working for my taxi in Dublin without the Dublin licence.

[The Liffey Lip]

Socialists and bleeding heart luvvies have changed the whole concept of racism........never heard the Paddy(pejorative term) or Royston(pejorative term) complaining about being discriminated against in London or Birmingham during the post WW2 rebuilding of England. What about the poor Tadhgs lining up to get a day's labour in the Glasgee Shipyards to feed their 19 way'uns?

[Rat Catcher]

True enough, we just got on with it and took the jobs they let us have. The West Indian's over on the mainland were pretty much the same, happy go lucky men working menial jobs. It's the following generations that start the problems as some get educated and others don't. I think we have learned a little from that, at least insofar as the black schools get all the funding these days. If anything, we are over-compensating and, in fact, discriminating against ourselves. I'm aware of white schools that have been using prefab type "temporary" accommodation for twenty years yet there seems to be no shortage of money to build the "educate apart" black schools.

[The Liffey Lip]

Real Racism, in my opinion, is what Victoria did to the Irish and what Herr Schicklgruber did to the Roma, Handicapped and Jews. The harsh reality of inverted racism is what is being foisted upon us by our "own".....the destabilisation and deconstruction of our former Republic.

[dalymount]

All them educate the foreigner schools were built for the darkies

[The Liffey Lip]

Thanks to the eminent Irishman, Sir Koudenhove-Kalergi Sutherland.

[dalymount]

100%  correct lippy.I dont like speaking ill of the dead,but this man,along with a lot of other multi state,and EU pension holders like Bertie,John Bruton etc  etc with their 4 ,or 5 pensions each are constantly telling us to welcome foreigners here,so they can come and take our fukking jobs,,and these political bastards face no threat to their livelihoods

[Rat Catcher]

All them educate the foreigner schools were built for the darkies

Bleedin' gas isn't it... without Educate Together all the kids would have to be educated together... only in Ireland, eh?

[dalymount]

Terrible is to small a word

[Rat Catcher]

Not for the Chinese kids.

[silverbullet]

Are Chink kids still told they're  Atheists by the Communist party?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I wonder were you equally as welcoming to them when they were pulling up to the top of the ranks taking the fares from the men trying to operate properly ,or when they started illegal ranks in full view of offical ranks ,and when challenged cried racist ? ,or when they came here and introduced a new kind of moral values into the industry by breaking every rule in the book ?

We've had unofficial ranks as long as I'm driving... long before entry liberalisation and even more longerer before we had significant numbers of immigrant drivers.

When I got me A badge chromed bu Kit the Chromer ,Leeson Strasse was a well established  unofficial  along with Zhivago`s, Barbarella`s Maxim`s , McGonagles , Parnell Square etc etc.  Depended on the Local Garda boss`s humour whether ya got shifted or not.

[dalymount]

Doesnt justify operating illegally,especially when drivers trying to operate their taxis legally are loosing out as a result not to mention the fact thats its also unprofessional

[Belker]

......i did see the walk past bit myself one night as i was talking to a local driver i know who was sitting about 6th on Peter St rank.....first five lads were of African heritage and pax walked up to said local driver and off he went.

if some a$$hole did that and picked me as an Irish driver even though im way back in the queue, i would tell them to get lost.

I wouldn't, I would take the fare fer Two reasons, Firstly because NTA law states that as a consumer a passenger may take any Taxi of their choice and Secondly as explained to me One night by a Polish driver; If a black customer walked past 5 white drivers and sat in to a black Taxi drivers cab, do you think the black driver would direct the passenger to the front of the rank ?

https://www.transportforireland.ie/wp_super_faq/do-i-have-to-take-the-first-taxi-on-a-queue-at-the-rank/
"Do I have to take the first taxi on a queue at the rank ? 13.6.12.
No. At a taxi rank the passenger may choose to travel in a taxi other than the one at the head of the queue."

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Doesnt justify operating illegally,especially when drivers trying to operate their taxis legally are loosing out as a result not to mention the fact thats its also unprofessional

Never said it did DM, just pointing out that it was happening long before any influx into the game.

[taxi1990]

who knows if a black driver would do as i would, everyone if different, there are some very nice black taxi drivers in the game. skin color does not mean anything, there are some horrible white taxi drivers, some who shouldn't have a licence. if a customer skipped a black driver for me because i am white, i would have any amount of reasons to refuse him/her. just because the NTA say a customer can take any taxi in the rank, doesn't mean i cant be choosy about who gets in my taxi. i could say if questioned about it that i thought the customer was drunk, being aggressive etc