CIE ‘charade’ over transport service

So, let’s recap. Minister Varadkar gave the CIÉ companies €36m because they are broke and he wanted to avoid loss of services.

Despite this, Iarnród Eireann is proceeding with plans to cut inter-city services.

Also despite this, Bus Éireann has just opened a new Cork/Dublin express service with introductory rates that are so low the service is likely to be loss-making.