Fun cruise for 1,400 children in capital

DECKED out in flags, balloons and posters hundreds of Dublin taxi drivers switched off their meters yesterday as they treated more than a thousand children to a day out at the Ambrosia Dublin Taxi Drivers Special Children’s Outing.

Around 1,400 children with special needs danced and cheered to swinging tunes from the Garda band at a street party before a convoy of cabs paraded through the city centre for a day of fun.

Taxi man and organiser Tom Colgan, who has been involved in the day out for 26 years, was flanked by a dozen garda as the parade headed through the capital’s streets.