The Connecting Ireland (CI) Rural Mobility Plan is the National Transport Authority’s (NTA) plan to improve rural and interurban public transport services across the country over five years 2022 – 2026 inclusive.
Connecting Ireland Quarterly Bulletins 2025
- The Connecting Ireland Quarterly Bulletin for Q1 2025, is Issue 10.
- Over 150 new/ enhanced bus services introduced to rural Ireland through the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan.
- Patronage figures in 2024 continued to show year on-year growth with 28% patronage growth on enhanced Connecting Ireland services in comparison to 2023 figures. 2024 saw the highest passenger journey figures of the Plan so far with over 1.1 million passenger journeys taking place on the 45 new or enhanced services introduced in
2024. 989,464 of these passenger journeys took place on the 28 enhanced services from the date they were enhanced, and 178,781 passenger journeys came from the 17 new routes.
