Rural bus cuts issue to grow [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 29 June 2011
A CAMPAIGN to stop cuts to primary school buses in rural areas is "only just beginning" according to activists who have mobilised up to 600 parents from schools across Munster.
Parents in the Kerry region said a meeting in Listowel on Monday was just the start of what would turn into a national campaign to halt the erosion of the social fabric of rural life.
Sean O’Sullivan from Tuosist, near Kenmare, said 60% of pupils at Realt na Mara national school would be affected by cutting bus routes.
He said some children had to travel up to 10 miles to get to school because of smaller schools being amalgamated in the past. Mr O’Sullivan said if children from the parish could no longer go to the school it would "devastate" the social fabric of the area.
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