Article: Protests Halt Irish Bus, Train Service

SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
02-16-2004
Dateline: DUBLIN, Ireland
A four-hour strike by union workers interrupted bus and train services across Ireland on Monday stranding thousands of commuters, while doctors refused to perform non-emergency operations in a separate protest.

Ireland's two major unions for bus and train workers ordered the stoppage in several cities to protest government plans to break up the state-owned transportation company, Coras Iompair Eireann, or CIE.

Deputy Prime Minister Mary Harney said the government wants to transfer control so no single company could bring the capital's buses to a standstill as happened Monday.

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