'It's like we are invisible': Deliveroo drivers fear continuing to work but have little choice

Gig economy’s delivery riders dice with city traffic to earn as little as €3, writes Ryan O'Rourke
'It's like we are invisible': Deliveroo drivers fear continuing to work but have little choice

Theresa Dontas, fiancé of deliveroo driver Thiago Osorio Corte, prays at the site where he was mown down in a hit and run incident on Monday night. Picture: Damien Storan

It’s 11am and Felipe Santos Da Silva is getting ready for a 12-hour shift.

It will be the first he has worked since his friend and fellow delivery rider, Thiago Cortes, was killed in a hit and run earlier this week.

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