{"id":408043,"date":"2026-03-28T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/408043\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:26:13","slug":"bus-eireann-to-withdraw-three-expressway-routes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/408043\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Eireann to withdraw three Expressway routes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bus Eireann has confirmed it is to withdraw a number of its expressway routes from the end of May following a review of the service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">But it said there would be no impact on jobs at the transport company as a result of dropping the services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bus Eireann said it would discontinue route 4 between Waterford and Dublin\/Dublin Airport, route 52 between Ballina and Galway, and the route 40 segment between Rosslare\/Wexford \u2013 Waterford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2025\/11\/10\/bus-eireann-expressway-routes-viability-under-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Expressway services <\/a>are run on a fully commercial basis by the company and do not receive financial support from the exchequer. In many cases, such services face competition on the routes from private-sector rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The routes will be withdrawn from May 24th, Bus Eireann said. Customers who have booked journeys on the impacted services will be refunded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cGiven the scale of our operations, there will be no impact on jobs given our current recruitment needs,\u201d Bus Eireann said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last year The Irish Times reported the State-owned transport company was undertaking a review of the viability of Expressway routes it operated. Although all the Expressway routes were part of the review, there were five under specific focus: Dublin to Wexford, Dublin to Waterford, Limerick to Tralee and Killarney, Rosslare to Waterford and Tralee, as well as Galway to Ballina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Analysis of Expressway routes carried out by consultants Grant Thornton for the company found that if these services continued unchanged, there would be a negative impact of \u20ac20.58 million on its five-year combined Ebitda [earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation] on the Routes under specific examination are from Dublin to Wexford, Dublin to Waterford, Limerick to Tralee and Killarney, Rosslare to Waterford and Tralee, as well as Galway to Ballina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bus Eireann has previously discontinued Expressway services, with routes between Dublin and Cork, Galway and Limerick cut in September 2020, arguing these routes were loss-making. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bus Eireann has confirmed it is to withdraw a number of its expressway routes from the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[17208,79,18,1878,19,17,5049],"class_list":["post-408043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bus-eireann","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-galway","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-waterford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116305381492501898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}