This taxi site is being wound down, the service providers is seeking everyone to go premium therefore making it no longer free to operate. You can continue to use the other site at http://taxieire.forumotion.net.

However as most taxi drivers seem to have little concern for there industry, too much traffic is not expected. As for myself I am still on the fringes of the industry, o...

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Before Taxi Deregulation when there was money to be made, the taxi industry was seen as a nice little investment for some members of the Garda. Some bought licences or rented them and had guys on welfare driving them. In some situation the PSV officer, or to the lay man the police officer in change of standards in the local taxi indu...

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Taxi Drivers For Change "Change for the better"










Taxi Drivers For Change



"Change for the better"



Newsletter No 2


Welcome to the second edition of our newsletter, the marathon continues. A lot of work ...

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Hi All,
As you know, we recently published our second newsletter of which I hope you have a copy of, and we included a ballot on this as to what our next steps should be. I am just emailing you to remind you of this ballot which ends Sun 12th July at 6pm just text the word TAXI and either A for a mandate from you our supporter to talk with Taxi regulator/Advisory council or B to escalate d...

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A teenager who banged on the door of a taxi and then assaulted the driver during an argument with his girlfriend was ordered to pay compensation at Galway District Court this week.last Monday to assault and criminal damage at Eyre Square on October 11, 2008.Inspector Sean Glynn told the court that at 11pm the injured party, a taxi driver, had parked his vehicle at Eyre Square while a woman got in....

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A Dublin man who operated a taxi service without a licence was fined €1,000 and ordered to pay €400 costs when he pleaded guilty to the offence at Cavan District Court. Derek Lahiff, 3 Daletree Road, Firhouse, Dublin 24, was summoned that on September 2, 2008, at the Hotel Kilmore, Killygarry, he drove or used a small public service vehicle for carriage of persons for reward without a licence....

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PRISON SENTENCE FOR FURBO MAN FOR NOT PAYING TAXI FARES
A Furbo man was jailed for thirteen months last year at Galway District
Court for persistently refusing to pay taxi fares and for assaulting a taxi driver.
38 year old Brian Curran, of Cnoc na Greine, Furbo, pleaded guilty to not paying
taxi fares on eleven separate occasions last year. He also pleaded guilty to as...

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