Thousands of rail customers were experiencing further travel disruption today as a result of unofficial industrial action by rail drivers.
A number of services on the Dublin to Cork and Kerry routes have been cancelled, while others have bus transfers between Mallow and Cork.
There are no services operating between Cork and Cobh, Mallow and Tralee.
However, Galway and Westport line services are operating normally. An estimated 20,000 passengers were affected yesterday when 30 services between Dublin, Cork, Galway, Westport and Athlone were cancelled.
Iarnród Éireann said the disruption followed refusal by drivers to work their normal rosters. The original dispute arose after a Cork-based driver refused to facilitate training for new train drivers, despite being instructed to cooperate with the training programme by the Labour Relations Commission and by their unions Siptu and the National Bus and Rail Union, during negotiations last March, as a basis for negotiations on wider issues.
However, Iarnród Éireann yesterday rejected proposals for a return to work from drivers in Cork. According to union representatives, drivers had proposed resuming their normal rostered duties in exchange for a meeting with the company, without preconditions, to discuss the issues at the centre of the dispute.
The latest dispute drew criticism from the political parties yesterday. Labour Party Spokesperson on Transport Tommy Broughan described the disruption as "deplorable".
"This dispute has been simmering on a local basis for some times and I find it very strange that no action was taken by any of the industrial relations agency to try and sort it out before it escalated," he said.
Meanwhile, Fine Gael's Transport Spokesman, Fergus O'Dowd, said that essential services, including transport, must sign up to a "no strike clause" to prevent travel chaos.
Full details of the affected services are available on the company's website.