Petition: Reliable Buses Now

Affected by a no-show or ghost bus? Report it below (direct link here) and please consider signing the petition below.

We the undersigned call for:

  1. An action plan to end Ghost Buses in 2025: Transport for Ireland should provide details of how they will end the no show fiasco, and ensure all cancelled buses are properly reported and updated on the live travel information
  2. Recruit & retain bus workers and mechanics: We support the workers in their fight for proper pay, conditions and union rights so we can recruit and retain the staff needed for a reliable bus service
  3. Increase investment in public transport from the government, to increase the frequency and reliability
  4. End the privatisation experiment: No to the renewal of contracts with Go-Ahead or giving them more routes, instead bring them back under Dublin Bus, as a step to reversing privatisation of public transport.

We believe privatisation has failed, and that would be made clear by a genuine public review of the privatisation experiment across public transport by workers and commuters, including opening the books of the private operators to see the profits being made. Instead, we believe public transport should be a public service: free, fast and frequent.

Who's signing

James Foy
Caroline Maher Rowsome
Linda Maher
Filip B
Georgina Dwyer
Tim Cullen
Joshua O’Connell
Gary Merin
Alan Campbell
Caoimhe Carton
Dee NÍ Mharnáin
Jennifer's Mcmanamon
Mark Dempsey
matt mion
Rachel Merrigan
Nicola Clarke
Callyann Brennan
Ciara Lyons
Paul Brady
Esther Lyons
Rebecca Murphy
175 signatures

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Report a no show bus here

The Dublin Inquirer has launched noshowbus.ie as a platform for people to report no show and ghost buses, so they can be tracked, highlighted and pressure brought on to improve the situation. If you experience a no show bus, you can report it using the form below:

  • Trevor Kinghorne
    signed 2025-03-20 21:26:31 +0000
  • James Foy
    signed 2025-03-07 10:08:34 +0000
  • Caroline Maher Rowsome
    signed 2025-03-06 17:05:58 +0000
  • Linda Maher
    signed 2025-03-06 08:44:55 +0000
  • Andreia Marcuta
    signed 2025-03-05 15:58:32 +0000
  • Filip B
    signed 2025-03-05 07:56:08 +0000
    How will this website improve the current situation? Even main stream media refuses to report on this issue!
  • Georgina Dwyer
    signed 2025-03-05 07:07:05 +0000
    I require the S6 to get to and from work and it is so unreliable. So many instances of ghost buses and cancelled services leaving the staff and students of UCD stranded
  • Kealan Stewart
    signed 2025-03-04 23:30:42 +0000
  • Tim Cullen
    signed 2025-03-04 00:59:24 +0000
    I urgently need to get into town, but my car won’t start. I have no money as I’m nearly 12 months behind on my loan payments and cannot afford my bills anymore. I have been on long-term sick leave due to extreme depression and severe anxiety and 10 months waiting a referral to see a mental health specialist. I’ve tried so hard to get help but no one, no matter where I turn is willing to help me! I receive €244 weekly in illness benefits, which is not enough to get by. No one is willing to help me, and my mental health is in a much more precarious state than when I last worked in October 2023.


    Due to suspected hard failure, with symptoms, it takes 35 minutes to walk to the bus stop at Coolamber Park from Boden Park, but the bus (number 15), which is advertised as running every 15 or 30 minutes online, is displayed as, next due: 50 minutes? . It’s now 12:49 AM, and this situation has been the straw that broke this camels back. I’m suffering from severe anxiety, and without my car, I feel stranded, alone, and scared at night. And have been let down again by state( really privitisrd) “public” transport. I have an urgent need for transportation, and this state once again refuses to help its vulnerable!


    Shame on the leaders of this country!
  • Kirsten Lee
    signed 2025-03-03 21:12:58 +0000
  • Wayne Smyth
    signed 2025-03-03 18:02:33 +0000
  • Joshua O’Connell
    signed 2025-03-03 10:30:15 +0000
  • Níamh Redmond
    signed 2025-03-02 23:24:28 +0000
  • Maurice Dalton
    signed 2025-03-01 22:44:27 +0000
    As a driver I feel Dublin bus are doing their best with the support they are receiving. If every department in the Government ran as well as Dublin bus. We wouldn’t even have a A&E problem
  • Gary Merin
    signed 2025-03-01 19:51:40 +0000
  • Alan Campbell
    signed via 2025-03-01 00:04:10 +0000
  • Caoimhe Carton
    signed 2025-02-28 22:02:20 +0000
  • Dee NÍ Mharnáin
    signed 2025-02-28 21:04:32 +0000
  • Jennifer's Mcmanamon
    signed 2025-02-28 20:55:16 +0000
  • Mark Dempsey
    signed 2025-02-27 19:09:43 +0000
    Waiting since 6.30 pm and it’s 7.10pm as of writing with 3 no show buses so far
  • ciaran Lang
    signed 2025-02-27 14:34:56 +0000
    Bray and greystones is bad
  • matt mion
    signed 2025-02-26 19:27:09 +0000
  • Rachel Merrigan
    signed 2025-02-26 17:50:30 +0000
  • Cian Prendiville
    published this page 2025-02-26 13:35:21 +0000
  • Nicola Clarke
    signed 2025-02-25 23:17:47 +0000
  • Callyann Brennan
    signed 2025-02-25 22:37:04 +0000
  • Ciara Lyons
    signed 2025-02-25 21:31:35 +0000
  • Paul Brady
    signed 2025-02-25 20:41:03 +0000
  • Esther Lyons
    signed 2025-02-25 20:22:07 +0000
    The Bus 54a is unreliable
  • Rebecca Murphy
    signed 2025-02-25 20:20:57 +0000

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