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The proposal to introduce school bus charges of €500 per annum for primary school children who are currently entitled to free travel and an additional €200 per secondary school child has been condemned.

Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny TD, has condemned the adjustments to school transport fees where pupils must pay bus fees for the full year rather than the two-term payment system. Many families will be affected as the normal fees have already skyrocketed but now they must also pay the full annual payment even if only using the service for one term.  

Scoil Raifteirí in Castlebar along with 19 other Mayo schools are in the throes of preparing to receive their fourth green flags. The latest addition to the Green Flag project is the Green Schools travel initiative which was piloted in the east and is being rolled out in Mayo for the first time to 20 schools who have already received the first three green flags.

A customised school bus operating as a mini-cinema is to visit County Mayo in May to spread the school transport safety message to local children.

A customised school bus operating as a mini-cinema is to visit County Mayo in August to spread the school transport safety message to local children.

A customised school bus operating as a mini-cinema is to visit Swinford in August to spread the school transport safety message to local children.

Proposed plans to provide bus set-down areas and bus shelters with timetable information are strictly for commercial use and will not be used for school buses Kilkenny Borough Council members heard this week.

Some 60 per cent of Galway secondary school pupils are unhappy with the city’s bus service citing the lack of buses, lateness, overcrowding, and no dedicated school routes, as being among the problems.