Further snap bus and rail strikes signalled for next week

Bus Éireann workers have vowed to hit train, Dublin Bus and Dart services with further unannounced wildcat strikes again next week disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of commuters each day.

Just hours before yesterday morning’s chaos, Dermot O’Leary of the National Bus and Rail Union issued a statement warning that “the palpable anger among Bus Éireann workers is making it extremely difficult for this trade union to hold the line with regards to preventing contagion across the entire public transport sector”.

The unofficial pickets were mounted at 4am and remained in place for a number of hours before Dublin Bus and Irish Rail services finally began to roll again in mid-morning.