Disruption to rail services will continue today with no sign of a solution to the deadlock between Iarnrod Eireann and the Irish Locomotive Drivers' Association (ILDA). A spokesman for Iarnrod Eireann, Mr Myles McHugh, said the situation as the disruption moved towards a seventh week was "as deadlocked as ever".
He said Cork would have fewer than 40 per cent of its normal train services today, while about half the usual number would run in Waterford. No trains would travel the route to Westport beyond Athlone.
Two-thirds of suburban trains from Dublin will operate as normal, while 50 per cent of the Kildare/Dublin service will run.
Normal services to Galway, Sligo, Rosslare and Belfast will operate.
Iarnrod Eireann refuses to enter into negotiations with ILDA on grounds the breakaway body is not a recognised union. However, an ILDA spokesman, Mr Finbar Masterson, said his organisation had taken legal advice.od Eireann.on the matter.
He said members of his organisation were angry at the decision of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Enterprise and Transport not to hear a submission from the ILDA during its meeting on Tuesday.
Iarnrod Eireann's passenger information line is 1850 366222.
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