Roy August 9th, 2010
I can’t draw to save my life, that’s why the picture below looks like it was done by a 4 year old, but the mere fact that I did it , was bored enough to do it and had the time to do it, proves we don’t have enough work!
Roy May 30th, 2010
Here is a small selection of the Photos taken by “Silver Bullet” in and around Dublin, if you want to see more take a look at this Irish Taxi drivers forum thread:
http://irishtaxi.org/forum/index.php?topic=4399.0
Roy January 27th, 2010
These fascinating pictures taken in Dublin in 1961 where sent to me by a reader of the Blog, (Thanks Louise)
I hope the gallery program works and that you guys like them: (may take a little while to load)
Roy March 30th, 2009
I stayed around after my shift to see how the strike was going and was pleasantly surprised to see a good number of cars had shown up and that the mood was light hearted.
I could once again see spirits lifted as the lads felt something was being done and have have changed my mind and decide to do my usual shift, between 8pm and 4am on the picket at St Stephens Green
Here’s some Pictures taken this morning between 4am and 5am
National Hackley and Taxi Association Poster on O’Connell Street (good to see the Unions finally get involved)
The lads on the Geen were in good form
The lads on the Dawson Street Rank were having a sit down protest!
Irish Taxi Federation Poster on Rathmines rank:
And discovered an old Mate Protesting there ( John the taller one)
Roy March 13th, 2009
A little quiz for the weekend, probably too easy, where are these loocated ?
Open all hours,
Sea horses
Colliins
Turrets
Lighthouse
Roy March 5th, 2009
I drove in with the Southside crew and met Del and Brendan while we waited to leave, (two commenters on this site) it’s great to be able to put faces and voices to the names.
This picure was taken on Leeson St. I guess we were having the desired effect?
Leeson Street
As we had the shortest drive we arrived before the rabble and welcomed first, our brothers from the west;
In from the West
Then came the noisy savages from the Northside, blaring their horns and shouting, seriously you cannot bring these people anywhere!
The Northsiders arriving
Looks like Stephen Spielberg has come down in the world;
John F
And finally the crowd begins to gather for the rally;
Rally Begins
No professional speakers this time around but the boys did well, I particularly enjoyed the speech from the Cork representative, he spoke very well, and Martin from the committee did a good job replacing Dave for the passionate outpourings, get well soon Dave by the way…….the comment about him being out of work for 3 months without any prospect of sick pay etc made me think I should probably try and save a little for that rainy day!
Off topic a little…… I noted that Taxi drivers for change paid €150 for the website!
They were robbed….I’m sorry but that site is a disaster area, difficult to navigate and not at all pleasing on the eye.
So if anyone else has €150 going a begging, I will do up a website like this (to your design/specifications) , OK, so it’s not by any means perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot easier to look at than the one above, I’ll include (your name).com/.org or .net (if available), along with 750gb of webspace. (renewable yearly).
HEY! Us taxi drivers need the extra income and God loves a trier!
Roy February 17th, 2009
Another great turnout for today’s protest:
This guy who called himself “Bob the builder” was determined to be both seen and heard!
One of the comments from the speakers that struck home for me was, “A taxidriver got home from work last week and the dog bit him”, at the same time I heard a girl say she was going to claim deserted wives allowance, then I spotted this girl, how apt:
And just to prove we’re not just a bunch of ugly blokes;
The most poignant moment of all was when protest organiser JimWaldron broke down telling the tale of a fellow driver who died last week of cancer, working up until the final week “because he couldn’t afford not to”
Invited speakers Mary Lou Mc Donald and Joe Higgins did well also.
Finally and incredibly I made the finalist list for the Irish bloggers awards (best specialist blog) YAY me!
Roy February 9th, 2009
Came across this incident on Saturday night, which was one of the busiest of the year so far (Rugby weekend) but not for this guy or the other Taxi that was involved in the accident, (sorry no photo) thankfully nobody seemed to be badly hurt, but it could be the end of the line for these two taxi drivers….. it’s hard to come back from this type of thing, increased insurance, replacement cab etc.
Taxi Crash, Leeson Street
Hope to see lots of my fellow Taxi drivers at our latest gathering tomorrow, We’re meeting at 11am, Parnell Square.
Roy January 23rd, 2009
I’ve just finished Ken Follet’s book, “Pillars of the earth”, in it lords and nobility regularly tucked into roast Swan, on special occasions.
Then I passed these guys:
Swans on the Grand Canal, Portobello
I reckon you could sneak up on one and bop it on the head easy enough, I wonder what they taste like?
I’m off to Spain for a few days on a “lads weekend” ……perhaps we’ll catch one and stick it on the barbie?
