Irish Rail and Dublin Bus to support Bus Éireann; all-out transport strike on the cards

A national transport strike is now on the cards with Irish Rail and Dublin Bus workers expected to follow their colleagues in Bus Éireann onto the picket lines.

Hundreds of thousands of commuters have already been left stranded since Friday, as the fifth day of an all-out strike at Bus Éireann begins.

The board of the transport company was yesterday unable to sign off on its 2016 accounts and could not set a budget for the year ahead because of its precarious financial situation which has put it on the brink of insolvency.