Stop digging a hole boys

Irish Examiner


One of the country’s best known taxi drivers has denied his
association is racist and is refusing membership to foreign nationals
because of their skin colour. Derry Coughlan, the long serving chairman
of the Cork Taximan’s Association, sparked a race row after comments he
made during the 24-hour strike on Monday saying that his association’s
constitution does not allow “non-national members at the moment”. But
Mr Coughlan said yesterday that his comments were taken out of context.
He said his association had members from Tunisia, Chile, Poland,
albania, Bangladesh, England and Scotland. But he admitted that none of
his members is black.
“They are too new to our shores and too amateur to get the act right” he said.