Irish Rail seeks to shed ‘minimum’ of 450 jobs

Irish Rail is to seek a minimum of 450 voluntary redundancies over the next four years as part of a bid to bridge a €43m deficit.

This week, the company agreed a €12m range of measures with its unions, including cuts to entitlements, pension arrangements, and reduced expenses rates.

This is on top of previous rounds of job cuts at the commercial semi-state company, which saw numbers employed fall from more than 6,000 to 4,100.