{"id":348199,"date":"2026-03-15T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348199\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:30:13","slug":"wexford-bus-managing-director-on-fuel-crisis-were-looking-to-just-stand-still-or-at-least-not-lose-our-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348199\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford Bus managing director on fuel crisis: \u2018We\u2019re looking to just stand still, or at least not lose our shirt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Brendan Crowley, the man who runs one of Ireland\u2019s most successful private bus companies, believes government intervention is needed\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wexford Bus MD Brendan Crowley.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1d770413-0c7b-495b-ba0e-8ed50a3a248d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Wexford Bus MD Brendan Crowley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The managing director of Wexford Bus, a major transport company which carriers in excess of a million customers each year on 1,500 weekly journeys, said there has been a near 20pc increase in the price of diesel in the last week alone and that his fear is the longer the war goes on \u201cthe longer it will take prices to moderate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brendan Crowley, who started the business in 1996 and was last year appointed the Coach Tourism and Transport Council of Ireland (CTTC), said wages and fuel are far and away the company\u2019s two biggest operating costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Crowley, the man who runs one of Ireland\u2019s most successful private bus companies, believes government intervention is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,3502,61,60],"class_list":["post-348199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cillian-boggan","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348199","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=348199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}