Drivers put brakes on bus stoppages
However the threat of further strike remains unless a deal is reached in a dispute over pay. Should the talks fail, the tens of thousands expected to travel to Croke Park on Saturday for the replay of the men’s Senior All-Ireland Football Final between Dublin and Mayo will be hit be a scheduled strike.
Yesterday, trade union Siptu and the National Bus and Rail Workers’ Union (NBRU) accepted a request by the Workplace Relations Commission to defer the strikes they had planned for today and tomorrow to allow for four days of intensive negotiations aimed at resolving the dispute.
