Thousands of passengers left waiting for bus strikes to arrive

Once again, the public play a waiting game to find out when our travel plans are to be thrown into chaos by a full-blown and probably indefinite Bus Éireann stoppage.

Following Monday night’s collapse of talks between unions and management on how to knock €12m off the staff pay bill, the board of the bus company will gather once again this morning to look at its options, including potentially deciding a date for the implementation of a series of controversial cuts.

As Siptu said in the aftermath of the talks collapse, strike action is “unavoidable”.