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THE MAJORITY OF Dublin Bus drivers have accepted a new pay deal from management, ensuring that no further days of strike action will go ahead.
Drivers from both Siptu and the National Bus and Rail Union accepted the pay proposals.
The drivers with the NBRU accepted pay proposals from the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) by a margin of 79% to 21%.
The margin was tighter with Siptu drivers. With 58% accepting the pay deal and 42% rejecting it.
The other grades that Siptu represents voted in favour by majorities of between 70% to 90%.
Results from three smaller unions are expected after the weekend.
Transport Minister Shane Ross said that he welcomed the news but noted that there were further ballots to take place.
NBRU general secretary Dermot O’Leary said that drivers had accepted the new proposals “despite reservations” about some of the issues.
“In doing so our members have once again demonstrated that it is their desire to continue to provide a public bus transport service to the citizens of our capital city despite the lack of support by the State in providing sufficient subvention,” he said.
The pay proposal involves an annual pay increase of 11.6% over the next 15 months.
Siptu division organiser Owen Reidy said the planned strikes for October would now not go ahead.
“This result today means that the long running dispute at the company is over and the series of eight scheduled days of work stoppages during October will not now occur,” he said.
Dublin Bus services ground to a halt over a number of days last month as workers took industrial action in a dispute over pay.
Dublin Bus workers were seeking a 15% pay increase over the next three years and a 6% rise they say they were due to get under an agreement in 2009, but which was deferred.
Unions in August rejected a Labour Court-recommended 8.25% increase over the next three years.
After marathon talks at the WRC last week that lasted over 24 hours, a new pay proposal was reached between union representatives and management.
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For which county?
He looks like he’s from Clare!
Granny rule means he can tog out for Wexford.
He should really do 5 nights……. :)
Enough to fill one night would be stretching it.
James Blunt mk2…..
Anyone know how to turn Stetsons into ginger wigs?
I like a few of his songs but is he an 80000 seater stadium kind of entertainer? I think his style is more suited to smaller venue, intimate gigs.
He’s on the verge of selling out 3 nights in Wembley so I’d say he’ll be alright.
Seems like a really nice guy so more power to him, but I find his stuff incredibly bland and boring. Don’t see what all the fuss is about at all. Definetly not suited to a stadium.
Agreed. He is very bland. He does kinda appeal to the tweens so will self enough tickets.
I’ve no doubt he’ll sell tickets, it’s just his music style isn’t suited to a stadium. Ac/Dc, Springsteen, dare I say it, Garth brooks, would fill the stage, create atmosphere and are more suited to stadium gigs.
Ah sorry now, was with us about the rock bands and then you mentioned Garth brooks. Can’t see how he will fill the stage any more or less than ed!
Same was said about The Script and they sold out.
Ed Sheeran is a sound guy. He won’t charge astronomical prices. His belief is that those who aren’t rich should be able to afford to see him.
Like it or not, Garth brooks is renowned as a classic stadium entertainer, huge presence and interaction with the crowds. Proved it last time he was here and is currently proving it in sold out stadiums across America.
Ed seems like a nice lad but slightly underwhelming for me anyway. *queue red thumbs* :P
He’s no more underwhelming than the script all the same
I find him quite whelming.
Iv never been so whelmed
What ever happened to the big rocks bands playing these venues? I would struggle to find the motivation to see him down the local pub than forking out a pile to cash to see him in Croke Park. As for the Script…
Be interesting if they add more nights
I hear 5 is the magic number
All stage equipment is on a big boat in the Irish Sea just waiting to dock. All it needs is confirmation of five dates in croke park.
Your on fire this morning AL.
May as well correct myself…… you’re
X is the magic number
They will add the following night for sure but just won’t announce it till an hour after the first night sells out!
A couple of weekends on Grafton Street more like….
Dear Mr. Aiken,
Dont mess this up!
Don’t forget the GAA as well
Should we call Enda now?
I think Aiken have never actually staged a concert in Croke Park…that debacle last year was their first attempt
Eh they staged the garth concerts in the 90s , they were due to do prince until he pulled out and if memory serves the police was a aiken gig
It’s a far cry from Bruce Springsteen :-(
A young generation that know all his songs off and he has great song writing ability, yea it’s not like Bruce at all.
As a 21 year old who was at Bruce last year, I can say I’m looking forward to this just as much if not more.
People on this are way out of touch with music trends in the country today. People joked about the script on this and they sold out Croke Park in under an hour!
Vicar street would suit him better…..Ed Sheeran has very limited talent.
