Chef caught operating illegal taxi service was charging customers €35 for Mullingar to Dublin Airport fare

by Meath77

27 comments

  1. So, he was driving to Dublin for work and gave people a lift to the airport. And a “sting operation” was organised to catch him?

  2. Some great people he gave lift to i would say. Whoever reported him will now have the opportunity to pay that taxi service 5x more or enjoy the privilege of depending on public transport…. Wasting resources organising sting operation for this…

  3. That’s cheaper than a taxi from Donaghmede to airport. Have you got his number?

  4. Hes should have just called it carpooling and “splitting the petrol.”

  5. €35 ? I pay this much to the airport and I live 13 km away. We need more ppl like him.

  6. > Father of one… told inspectors that while he was fully aware the service he had been providing was an offence, it had been done purely as a means towards covering his petrol costs to Dublin where he worked as a chef.

    Absolute career crimal there! I feel much safer now that he’s been caught. Such a good use of time and money. 

  7. I used to give a colleague a lift to work and he would give me a few quid. Was I operating an illegal taxi service?

  8. The only thing criminal was his undercharging! 

  9. If he was a actually just bringing people on his way to work I don’t see the issue.

    It’s essentially carpooling and ‘Petrol Money’.

    Whoever reported him is a right dickhead, and whoever took the report, followed up on it and brought him to court is also a knob.

    I reckon we have bigger fish to fry

  10. Finally I can sleep soundly knowing this menace has been brought to justice

  11. And people think we shouldn’t bring back capital punishment! Won’t someone think of the children!

  12. At least the judge went somewhat easy on him and there was no moralising like there sometimes is over small cases like these. Doesn’t deserve to have his name smeered in the national papers though.

  14. This is what the community is about but we can’t have nice things.

  15. Send CAB to impound his ill gotten riches… I heard his daughter had a designer doddy from Lidl.

  16. “Illegal taxi service”.. those are some pretty harsh words for someone who was trying to recoup some of his fuel costs during commutes by doing ride sharing.

    Is NTA making car pooling illegal now?

  17. Jesus Christ. What a ridiculous waste of resources.

  18. I wonder how much this cost the tax payers to bring down this criminal enterprise. Be interesting to see how many man hours and the money went into this case.

  20. I ran a pub in Meath a few years back. In the arsehole of nowhere.

    Customers couldn’t get taxis to come for them.

    “Not worth my while” was what we heard off every local driver who insisted on their cards being available to call.

    So, a local punter began bringing people home for a few quid.
    Then the same drivers who didn’t want to work made complaints to the Guards about illegal taxi-ing going on.

    It caused hassle for months. The taxis raised cases in court and nearly had the local man disqualified from driving as well as fines out the ear etc.

    And when he stopped dropping people home and customers began calling the licensed taxis, they then said, “ah is yer dodgy driver not doing it anymore? Best start walking so”.

    Fuck taxi drivers.

  21. Typical of modern Guards. Go after the people who have something to lose. He has a job paying tax and was making a little bit of pocket money on the side.

    Meanwhile dealing drugs in broad daylight on the streets of Dublin is overlooked and scrotes tearing up the streets on stolen motorbikes is almost celebrated.

    With the way the society in the west is crumbling, it’s more and more becoming a way of life that we aren’t willing to defend.

  22. In Spain, there is such a thing as a BlaBlaCar. It is essentially carpooling for petrol money. Why such a thing is not allowed in Ireland is beyond me, especially considering carbon emissions targets and whatnot. Irish politicians truly are a shower of bullshitters.

  23. What a waste of time and resources for a man just trying to “grind” a living. Joke

  24. Hold on €35, from Mullingar to the airport?

    Is that not like,, a really really really ridiculously good bargain?

  25. So apps like blablacar are actually illegal? Not sure if they operate here tbh but I think getthere used to let you organise carpooling and obviously give petrol money to the driver. This is such a waste of garda time imo far greater issues out there than this

  26. Glad we have dealt with this criminal instead of those out there robbing houses and assaulting people. Carpool criminals like this are the real threat to our nation /s

  27. Glad to see this scum getting caught. 35 is far to low when you could shaft people for 75 euro legally /s

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