{"id":389612,"date":"2026-04-09T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:49:11","slug":"coach-tourism-and-transport-council-of-ireland-not-involved-in-fuel-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389612\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Tourism and Transport Council of Ireland not involved in fuel protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\">The Coach Tourism and Transport Council of Ireland has re-iterated its stance regarding the ongoing fuel protests, which have now entered a third day, confirming that it is not involved in the planning or coordination of the protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">CEO David Conway said: \u201cOur position has not changed. There is no doubt that bus and coach operators are facing sustained and serious cost\u00a0pressures and\u00a0are dealing with\u00a0a very challenging\u00a0operating environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cThe CTTC is\u00a0not and\u00a0will not be involved in the planning or coordination of the fuel\u00a0protest and we will not be taking part in it. We would ask protestors to keep bus lanes clear so that buses and coaches can move freely around the country and help keep Ireland moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cOur efforts\u00a0remain\u00a0firmly directed towards working with Government, in particular the Department of Finance, and the Department of Transport, to seek practical measures that will\u00a0assist\u00a0our members during this period of exceptional cost inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ftai.ie\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FTA-Ireland-Banner1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"FTA Ireland\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coach Tourism and Transport Council of Ireland has re-iterated its stance regarding the ongoing fuel protests, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[172902,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-389612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-coach-tourism-and-transport-council-of-ireland","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389612","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=389612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}