Public transport: ‘Buses disappear in our towns in the evenings’

“The journey would involve a couple of stopovers and bus changes, and it just proved to me that public transport between rural towns for things that bit later in the day, just isn’t a viable option,” Siobhan said.

“For people in rural parts of Fermanagh and Tyrone, a car isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.”

There have been some improvements made to the Cookstown to Enniskillen bus service.

The morning and afternoon services now have journey times between two-and-a-half and three hours.

A Translink spokesperson said: “Translink recognise there is huge potential for growth in public transport and the new Belfast Grand Central Station provides the potential to enhance services across Northern Ireland with appropriate and sustained levels of funding helping to drive economic development and achieve NI climate goals.”