A 36-year-old man has appeared in court in Roscommon facing 91 charges relating to social welfare fraud.

REIGNING Dunlop National Rally champion, Mel Evans and current Irish Tarmac championship leader, Tim McNulty, both in Subaru WRCs, go head to head in Sunday’s opening round of the Dunlop series, the Abbeyleix Manor Hotel Rally that also marks the beginning of the Top Part West Coast Rally series.

Striking Dublin Bus drivers tonight agreed to go back to work ending a bitter row over new timetables and rotas as well as three days of travel misery for commuters.

Dublin Bus says services should be returning to normal this lunchtime on all routes except those served by the Harristown depot.

A wildcat bus strike spread across the capital today amid claims that drivers have intimidated others attempting to work.

Thousands of commuters are facing more disruption this morning as Dublin Bus drivers engage in a third day of unofficial industrial action.

A limited service has been restored on some Dublin Bus routes affected by a wildcat strike at the Harristown and Clontarf depots.

Dublin Bus says a significant number of drivers based in Clontarf have returned to work after earlier joining a stoppage that has severely disrupted public transport in the capital this morning.

Thousands of commuters were facing massive travel chaos today after a wildcat strike at Dublin Bus hit services on 39 routes.

THOUSANDS of commuters in Dublin could face travel difficulties today after a strike yesterday affected 19 bus routes in the city.

ANOTHER League of Ireland club has another day in court today as Bohemians prepare themselves for the verdict in a dispute which has held up its move from Dalymount Park to a new green-field site near Dublin airport.

THERE has been a strike or threat of strike in every form of public transport in the country over the last 12 months.

Normal services are expected to resume in Dublin's northside today after unions at Dublin Bus accepted proposals to end their week-long strike.

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.

Workers at Dublin Bus will today consider a Labour Court proposal to resolve a dispute with management which has caused travel chaos to thousands of commuters.

AER LINGUS passengers will breathe a sigh of relief today if, as expected, SIPTU shop stewards agree to defer a threatened strike planned for next week.

Dublin Bus users in the north and west of the city are facing a fifth day of disruption today as drivers continue their strike action.

Thousands of commuters are facing further disruption today as Dublin Bus drivers take to the picket lines for the fourth day.

Up to 500 Dublin Bus drivers have taken part in a protest in Dublin city centre today as part of the strike action taking place at the company's Harristown depot.

Unions representing striking drivers at Dublin Bus say they are confident that the Labour Court can resolve the dispute centring around the introduction of two new routes.

Up to 60,000 commuters are hoping for a breakthrough today in the bus dispute which has left them stranded since Monday.

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.

Dublin Bus drivers based at the Harristown depot in the north of the city are beginning a second day of strike action today over the introduction of two new routes.

DUBLIN Bus passengers on 36 city routes will have little or no service for a second day today as the company and unions refuse to back down in their dispute over the Harristown depot.

Further transport disruption was threatened tonight after trade union bosses served strike action notice on Aer Lingus.

The Independent Business Organisation, ISME, has called for an immediate suspension of industrial action by unions in Dublin Bus in the dispute at Harristown garage in North Dublin.

Tens of thousands of commuters are facing disruption today due to a strike by Dublin Bus drivers based in the north of the city.

Dublin Bus customers in the city's north-side are facing disruption tomorrow.

Disruption to thousands of Dublin Bus customers is possible from tomorrow.

Dublin Bus is appealing to a group of bus drivers to reverse their decision to take industrial action over the implementation of new bus routes and rosters.

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.

Dublin Bus workers based at the company's Harristown depot are reportedly threatening to begin strike action this weekend as part of a row over new routes.

I WISH to thank Bus Átha Cliath for putting new low-floor, wheelchair-accessible buses on the 27B route from Liberty Hall to Harristown via Beaumont Hospital, Castletimon and Coolock Lane in Dublin.

THERE was some competitive fare on offer at the first session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point meeting at Fort Arthur yesterday and Claras Chesnut really brought the meeting to life for many by making every post a winning one in the featured four-mile open.

I AM appalled that a proposal by Transport Minister Martin Cullen to fund 100 new vehicles for Dublin Bus, at a cost of €300 million to the State, is being blocked by Tánaiste Mary Harney who is insisting that the bus market be reformed before any more public money is invested in the company.

NEXT Tuesday was to be one of the proudest days of their lives — attending the graduation of their eldest daughter as a doctor.

Car-parking charges are to rise at Dublin Airport from tomorrow to fund extra facilities in 2006, it was claimed today.

PD Transport spokesman Senator Tom Morrissey (Irish Examiner letters, August 23) offers yet another piece of evasion in his response to my letter pointing out how that party’s policy on Dublin bus transport was ideologically driven (Irish Examiner letters, August 15).

WITH their home event just a week away, Irish drivers, Colin Turkington and Gavin Smith will be hoping to improve their current positions within the British Touring Car Championship in Sunday’s three rounds at Croft.

A €48m bus depot has been opened close to Dublin airport.