Control licences or ‘face taxi strike’

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 commuters had to find alternative transport yesterday as most of the city’s 9,800 taxi drivers observed a 24-hour strike, which ended at 4am this morning.

Taxi leaders warned that another planned stoppage on July 8 would go ahead unless there was substantial progress on the issue of controlling the number of people entering the business.