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https://thomaspringle.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pringle-Says-Coach-Tourism-Scheme-Ignores-Rural-Realities_.jpg22881280I have taken quite a volume of calls to my office over the past week or so, from rural bus operators in County Donegal. They are querying what they see as the overly stringent nature of the qualifying criteria of the Coach Tourism Business Continuity Scheme operated by Fáilte Ireland. Specifically, they feel aggrieved where, […]