Sir, - I boarded a city-bound no. 16 bus at Harold's Cross on Sunday night (August 15th) at 10.10 p.m. The driver was male. I sat on the seat nearest the driver's cabin and I listened to a conversation between him and his control room on his two-way radio.
He was requesting the control room operator to contact the driver of another no. 16 bus coming from the city, which he anticipated to be in the vicinity of Harold's Cross at the time, to ask him to keep a look out for a 15-year-old female Spanish student, who had got off his bus in Harold's Cross, and who appeared a little disorientated at the time. He also informed the other driver not to worry about the fare; she had paid him.
My heart was enriched on witnessing such care, consideration and concern by the two busdrivers and their control operator for this Spanish student. I thought of my own two daughters meeting men like these in a similar situation in a foreign city.
What a different world we would live in if we treated everyone and everything as if it was our own. In fairness to Dublin Bus, the chivalry of all concerned in this situation should be made known to the public. - Yours, etc.,
Thomas J. Kinsella, Old Bride Street, Dublin 8.