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Taxi driver Seamus Canning, Garryduff Court, Castlebar, was convicted and fined €100 at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday for overcharging after the Commission for Taxi Regulation issued proceedings for three breaches against the taxi regulation act, with Judge Mary Devins saying that while the prosecution was legitimately brought, a “very, very, very large sledgehammer” was used to crack a “very, very, very small peanut”.

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A Donegal man, who assaulted a taxi driver by punching him in the side of his face on the night the accused proposed to his girlfriend, was ordered to hand over up to €1,800 in fines and compensation.

A taxi driver, who obstructed a garda by failing to hand over his driving licence and recorded the incident on his mobile phone was fined €500 and disqualified from driving for 12 months.

A taxi driver charged with 28 counts of sexually assaulting two children is to face trial later this year.

A man who refused to pay a taxi fare and then held a shotgun to the neck of the taxi driver and threatened to kill him, after the driver went to his house to look for the fare, was before Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

A good samaritan taxi driver, who came to aid of a colleague, was left with a dislocated shoulder and knee injuries after he was violently thrown to the ground in a “thuggish” and racist attack, the Galway District Court heard yesterday.

A man who was stopped by gardai whilst driving a busload of Bower girls without either insurance or licence, left court this week without a conviction against his name after he and his employer made a €1,250 contribution to the Childrens’ Hospital in Crumlin.

A taxi driver was so intent on squirming his way into a rank space that he blocked up traffic, completely ignored a garda rapping on his window, and then dangerously edged his car in “on top” of the garda who had to take evasive action to avoid being hit.

Judge John Neilan has declined to convict a man of driving a taxi without a PSV licence.