Cork taxi crisis: 'I got a stiletto in the eye but have to keep driving'

John Constant says his family have been pleading with him for years to quit the industry following a string of attacks
Cork taxi crisis: 'I got a stiletto in the eye but have to keep driving'

Taxi driver John Constant was assaulted in 2015 after dropping a fare in Glounthaune, Co Cork. File picture: Eddie O'Hare

A CORK cabbie who has been assaulted by passengers many times — including a stiletto to the eye and a broken bottle held to his neck — says the rise in vicious attacks is to blame for a shortage of drivers at night.

John Constant says his family have been pleading with him for years to quit the industry following a string of attacks. He says, however, that it is not financially viable to abandon night shifts.

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