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Not something you hear every day, in fairness.

The Evening Live Drive team at Dublin City FM received the following today:

“Hi Guys, this is a little odd but yesterday (Monday 07/07/14) I was in Dublin and got a taxi from outside Connolly Station to St James Gate at around 10.40am. The taxi was a red car (possibly a Toyota).
Anyhow the taxi driver was BEAUTIFUL and I clocked his name on his ID badge as something like Daire, Darin or Dealglan and his surname began with B – In my nerves for my meeting etc i have forgotten his name and stupidly didn’t get a taxi receipt.
We swapped stories and I want to find him and see if he would like to go for pint, i don’t even know if he is single so this could be awkward but…..!
I know he has crazy friends and had lost his phone and car keys this weekend and had the “fear of life” a bit like myself!
I would really appreciate if you guys could help me trace him by reading this out on air. I’d also appreciate if you described me rather than give out my name- I was wearing a black suit with a green blouse, dark hair and was telling him about my “sore leg” thanks.”

Anyone?

Do You Believe In True Love (LiveDrive)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Members of the full-time taxi drivers’ association of Ireland [Tiomanai Tacsai Na HEireann (TTnH)] in Dublin city today.

The group wants to speak to the “relevant bodies” to reduce the numbers of taxi drivers by “buying back back taxi licences and supplying drivers, who do leave, with more training schemes so they can find work elsewhere”.

Black people (out of picture).

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Germy Coll writes:

A clique of taxi drivers is behind this wildcat industrial action. 

Five hundred or so taxis have a permit for the airport, which out of 12,000 taxis operating in Dublin, is a very small minority.

The majority of permit holders in the airport are drivers who are old school. These are drivers whom deregulation did not adversely affect (no mortgage, kids left the nest, bungalow in Wexford paid for, etc.).

These guys drive the E and S class Mercs,the 5 series Beemers, Cadilac Chrysler C300s. These are the blokes who start all the ‘revolutions’ in the ‘Kesh’. [he name placed of the taxi holding area at Dublin airport].

Taxis at Dublin airport are the exception to the rule….go to any other major international airport and you will see that taxi holding areas are anything up too 5 miles away from the terminal and are called by the airport authority when require.

In other words, the taxis work for the airport….not the airport authority working for the taxis, which seems to be the case at Dublin airport.The majority of drivers at the airport today would’ve much rather worked the rank today but the guaranteed intimidation by ‘semi-retired’ drivers would be just unbearable.

It really is a wonder the DAA left these people operate so close to the terminals for so long when you see the condition they leave the the place in.

If you have time go and look at the holding area….it’s at the back of the Radisson hotel. It’s well worth a look: 30% of taxi drivers are breaching both dress and vehicle codes at the airport. Enforcement must be increased.

Anyone?

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(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)