike after Bus Éireann agreed to defer cuts in staff terms and conditions.

Commuters face travel disruption from the weekend after Bus Éireann workers voted for strike action.

Bus Eireann drivers have voted by a margin of 90% in favour of strike action from Sunday in a row with CIE over pay and conditions.

Bus passengers face the prospect of major disruption to services just days into the new year as strike action looms at Bus Éireann.

Bus Éireann has threatened to cut pay and seek redundancies unless its staff agree to cuts in overtime, premium payments, and holiday entitlement as well as a longer working week in some cases.

THE demise of pensioner Michael Faherty, who died at his house in Galway just before last Christmas, was unique in Irish history.

DUBLIN BUS has vowed to force through a €31 million cost-cutting plan next week despite its main unions voting against it.

BUS services across the country will be crippled for at least three days as drivers protest against cutbacks at Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus.

Travel disruption is on the way for bus passengers in the next few weeks.

Angry drivers tonight voted to go on strike if Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus enforce cost cutting plans that will axe hundreds of jobs.

DUBLIN Bus and Bus Éireann have been accused of taking the “soft option” in cutting staff numbers and axing services in response to falling passenger numbers.

Bus drivers are to vote on possible strike action over massive cuts which could see around 600 workers at Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann laid-off.

THE week-old strike at Dublin Bus, which had been affecting 60,000 commuters, is over following the acceptance by workers yesterday of a Labour Court peace formula.

Unions at Dublin Bus tonight accepted proposals to bring an end to a dispute with the company which has caused travel chaos to thousands of commuters.

THE Labour Court has once again been asked to try to end the continuing dispute between Dublin Bus and its drivers and return full services to 60,000 passengers affected around the capital.

TWO new Dublin Bus routes due to start on Monday face huge disruption after drivers last night voted against operating them until the company meet their demands.

TRANSPORT worker unions have threatened industrial action in the run-up to Christmas if the Government does not delay its deadline for proposals on the new Dublin Transport Authority.

AFTER receiving assurances that an extra 260 buses will be provided, the National Bus and Rail Union yesterday called off its planned nationwide stoppage this evening.

A major bus strike that threatened to leave thousands of commuters stranded across the country tomorrow has been called off.

Thousands of commuters across Ireland will be left stranded on Thursday night when bus drivers go on strike.

BUS drivers warned yesterday they may consider industrial action if the Government does not urgently invest in improving the country’s school bus fleet.

The National Bus and Rail Workers Union (NBRU) has made a pitch for more public transport investment.

No-one will ever know what caused a trawler to sink off the Connemara coast in severe weather last September claiming the lives of four fishermen, a report said today.

THE body of a skipper was found yesterday, one week after his trawler ran aground and his three crew lost their lives off the coast of Galway.