Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann has spent over \u20ac200k on transfer buses from Mallow to Cork Kent Station since the beginning of this year, due to parts of the train line being closed.<\/p>\n
When construction works mean part of the line is unusable, passengers will get off the train a stop or two earlier and coaches hired by the train company from private companies will take them the remainder of the way.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann said: \u201cWe have been undertaking significant works associated with the Cork Area Commuter Rail, and maintenance of Cork Tunnel during 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has resulted in regular late evening and weekend works which have necessitated bus transfers between Mallow and Cork.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrimarily arising from this, there has been \u20ac202,368 in planned bus hire costs between Cork and Mallow in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n
The information was provided to Cork North Central Labour TD Eoghan Kenny, who told The Echo the amount of money was \u201cabsolutely ridiculous\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI welcome developments, I believe it is necessary, but I do not expect delays and the renting of private buses at a cost to the ordinary member of the public, who pay their taxes.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
He asked why a public bus service could not be provided, and why works could not be completed at night time when trains do not run.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to the spending of public money, there is very little thought put into the completion of works. The department must clarify if spending of this amount of money is going to continue and for how long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iarnr\u00f3d \u00c9ireann has spent over \u20ac200k on transfer buses from Mallow to Cork Kent Station since the beginning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,34580,61,60,16455,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-115886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-cork-transport","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-irish-rail","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}