Dublin Taxi drivers ...Non English Speaking ???

[dublin2018]

I had a Job last night to Rathmines, from Dame St .A french student told me I was the 1st taxidriver in a longtime that could speak english!!!.I asked him what does he mean ?.He said most taxis he gets, can't speak english whatsoever.I wonder whats going on?. I thought the test was a basic understanding of english?.Bob the builder could drive a taxi in Dublin and nobody would notice .

[john m]

With the amount of foreigners using our service taxi drivers should all have at least one other language as well as English .

[Rat Catcher]

It's getting like New York. It's nigh on impossible to find a taxi driver who can speak ENGLISH up above in Dublin. I think a lot of them are using Google Translate with mytaxi's online training manual and just memorising the shapes of the letters in the ENGLISH version of the answers.