'We might just jump': Tourists stranded on bus with no toilets during Limerick protest

A BUS LOAD of tourists have been stuck for hours in the midst of the haulier fuel price protest. 

Between 35-40 tourists have no toilet access on a coach bound for the Cliffs of Moher at the M20 Exit, Limerick. 

Some of the tourists on the bus have been forced to go to the toilet on the side of the motorway, in the grass.  

Fritz Oltmann, who is in Ireland for a week with his family, said what should have been a three and a half hour journey has taken them almost seven hours - and counting.

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“We were supposed to eat lunch at one o’clock, after returning from the Cliffs of Moher”, he said. Unfortunately for the tourists, the bus has not yet reached Galway. 

“I haven’t seen one policeman, you know, that would be who would handle something like this in the US.”

The man detailed that a couple on the bus walked on the motorway to get an Uber back to Dublin against the bus driver’s wishes. The journey cost the pair just over 300 Dollars. “It’s just unbelievable,” he said. 

“We should have done it too, really”.

Mr Oltmann told the Limerick Leader that the group on the bus are hungry, tired and thirsty. 

The man’s wife said: “It’s very difficult for us to be on the bus for so many hours.”

“We’re hungry, we need to use the bathroom.”

“We don’t know when we are going to get back”, she said. The woman was anxious for information on when the haulier protest will end.

In an email contacting the Leader, Mr Oltmann wrote: “When/ If we finally get to the Cliffs of Moher we might just jump”.