Cancer patient pleads for bus ‘lifeline’ to continue

A CANCER patient begged Bus Éireann last night not to axe her “lifeline” bus route.

The woman, who is being treated for breast cancer and who asked not to be named, uses the under-threat number 1 orbital bus service several times a week to get from her home on Cork’s northside to Cork University Hospital (CUH) in Wilton for treatment.

But the service is one of two northside city routes facing the axe as part of Bus Éireann cost-cutting proposals designed to plug a €20 million hole in its finances.