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Dublin Bus ordered to pay out €143,000 for passenger’s crushed foot

Maybe all the money squirreled away from unclaimed change receipts on the buses could be used by Dublin Bus to pay out all these compensation claims. It’s not clear what route this happened on, maybe the 70N?
The Irish Times [subs required] reports:
A man has secured €143,000 damages from the High Court after he had to [...]

Blind man awarded €3,000 for insults from bus driver

Anne-Marie Walsh Reporting for the Irish Independent writes:
A blind man has been awarded €3,000 for suffering discrimination when a driver remarked “your wife is no use to you now” as he struggled to board a Dublin bus in his wheelchair.
Neill King said the driver made the comment after his wife got on the bus to [...]

Dublin man steals bus and goes on the rampage

From
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0508/dublin.html
:
A 61-year-old woman died in yesterday’s incident, when a bus was driven at speed on the Naas road dual carriageway and in the LUAS tramway. More than a dozen people were injured in the incident. The bus had been taken from the Dualway Coach depot in Rathcoole, south county Dublin.
Gardaí fired shots at three [...]

Neglected, Abandoned, Scrapped & Delayed

We Examine The Current State Of Irish Public Transport

The Metro has been abandoned, the Luas delayed, and extensions to the project cancelled. CIE is to be scrapped, rail lines are being closed, bus services are being axed due to underfunding, other bus services are being privatised, integrated smart-card style ticketing plans (which were due to [...]

Supreme Court appeal against AA Roadwatch

William Campbell is taking his battle with RTE and The Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) all the way to the Supreme Court, following a High Court decision which did not rule in his favour.
Campbell maintains that the broadcasting of AA Roadwatch is in breach of the Broadcasting Act. Firstly, AA Roadwatch is part of the current [...]

Brave new world - Dublin Bus steps into the future

DB (Dublin Bus) has finally given some target dates for the next phases of it’s modernization.
The plans themselves have, in the main, been announced several times before.
However, it seems DB feel they must announce their future plans again (and again) in the run up to the next general election, to discourage any feeling among politicians [...]

Buses return to Tallaght.

Following consultation between the Gardai, Dublin Bus Management and the Drivers, it has been agreed to reinstate the bus service to areas around Tallaght and beyond, after 6pm every evening.

The service was withdrawn earlier this year, due to local brats attacking and injuring drivers in the area, leaving the rest of the locality without a [...]

BUSRAGE Launched

Everyone has heard of roadrage, because all the decision makers drive cars, but years of waiting for buses in the rain has
led to a new social malaise - BUSRAGE.

The site is a forum for discussion, where users can check dublin bus timetables, see where your bus is on the many
WebCams and even sign a petition [...]