Four hour bus/rail work stoppage ends
The four hour transport blackout across the country has come to an end.
The demonstration by the NBRU and SIPTU was in protest at Government plans to break up the CIE monopoly.
Protest letters have been handed into the Transport Minister, Seamus Brennan, and the board of CIE. Although the protest has now ended it is likely to be some hours before the public transport network is back to normal.
Bus Eireann spokesman, Cyril McIntyre, says expressway services will take the longest.
"In Cork, Limerick and Galway cities staff have already resumed duty on the basis that they want to be in place to cater for children coming home from school. The problem with the expressway workings is that a lot of these routes have connections with other services and we are dependent on buses being in place that should have operated earlier to run them. It will take to about tea-time this evening to get these routes back to normal."
