Tag Archives: Dublin Bus

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Is your name James?

Are you one year old TODAY?

Sean writes:

Did your grandfather get the [Dublin Bus]  44 this morning towards O’Connell Street and leave your present in his seat?
You have a terrible grandfather.
And I have your present.
Welcome to the world, James….
Please get in touch with broadsheet to swap email addresses. My office is on the 44 route by Merrion Square…

Anyone?

DublniBus

Gary Ó’Nualláin tweetz:

€3.05 single fare for this? Dublin Bus really is a disgrace. This is what happens when you allow one company a monopoly.

UPDATE: Photograph was posted on Spotted On Dublin Bus Facebook page yesterday.

17A

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…mee-oww.

Kind of.

Paul Hargreaves writes:

“I was sitting on the dirty 17a Bus yesterday in the rain and noticed how nice the window wipers sounded. I decided to record it and looped it up on my MPC and recorded a little live session dedicated to those mundane mornings on Dublin Bus.”

Pic: Irish Buses

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Ah here.

MUTE!

Alana O’Brien writes:

A video I recorded on my way home from work on the 66 bus last night [Dublin city centre to Lucan village]. For 50 mins, this child was SCREAMING. The’mother’ and her friend ignored him and continued to laugh and chat. He was so upset he started getting sick, still the mother wouldn’t pick him up.
The poor bus driver was so distracted and stressed from the screams he was called the gardaí! He did ask her about 10 times, would she pick up and comfort the child…but the response was “DONT TELL ME HOW TO RAISE MY CHILD!” I still have a headache…

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Update: Strike off (for the moment)

Except in tiny little circles on the pavement.

Members of SIPTU and NBRU trade unions at Ringsend bus station, Ringsend, Dublin, this afternoon on the third day of strike action by Dublin Bus drivers.

NBRU spokesperson Dermot O’Leary said: “Our members are willing to sit down and talk with management but it’s up to Government ministers to intervene.”

However…

Mr [Leo] Varadkar [Transport minister] said: “There was a time in the past when ministers would intervene personally and directly to solve the problem with taxpayers’ money. That’s not the way Ireland works any more, and it’s never going to work like that again.”

 

Labour Court seeking to arrange Dublin Bus talks (RTE)

Meanwhile,

90309548-1Members of the Irish Army preparing to ferry stranded passengers during a national bus strike in July, 1984.

(Sasko Lazarov/Eamon Farrell Photocall Ireland)