Despite a precedence having been set over the past few years, no extraordinary measures seem to have been taken to ensure that students toed the curb at bus stops in UCD on Monday 17th – the first day of term. What was described as anti-social behaviour inevitably broke out and bus services were cancelled after both buses and drivers were abused.

For a long time, unpleasant and rowdy behaviour has been commonplace on late-night UCD bus routes, in particular on the first and last days of term when the night-time services are at their busiest. The curtailing of services in Belfield on Black Monday was something that should therefore have been expected if previous years were anything to go by...