'It’s dangerous out there': Cork taxi drivers want tougher sentences for attackers

Latest assault on driver at the weekend comes after two men who beat other Cork taxi drivers received suspended sentences

In May, Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard how a drunken man who got into a row with a taxi driver about his route home in August 2021 assaulted the driver, and when the victim got out in fright, the passenger began to drive himself home. File picture

Taxi drivers in Cork have pleaded with judges to impose tougher sentences on people who attack them, as gardaí continue to investigate the latest vicious assault on a driver in the city.

A Spanish national in his 40s with Pakistani heritage suffered severe eye, nose and mouth injuries after he was dragged out of his car and beaten by a lone man on the Grand Parade at about 3.30am on Sunday.