Taxi driver vows he'll go to jail
A DROGHEDA taxi driver is prepared to go to Mountjoy as a protest over what he claims is the lack of taxi rank spaces in the town.
'I have two tickets coming before the court and I'm prepared to go to jail before paying them,' Mick Brennan told the Drogheda Independent on Tuesday.
He was forced to pay a €240 fine on Tuesday after a garda called to his house to arrest him.
'I was told the fine was months old and was not paid but I moved house ages ago and never got it in the first place. Only I was seeing my kids on Tuesday I'd have refused payment and gone to jail this time,' he added.
He was fined for parking on double yellow lines at the bottom of Stockwell St as he waited to get onto the rank at the back of the town centre.
'I paid € 7,000 for my license and there's 36 rank spots for 350 cabs in this town. How are you supposed to make a living. One day last week I made €48 and spent €20 of that on petrol. The council need to look at this whole thing. Something is seriously wrong.
' The taxi drivers in this town are suffering like everyone else.'
- Hubert MURPHY
