Abandoned in Milltown
Children left on the side of the road in another school bus fiasco
ANOTHER group of schoolchildren were left on the side of the road in North Galway on Monday, as parents of primary and secondary school children in Milltown found out at 8.48am that morning that their children would be without a working bus service from Monday to Thursday of this week.
The email was sent to parents by Bus Éireann’s School Transport Team in Galway and was seen by The Tuam Herald. The email said that due to “unforeseen circumstances”, the bus bringing children to primary school in Milltown and secondary school in Tuam was out of action until this Friday.
However, this newspaper has spoken to a group of school bus drivers in the Tuam area, all employees of Bus Éireann, who say that the driver for these routes applied for driver leave three weeks ago.
A similar situation was covered in these pages on October 4, detailing how more than 50 teenagers in the Caherlistrane area have been left without a regular school bus service to Tuam since September 20…
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