Michael Moynihan: Seeing Cillian Murphy on the 208 bus would surely improve its image

What better way encourage people to come back to using the bus than our most famous artists hopping on

Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh board a bus on the Grand Parade in Cork in 1996 in advance of the premiere run of Disco Pigs. Picture: Eddie O'Hare/Irish Examiner Archive

Last week, we learned just how many complaints the National Transport Authority received about bus services in Ireland.

Up to May this year, the NTA said 5,984 complaints about bus services were made, up to May 19, the cut-off.