New increase

[The Liffey Lip]

I always thought Jack Me Off and Belker were one and the same person....very similar writing style...apologies to both, or either, if offended...none intended.

[mercenary for hire]

Are there two levels of Garda vetting?One for driving the drooling drunks around and another for drving drooling kids?

[Shallowhal]

Maybe they are LL....Jack being the self flagellation side...Belker being the straightner in a McDonalds carpark side...and Ken being the author..

[stonethecrows]

I got the OK from the Gards a few years back for my young fellows soccer team that he played for, so there is hope out there !

[mercenary for hire]

Are you saying there are two different clearance procedures?If you were a convicted kiddy fiddler surely that would exclude you from getting a PSV anyway?

[The Liffey Lip]

You just never know but that's my own fault for being such a conspiracy head. As i said, if I'm wrong then hands up and apologies. Maybe I'm seeing Hippos everywhere myself now?

The Garda vetting thing is a breeze if you haven't been involved in shady shit. The waiting time is chronic now though,,,,,,,and you have to do it again every 3 yrs or is it down to 1 now?

Sorry...edited again...even lads doing voluntary GAA stuff have to go through it so delays are ferocious...thank God for Zappone and Tusla, eh?

[Shallowhal]

Maybe I'm seeing Hippos everywhere myself now?


Are ye near a mirror?

[mercenary for hire]

I find it hard to believe there are two different standards.Some on here have suggested school bus/taxi drivers are somehow cleaner than the rest of us.Seems strange to me.

[The Liffey Lip]

Now, now, Hal...don't you start aswell...bad enough having the man who contacted me about this forum in the first place throwing a strop....you're above all that...no mirrors in my gaff, Hal......just icons of The Messiah, Mary and The Sigil of Baphomet.

[The Liffey Lip]

I find it hard to believe there are two different standards.Some on here have suggested school bus/taxi drivers are somehow cleaner than the rest of us.Seems strange to me.

Think the drivers of school buses are exempt from PSVs.........the company employing them has plenty of paperwork to fill in about them and many hoops to jump through before they can start working for them.

[Korky]

So they estimate the commission on credit cards to be half a percent,when they used to allow you charge 5% extra?(ten times as much).
Sum up charge 2.75%(except it's free through FreeNow till the end of the year)

Except that we’re not getting anything close to 0.5% extra to cover the cost of taking credit cards. We already had 95.5% of the fare, so a €10.00 fare will now increase to €10.45, it’s an extra 45 cent, 0.5% of that 45 cent to cover our credit card facility costs..so we get less than an extra quarter of 1 cent to cover  them.
I’m all for modernisation, and have offered credit card facilities myself for years, I just don’t like them pretending we’re being compensated when we are not.

[Jack Meoff]

Oh and I never mentioned that the taxi driver who had the 1400 Euro a week contract was also on disability and living in a corpo crib.

[stonethecrows]

Krispy Kreme sold 6.6 million doughnuts to Irish customers in the past year.

The shop in Blanchardstown - the company's most successful store internationally - is open one year today.

More than 600,000 customers have been into the outlet to eat their treats.

[mercenary for hire]

The increase is just a distraction IMO.I haven't heard anyone suggesting a strike or rejection of compulsory card payments.Everyone just accepted and forgot about it.Taxi drivers are shite at maths generally.

That's also forgetting card users rarely tip.And 100% of card payments will be eh..yis know the rest.Taxman etc etc etc..

[stonethecrows]

The increase is just a distraction IMO.I haven't heard anyone suggesting a strike or rejection of compulsory card payments.Everyone just accepted and forgot about it.Taxi drivers are shite at maths generally.

That's also forgetting card users rarely tip.And 100% of card payments will be eh..yis know the rest.Taxman etc etc etc..

You could always tell them your machine is broke