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Over-supply, poor regulation, and rogue operators in the taxi industry look set to be eliminated with the Government’s new report on the industry.

A Newcastle man who assaulted a passenger in a taxi they were sharing, in an unprovoked attack, handed over the last of the compensation owed and received the benefit of the Probation Act.

Dear Editor,

The road safety officer in Mayo County Council is appealing to taxi and hackney drivers throughout Mayo, to email their contact details (name, phone number and the town/county area they cover) to the road safety office [email protected].

Taxi spaces which were not being used at the upper end of University Road/Newcastle Road junction are being turned into a loading bay for the local Tesco store.

Not since Robert de Niro looked at us and asked ‘are you looking at me’ has the stock of the impoverished taxidriver plummeted as low as it has this week following the Prime Time Investigates programme on the industry. While nobody is surprised that there are rotten elements to all out of our professions, it is the scale of this decomposition that is the most alarming fallout from Paul Maguire’s fantastically researched and edited programme.

The licensee of a premises in Killala was convicted and fined €300 at Ballina District Court this week after five people were in his pub at 1.45am.

Four out of five taxi drivers work more than 50 hours per week (83.4 per cent) with over half working more than 60 hours a week. However, some drivers have admitted to working up to 80 hours a week, leading to a belief that passengers are unsafe in their cars.

A conceptual twist on a British institution has been unveiled in the form of the Volkswagen Taxi Concept – the latest evolution in a series of ‘World Taxis’ based on the underpinnings of the forthcoming UP! city car. It was unveiled in Central London last month.

At Wednesday’s sitting of Castlebar District Court two men were before the court on assault charges arising out of an incident which took place on December 14 2009. Andrew Morris, 35 Castlegrove East, Castlebar, and Morris Agboerha, 52 Chestnut Grove, Castlebar, claim that each was assaulted by the other on the night in question.