{"id":453624,"date":"2026-04-25T18:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/453624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:43:38","slug":"2fm-breakfast-host-aisling-bonner-on-becoming-a-busfluencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/453624\/","title":{"rendered":"2FM Breakfast host Aisling Bonner on becoming a busfluencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\n2FM Breakfast co-host Aisling Bonner looks back over the joy she has found in one year of a daily bus commute\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Among those grateful for the Dublin Bus service includes fellow commuter and former president Mary Robinson. Graphic: Clare Meredith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/64ba058f-ebaf-4cff-ab20-e3630508404f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Among those grateful for the Dublin Bus service includes fellow commuter and former president Mary Robinson. Graphic: Clare Meredith<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I recently marked one year of commuting home from work on the bus. It was a humble event. I didn\u2019t share it on LinkedIn under the heading \u2018personal news\u2019, I didn\u2019t nudge the passenger beside me saying \u2018guess what\u2019, and I wasn\u2019t awarded the Coppers Gold Card version of a Leap Card by the driver. I kept things low-key. I\u2019m aware that there are far longer-serving veterans of public transport than me, those who have grown weary of condensation-laden windows, disappearing ghost buses and mouthy lads with Bluetooth speakers. Those people would probably hate to see me alight the bus, full of optimism and tapping on with a smile. They would roll their eyes and return to their audio books and that\u2019s fair enough. Maybe I\u2019ll be like them when I grow up, but, for now, year one has been good to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019ve had interesting conversations with quirky characters; I\u2019ve invented games which keep my journeys interesting and I\u2019ve even rubbed shoulders with a former president of Ireland. I am fast becoming a Busfluencer \u2013 someone who really, really likes the bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2FM Breakfast co-host Aisling Bonner looks back over the joy she has found in one year of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[11802,18,11985,117,19,17,34992,76142],"class_list":{"0":"post-453624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dublin-bus","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-electric-picnic","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-mary-robinson","15":"tag-rte-2fm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116466825119906118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453624","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=453624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}