Irish Examiner view: Plan must help every sector

BusConnects Cork

Dermot O'Leary, General Secretary and Brian Hannigan, General President at the National Bus & Rail Union conference at theMaryborough Hotel, Douglas, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

The National Transport Authority’s BusConnects plan for Cork continues to provoke what might euphemistically be termed lively debate in parts of the city which will be affected if the plan goes ahead.

Earlier this week, Taoiseach Micheál Martin criticised the plan strongly, and a key constituency has since weighed in — the union representing those bus drivers who will, in time, be driving the routes concerned.