*Photograph: Joe Buckley
A PROTEST is to be held on Thursday morning in Sixmilebridge as parents, students and locals react to plans for the pilot school transport system for secondary school pupils heading to Shannon.
Following a public meeting on Tuesday evening, plans were put in place to hold a protest in Sixmilebridge on Thursday morning.
Speaking to The Clare Echo, Aoife Keogh who has two children that will be travelling via the new service said, “we are planning a protest, we’re not happy that the safety of the students and our children hasn’t been taken into account”.
She was among the parents delegation that met with officials from Bus Éireann on Tuesday afternoon. “We went into the meeting and asked Bus Éireann for a health and safety assessment and we found out that they never did a health and safety assessment despite 450 students being added onto the service”.
Locals will be gathering outside McGregor’s Pub from 07:20 on Thursday morning with organisers hopeful they will have in the region of 280 people present.
