Train drivers threaten action

Train drivers are threatening to go on strike if CIE management go ahead with plans to delay a 3% pay rise.

CIE are proposing the delay in order to recoup the €1.2m losses incurred during last Friday's "No Fares" protest.

The Irish Locomotive Drivers Association is warning that it will take action against any interference in the National Wage Agreement pay rise by the company.

The leader of the breakaway group Brendan Ogle says the train drivers were not involved in the refusal to collect fares and were not prepared to lose out on pay as a result.