Lo chef ha catturato il servizio di taxi illegale stava accusando i clienti € 35 per la tariffa dell’aeroporto di Mullingar a Dublino
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/westmeath/news/chef-caught-operating-illegal-taxi-service-was-charging-customers-35-for-mullingar-to-dublin-airport-fare/a1246234723.html
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Fair play
So, he was driving to Dublin for work and gave people a lift to the airport. And a “sting operation” was organised to catch him?
Some great people he gave lift to i would say. Whoever reported him will now have the opportunity to pay that taxi service 5x more or enjoy the privilege of depending on public transport…. Wasting resources organising sting operation for this…
That’s cheaper than a taxi from Donaghmede to airport. Have you got his number?
Hes should have just called it carpooling and “splitting the petrol.”
€35 ? I pay this much to the airport and I live 13 km away. We need more ppl like him.
Some price tbf to him – no wonder the taxi drivers were spooked
> Father of one… told inspectors that while he was fully aware the service he had been providing was an offence, it had been done purely as a means towards covering his petrol costs to Dublin where he worked as a chef.
Absolute career crimal there! I feel much safer now that he’s been caught. Such a good use of time and money.
I used to give a colleague a lift to work and he would give me a few quid. Was I operating an illegal taxi service?
The only thing criminal was his undercharging!
If he was a actually just bringing people on his way to work I don’t see the issue.
It’s essentially carpooling and ‘Petrol Money’.
Whoever reported him is a right dickhead, and whoever took the report, followed up on it and brought him to court is also a knob.
I reckon we have bigger fish to fry
This lad is a hero.
Taxi fares can go ef themselves.
Finally I can sleep soundly knowing this menace has been brought to justice
On the face of it this is absurd. I wonder how much of the high cost of living in this country is due to it being illegal to do things like this?
And people think we shouldn’t bring back capital punishment! Won’t someone think of the children!
At least the judge went somewhat easy on him and there was no moralising like there sometimes is over small cases like these. Doesn’t deserve to have his name smeered in the national papers though.
R9’s looking well.
Whilst paedophiles walk free.
This is what the community is about but we can’t have nice things.
Send CAB to impound his ill gotten riches… I heard his daughter had a designer doddy from Lidl.
“Illegal taxi service”.. those are some pretty harsh words for someone who was trying to recoup some of his fuel costs during commutes by doing ride sharing.
Is NTA making car pooling illegal now?
Jesus Christ. What a ridiculous waste of resources.
I wonder how much this cost the tax payers to bring down this criminal enterprise. Be interesting to see how many man hours and the money went into this case.
So… car pooling?
Good hustle
It must be the neighbour who reported him! Its always the neighbour.
I ran a pub in Meath a few years back. In the arsehole of nowhere.
Customers couldn’t get taxis to come for them.
“Not worth my while” was what we heard off every local driver who insisted on their cards being available to call.
So, a local punter began bringing people home for a few quid.
Then the same drivers who didn’t want to work made complaints to the Guards about illegal taxi-ing going on.
It caused hassle for months. The taxis raised cases in court and nearly had the local man disqualified from driving as well as fines out the ear etc.
And when he stopped dropping people home and customers began calling the licensed taxis, they then said, “ah is yer dodgy driver not doing it anymore? Best start walking so”.
Fuck taxi drivers.
Ireland and UK is so odd when it comes to justice. Criminals walk the streets and normal people suffer.
Illegally reducing carbon footprints, the monster!
Typical of modern Guards. Go after the people who have something to lose. He has a job paying tax and was making a little bit of pocket money on the side.
Meanwhile dealing drugs in broad daylight on the streets of Dublin is overlooked and scrotes tearing up the streets on stolen motorbikes is almost celebrated.
With the way the society in the west is crumbling, it’s more and more becoming a way of life that we aren’t willing to defend.
In Spain, there is such a thing as a BlaBlaCar. It is essentially carpooling for petrol money. Why such a thing is not allowed in Ireland is beyond me, especially considering carbon emissions targets and whatnot. Irish politicians truly are a shower of bullshitters.
What a waste of time and resources for a man just trying to “grind” a living. Joke
Can I ask a question? If they gave him a box of roses, they care the sweetest way to say thank you, would it be a crime??
Hold on €35, from Mullingar to the airport?
Is that not like,, a really really really ridiculously good bargain?
So apps like blablacar are actually illegal? Not sure if they operate here tbh but I think getthere used to let you organise carpooling and obviously give petrol money to the driver. This is such a waste of garda time imo far greater issues out there than this
Glad we have dealt with this criminal instead of those out there robbing houses and assaulting people. Carpool criminals like this are the real threat to our nation /s
Glad to see this scum getting caught. 35 is far to low when you could shaft people for 75 euro legally /s
This is fucken terrible. I feel for him.
Bargain price too!
I definitely think there is a legal question about personal freedoms in relation to the section of the taxi regulations act that applies here. If someone brought this to the EU I’d say they’d win because the law is too broad.
Tax > climate change
He’s doing this all wrong. Michael O’Leary worked out the optimal means of travel on this route years ago.
“The company owns a 2007–Mercedes-Benz S-Class taxi,with Mullingar hackney carriage licence MG99 purchased on a yearly basis from Westmeath County Council for upwards of €6,000.The vehicle has a taxi meter fitted and is allowed to use bus lanes within Dublin. The Mercedes taxi primarily operates between Ryanair’s headquarters at Dublin Airport, and Michael O’Leary’s home in Mullingar – a fare of around €86 each way. During the year prior to 2008, these charges amounted to €70,890 and had risen to €96,010 for the year 2009. At the end of 2011, the single-owner Mercedes S500L was put up for sale with an asking price of €20,000, under the description of “Ireland’s most famous taxi” and showing 275,000 kilometres on the odometer. The vehicle owned by Tillingdale had registration number 07D12245 and carried taxi plate number 14365. The current vehicle owned and operated by Tillingdale Unlimited has registration number 241D41728 and taxi plate number T14365.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillingdale
a taxi from dublin city centre to the airport is 60€ on a good day
Lucan to the airport is 50+ euro
He was providing a cheap alternative
He should of been left alone