{"id":201559,"date":"2025-11-26T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201559\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:32:13","slug":"mcguirk-now-paul-murphy-wants-to-run-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201559\/","title":{"rendered":"MCGUIRK: Now Paul Murphy wants to run Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As is often the case, one of the greatest public transport innovations of our era has come not from the policymaking genius of government, but from young entrepreneurs out to make a buck.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2009, at the ripe old age of 31, Canadian businessman Garrett Camp came up with the idea of the Uber App: Connecting would-be passengers with private citizens who wanted to earn a few quid by driving people here and there on the side. The pricing for this service was based on the old-fashioned but eternal idea of supply and demand, meaning that transport would be more expensive at peak times and less expensive the more drivers were in the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As is often the case, one of the greatest public transport innovations of our era has come not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8221,9,10,79,179,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,188,5,27172,13421,63216,7,8,29639,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-201559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-transport","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-paul-murphy","23":"tag-public-transport","24":"tag-taxis","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-uber","28":"tag-world","29":"tag-world-news","30":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115617198848728423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}