Taxi men vow to drive on after ordeal

TWO taxi drivers who were held hostage last weekend have said they are determined to go back to work following their ordeal.

Michael White was captured, stripped and almost drowned by three balaclava-clad youths in Castlepollard, Co Westmeath, while fellow taxi driver Martin Fagan was also attacked by the same gang. At 11pm on Saturday night, Mr White was parked at a taxi rank in Castlepollard, a small town just inside the north Westmeath border.

In an interview on the Marian Finucane show, he said: “I got a call to pick up a fare to go to Oldcastle. I drove up to the tennis court and I was jumped by three young lads wearing balaclavas and one of them had a handgun.”