Concern as rural transport pilot ends

RURAL isolation will be heightened by a government decision not to renew funding for a night-time transport scheme, it has been claimed.

Irish Rural Link was responding to a government decision not to renew funding for the €500,000 pilot in seven areas.

For the past year, groups have operated the night-time service in east and west Cork, Cavan, Sligo, Roscommon, Donegal and Laois.