Is there a rule that Croke Park can only have crap music, Gareth Brooks last year was bad but this fella could be even worse. Can Irish people develop a decent taste in music and not go along with every middle of the road bloke with a guitar that comes along.
Why don’t you worry about your own taste in music and let other people decide what they like?
I’m not worried about my taste in music, I’m worried for anybody who buys a ticket for this crap
@TheDoctor – because other people like what they’re told to like by the radio. e.g. where are all the C’Lo Green fans from 2011 gone?
God I really dislike music snobs! ‘Can Irish people develop a decent taste in music and not go along with every middle of the road bloke with a guitar that comes along.’ Who decides what music is decent? You?
I think people of capable of forming their own opinions of what they consider to be good/bad. Life would be pretty dull if everyone liked the same thing.
‘I’m worried for anybody who buys a ticket for this crap’….. I’m sure fans of Ed Sheeran are touched by your concern for them though.
“I think people of capable of forming their own opinions”
They really aren’t. They jump on bandwagons. Whatever the same 5 songs the radio are playing at the time. It’s Ed Sheeran right now. A few years ago it was Train. C’Lo Green before that. Then The Script.
‘They really aren’t'? Do you speak for the nation of Ireland? Who is ‘they’?
I didn’t jump on the bandwagon for The Script, Train, C’Lo Green etc or are you going to tell me I did in the same way you seem to speak for everyone by saying they aren’t capable of forming their own opinions??
“Who is ‘they’?”
People who listen to the radio. Ed Sheeran is a bandwagon, and you’re on it.
Fecking hipsters. EVERYBODY HATES HIPSTERS.
People like what they like. If you don’t like that, then you are the one with the problem. Hipster.
Ha ha I’m on it? Really? Says who? Oh I forgot, you speak for us all don’t you?
I have no interest in going to see Ed Sheeran. Sorry to ruin your warped opinion that ‘people who listen to the radio’ jump on bandwagons and can’t form their own opinions.
lol – if you’re calling me a hipster, you don’t know what it is. Get off the bandwagon of calling everyone a hipster – seems to be a trend lately.
MOST people don’t “like what they like” – they like what they radio says is cool at that time. Like Ed Sheeran, The Script, Pharrell, Lorde, Blackeyed Peas, Gotye, Tiny Tempah, etc.
Shush down hipster. Nobody cares.
And please, get off the Bandwagon bandwagon.
yeah life would be pretty full of everybody liked the same thing
It’s even duller when everybody likes this repackaged version of James Blunt.
Giving out to people for liking popular music because it’s popular … Using Twitter accounts the second most popular social media website in the world to do so… Shud u two not be using something the rest of us don’t know about so u can come criticise us and tell us were doing it wrong?
Is somebody forcing you to listen to Sheeran stiofandebrun? Is the off button on your radio/ipod broken?? Are you being made go to the gig?
If the answer to all of those questions is no (and I have a sneaky feeling it is) how about you stop worrying about everyone else’s taste in music. Obviously their life is far from dull and quite exciting (for them) as they get to go and see this ‘repackaged version of James Blunt’ aka Ed Sheeran in concert, the only person who’s life seems to be dull is yours if all you have to worry about is the fact that people don’t have the same ‘decent’ (none of us really know if it actually is??) taste in music as you.
@Paul – The Journal only allow Twitter & Facebook accounts, you dope.
“Using Twitter accounts the second most popular social media website in the world to do so”
Says the guy using the most popular.
Aww I think I got under the skin… Yes I use the most popular because I get to talk to people I know. You seem to use Twitter to try to tweet celebrity’s hoping they will respond… Oh and is that u tweeting wwe haha please stop giving out to people for liking ed sheeran when you love men running around in speedos pretending to hit each other.
@Paul – does it get any sadder than scrolling through someone’s old tweets for ‘ammo’?
Wow – bald & ginger – you got it all gong on there Paul!
Yep definitely hit a nerve haha ginger yes bald well yeah I got this thing called cancer. You shouldn’t really judge people by how they look seems like a pretty petty thing to do.
“You shouldn’t really judge people by how they look”
Says the guy who stalks, and then judges people by their Tweets.
Stalks… Clicks on name… How dare I judge people on what they say Hahaha you are brilliant.
These type of arguments actually do a lot for me.
I don’t listen to the radio except in the car and even then it’s sporadic. Of course nobody is forcing me to go to the concert (is that even a serious question?).
I’m hardly worried that people would go to these gigs but it does show a lack of taste in music which is not a great trait.
