Protest disrupts bus services

Residents who disrupted several Cork City bus services yesterday have vowed to mount more lightning blockades of the city’s bus depot unless service cutbacks to their area are reversed.

About 20 residents from the Glen area, who are fighting service reductions on the number 12 route, blocked Bus Eireann’s Capwell Rd depot from 6.30am yesterday.

They prevented several buses from leaving until 7.30am, causing widespread disruption and delays to several early morning bus services.