Cars roll on as commuters spend nearly 7 hours a week travelling

IRELAND is a nation of commuters highly dependent on cars, with public transport only easily accessed by half of the rural population.

They are the major findings of research on Irish travel patterns, which also revealed that Irish commuters spend an average of six-and-three-quarter hours on journeys each week, covering 221 kilometres.

They also take 2.4 journeys on average each day with the average journey of 13km taking 24 minutes to complete.