A Burned CIE Bus

7th October 1968; A CIE bus was burned in Portmagee on Sunday night, 6th October. The bus was used to take children to school in Caherciveen. Parents refused to let their children travel on the bus in protest at the takeover by CIE of the route that had been serviced for nine years by Vincent O'Keefe, a 34 year old shopkeeper from Portmagee. The IRA burned the bus because they felt that Mr. O'Keefe had been victimised.