The public transport in Munster has multiple parts: the trains and the busses in cities and also locally. All of it is part of TFI (transport for Ireland). there is a rail network that connects all of Ireland. The bigger cities also have their own busses for example Limerick .

The Limerick greater/metro area has a population of 162,000 and is covered mainly by bus and suburban rail networks.

There are a total of 9 City-bus routes, serving areas such as Raheen , Dooradoyl, Ballivumin, University of limerick, O'malley park, Monaleen, Caherdarvin and catletroy.

Commuter rail services are also important and there are three train lines in the Limerick suburban rail network.

-Limerick railway station – Ennis (25,000)

-Limerick railway station – Nenagh (9,000)

-Limerick railway station – Tipperary (5,000)

In rural areas there are the so-called ¨ local link ¨ and ¨bus Eireann¨ busses, that connect smaller towns. In most of the busses you are able to pay with the leap card. That is a card that you can load up with money so you only have to tap it against a terminal in the bus in order to pay. While all of that sounds good in theory, people are complaining about busses being late. the national transport authority put out a report on the punctuality of bus Eireann in which they showed the percentages of busses on time. Over the time of 2020 to 2021 only 60% of busses in Cork city were on time. In Limerick it was 65% and in Galway it was 75%. Those are obviously not too good numbers if you think that all busses that are 1 minute early or 5 minutes late are considered on time. Even if there are busses going to nearly all of the bigger towns in the area, the fact that at times 40% of all busses are at least 5 minutes late overshadows it all. But hopefully that will all change: like as an example in Cork where there are already improvements planned, the official Cork city website says:

"As part of the National Development Plan a fund of €200 million is available to Cork to invest in public transport to:

-Improve bus frequency

-Improve capacity

-Improve journey time

-Move towards the introduction of a rapid transit system"

Hopefully all the issues with the public transport will be fixed in the future not just in cork but in the whole region.