Pensioners and children in protest to save bus services

PENSIONERS, mothers and children took to the streets of Cork yesterday in the first of a series of rolling protests to save under-threat bus services.

Almost 100 people blocked the main road in the Glen area of the city to demand Bus Éireann reverse its decision to cancel the number 12 bus service to Blackpool, Dublin Hill, The Glen and Dillon’s Cross. They staged another protest on the route at lunchtime.

A third protest will take place in Mayfield today over proposals to axe the number one orbital route which links Bishopstown to the northside.