Taxi drivers say the Government is not encouraging them to make their services more accessible to wheelchair users.

LOCAL authorities are to lose another source of revenue with the appointment of a national taxi regulator next year.

CHILDREN under four years of age can be carried without seat belts in the rear of taxis — and yet the drivers will not be prosecuted or incur penalty points.

TAXI drivers in Dublin are threatening a series of one-day stoppages unless the Government introduces an immediate moratorium on the issuing of licences.

TAXI drivers in Dublin are threatening a series of one-day stoppages unless the Government introduces an immediate moratorium on the issuing of licences.

THOUSANDS of late-night revellers and visitors to Waterford city face the prospect of being left stranded as a row between taxi drivers and gardaí intensifies.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary came under fire today after it emerged he had registered his Mercedes as a taxi in a bid to dodge city traffic jams.

A TAXI driver was arrested yesterday afternoon after three women claimed they were raped and then held for four hours in the man’s South Dublin flat.

THE compensation fund for taxi operators hit by deregulation was branded a ‘disgrace’ yesterday by the National Union of Taxi Drivers.

Over 100 taxi drivers are protesting outside Fianna Fail’s election headquarters in Dublin.