[Gavan Reilly] Public transport will be free for all under-9s, under the terms of #budget25. Was previously available for all under-5s. @VirginMediaNews

21 comments

1. The Luas is free?

2. Terrible idea

3. More handouts for bastards who pay no tax

4. jokes on them: there’s no decent public transport where i live

5. Nice one, now all we need is public transport

6. Gangs of 9 years olds roaming the Luas? No thanks!

   

7. I’m being discriminated against on the grounds I don’t believe in Santa.

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9. Cue the parents or the kids arguing with the driver over age just to get a free trip

10. Can I have ‘any more ways to buy votes’ for 200 please

11. Government trying to buy the votes of low information voters smh 🙄

12. Fantastic!!!

    Oh wait, we don’t actually have any public transport so this is useless

13. Great news.

14. That’s nice. We’ve a load of spare capacity in public transport so might as well make it free for people

15. Fantastic move by the government

16. Could they not have just rounded it up to 10 year olds?

17. Tbh more of this

    Make it cheaper to just be in Ireland

    Next up should be massively subsidised child care

    These are all anti inflation moves which is what we need right now

18. Someone please make a list of all the freebies each party is promising

19. What Public transport?

20. I don’t think this is a good idea. I regularly see kids on the bus acting the maggot upstairs. If it only applies to early mornings going to and from school then it’s not a bad idea on paper.

21. Its already free in Rathkeale no matter of age.