It’s okay to have strong opinions
“but it does show a lack of taste in music”
Jesus, could you climb any higher up your own arse?
Please tell me in your world of perfect music, who do you listen to? Who would be worthy of your money to go see them play live? Serious question.
@Denis: Steely Dan, the original GNR, Primus, Soundgarden, Victor Wooten, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, Frank Zappa, Greg Howe, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd.
And if you listen to any band/musician other than those listed above by Ian it’s because you ‘don’t like what you like, you like what they radio says is cool at that time’, are only jumping on a bandwagon and have no mind of your own.
I never said that, Aideen.
I’m exclusively referring to people who change their musical tastes depending on what’s popular; or what they’re told is cool . These same people liked Gotye and The Script a few years ago. Today they like Pharrell & Ed Sheeran – and in 2 years they’ll like someone else and never give Ed Sheeran a second thought again.
Subject to License..
Sweet mother of Jaysus the David Gray of the 00s headlines croker ,this is worse than GB .
Lordy! Just because half the folk here are not a fan of Ed Sheeran, there are thousands who are! For his concert in The 3 Arena (The Point or whatever it was, is, called) last year was sold out immediately so HE does have a fan base and HE will sell out Croke Park whether you like him or not! When Garth Brooks was announced I nearly choked on my porridge for instance as he certainly isn’t a Headline act I would go & see in Croker! Each to it’s own!
OMG ……. actually nah I don’t care
I do respect Ed Sheeran, nobody works harder in the music world, however he does seem to be omnipresent this last while and somehow I don’t see how his midsize Taylor and his loop pedal are going to bring down the house the way a rock band could.
It’s a different audience though. The people there won’t be expecting a rock show.
This story was posted at 8:50 am stating the concert was announced on the Tubridy show.. But that doesn’t start till 9..!!!
It starts at 8:45 now…
Sorry Justin but Ryan starts at 8.45. Unfortunately!!!
Ed Sheeran. He is going to fill Croke Park. He seems a nice lad. I will not be there, I have a funeral that day.
Let’s go middle-of-the-road mediocrity!
Underwhelmed also.cant imagine going mental in croke park to Ed Sheeran.
Who?
If he can fill croker, I’m taken up the guitar
Says a lot about how bad a place music is in when Ed Sheeran and The Script are headlining croker
Tickets??
You’ll definitely need tickets alright.
No thanks, I’m washing my hair that night.
I’ve to go stand on a plug
OMG OMG OMG
Who the hell is Ed Sheeran?
King of cheesy pop
Damn I thought It would be Garth brooks!! Haha
Hilarious stuff there again louise
Says it all about the state of music that a guy who looks like a student who just rolled out of bed is considered a rockstar. Zero charisma for a stadium gig. Blandness prevails.
Most rockstars look like they’ve just rolled out of bed and a lot of them also look like students. I’d say Ed Sheeran would take that insult as a compliment.
He’s alright same to go with the script there just alright too not what I would choose to put in a 80 thousand seater but like the script he will probably sell out people will have a nice day I suppose . Not my type of music but there is a lot of people do like him. So good luck to him
ed sheeran and the script are playing croke park……..just go s to show you the teenybobers will put bums on seats….. and bums on seats = cash…..the big concerts listed for this comming year in dublin have alot to be desired …!!!!
Ed is a small venue man ( point Whelans etc etc) not croker . He will sell it out but cant see him bringing the house down. .
Wow I’m gonna have a lot less respect for everybody’s opinions on here now that I found out your’re all Ed Sheeran fans apparently!
I think the Irish warmed to him when he was so generous to that little girl on the Xmas late late show! He seems like a good guy I like him.
1 show or 5
Is he not already doing 4 nights in the 3 Arena in October? Who would want to see him twice within the space of a few months?!?!
I love Ed Sheeran’s music generally but his gig at the O2 left me a little…blah. Didn’t get the buzz of the night and it all seemed a bit rushed!
Nevermind the fact that there were huge groups of young’uns rat arsed drunk and causing trouble and getting thrown out!
Or the 3 Arena rather, can’t keep up!
Local residents got a list of events in a newsletter from the GAA this week(ours yesterday), along with a list of the projects that benefited from the Croke Park charity fund and a reminder to sign up for the ticket lottery. This concert wasn’t on it. I remember my first thought was “This reads like buttering up for something”. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if there’s an attempt to add more concert nights this year.
Next we will hear Daragh Brophy suspended for announcing it too early……
Real edgy move by Tubridy, there.
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