Bolt competes with FreeNow expanding its taxi-hailing service to Cork

Company says the number of taxis in Cork has fallen in the past two years

Bolt's ridesharing service is alreay in operation in Dublin.

Mobility app Bolt has expanded its taxi-hailing service to Cork competing with rival app FreeNow.

The company said it plans to build on the successful rollout of their service in Dublin last year. Bolt said it has already recruited a significant number of taxi drivers to its platform for Cork and said it will address the regular supply issue facing Irish users of taxis with the use of incentives at peak times.
The company used their launch in Cork to also call for more taxis in the fleet in Cork saying the number of registered drivers is falling at time when the public's appetite for socialising is growing.