As part of an update to the company's terms and conditions, customers have been told that they will be charged if they cancel two minutes or more after a driver accepts a job.

The taxi-hailing app MyTaxi is to change its name, for the second time in two years.

Ireland had the most popular destination for mytaxi passengers across the whole of Europe last year.

MyTaxi drivers will be allowed to charge a €2 booking fee from tomorrow.

Daimler’s mytaxi said it will merge with British rival Hailo in an all-share deal, creating Europe’s largest smartphone-based taxi-hailing business.