Bus and rail strike averted as airport chaos looms

AER RIANTA workers are expected to give the go-ahead today for stoppages at Ireland’s three airports that will scuttle the visits of officials and ministers during our EU presidency.

But strike action on bus and rail services was temporarily averted yesterday after the CIÉ group of unions accepted an invitation to meet Transport Minister Seamus Brennan in a bid to resolve a row over the future of the company.

The CIÉ unions stressed they were doing this reluctantly, given the history of similar invitations and insisted that their mandate for industrial action remains very much alive.