Call to update school bus service that’s as old as Armstrong moon walk

OUTDATED school bus arrangements have not changed since Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon.

Now the Green Party wants an end to the history lesson and the service brought more into line with modern times. Catchment areas, which decide which children can take what bus to what school, were first drawn up in 1969 and have not been reviewed since.

At that time Jack Lynch was Taoiseach, the Troubles in the North were only beginning and the country was still four years away from joining the EEC. More importantly for today’s pupils, some of the communities they now live in were not even built at the time, while some of the schools that were then in operation have closed or merged in the intervening 35 years and new ones have sprung up.