Bus unions set to announce targeted strike actions

Bus unions are to announce a range of targeted strike actions today as the crisis in Bus Éireann intensifies.

Reacting to calls to intervene in the standoff between the bus company and unions, Transport Minister Shane Ross said his intervention “would do more damage than good”.

He called on both sides to go into negotiations “with a blank sheet of paper” but added that he did not believe a range of cost-cutting measures announced by Bus Éireann amounted to pre-conditions.