Night buses ‘more likely to go to Mass than the pub’

TAXPAYER-funded late night “booze-buses” could be operating in rural areas by election day — but Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon Ó Cuiv insists they are more likely to ferry people to Mass than the pub.

Pilot schemes in five country districts will be selected after Easter in a year-long project costing €500,000 a year.

Mr Ó Cuiv strongly attacked claims the service was intended to “ferry drunks up and down every byway in rural Ireland”.