It's great to know that the reliability with the DDs has been sorted, I know it was mentioned on several occasions that they were giving a lot of trouble when they came down originally.

They're a lovely bus and they still have plenty to offer Cork despite their age, although the B9TL is much better.

In that case I don't understand why there has been a drop in standards, there's no VC300s on road passenger duties to worry about either.