GALWAY TAXI drivers are to seek support from colleagues around the country in a protest against deregulation.
Some 400 drivers and their families marched through Galway on Saturday, saying the market has been flooded with new taxis since deregulation.
Enda O’Rourke, of the Galway Taxi Association, said drivers are struggling to make a living and want a ban on new licenses. “We have a dysfunctional Cabinet running the country and taxi drivers seem to be a long way down the queue in having their plight dealt with.”
Galway drivers were joined by colleagues from other parts of the west in the march. There are 1,100 taxis in Galway city and over 400 new licences were issued for Galway city and county in 2008.
Local politicians from all major parties addressed the rally.