By Christy Parker | Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

Youghal Town Council’s September meeting rejected a motion from Cllr Barbara Murray to liaise with Bus Eireann with a view to relocating the bus stop at the Fair Field the width of the footpath back, to facilitate traffic flow when a bus is parked. Presently, buses cause visual impediment to drivers exiting the car park and also slow traffic flow. 

Cllr Sammy Revins abstained from voting as it he had previously tabled a successful motion to have the stop relocated to New Catherine Street (opp. Back of AIB), precisely for the reasons now being advocated by Cllr Murray. This initiative has since come a Read more

By Christy Parker | Photos by Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

Youghal Cllr Mary – Linehan Foley wants Bus Eireann to abode by an agreement to relocate the Waterford-Cork bus stop from the Fair Field to the back street, near the AIB entrance. In ludicrous fashion, the agreement has seen the site now road marked as a bus stop -amidst advanced plans for a shelter- but not operating as one! Meanwhile the traffic chaos that the new stop was intended to alleviate continues unabated at the Fair Field stop.

The councillor was informed at the March Town Council meeting that Bus Eireann had changed its mind after apparently one complaint that the new location was ‘lonely and desolate.’ Cllr Linehan Foley said she Read more