{"id":306338,"date":"2026-02-19T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306338\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:24:07","slug":"councillor-describes-busy-north-kerry-bus-stop-as-completely-impractical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306338\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor describes busy North Kerry bus stop as completely impractical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A North Kerry bus stop is not fit for purpose and can\u2019t even be called a bus stop anymore.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Fine Gael <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrycoco.ie\/councillors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">councillor Aoife Kennelly<\/a>, who raised a motion at the recent Listowel MD meeting.<\/p>\n<p>She requested that urgent improvements be made to the bus stop in Duagh which she described as completely impractical.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the council stated the National Transport Authority (NTA) is responsible for the funding, planning and delivery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/94-locations-across-kerry-chosen-for-bus-stops-422805\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">these projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It added the capital delivery unit (North) proposes to undertake consultations with Bus \u00c9ireann and other stakeholders, for improved public transport infrastructure in Duagh.<\/p>\n<p>The motion was seconded by Sinn F\u00e9in councillor, Tom Barry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Kerry bus stop is not fit for purpose and can\u2019t even be called a bus stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,48210],"class_list":["post-306338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306338","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=306338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}