A damning new report has found that racism is widespread in Galway’s taxi industry.
The controversial report, carried out by the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway, found that no taxi company in Galway employs black drivers.
The controversial report, carried out by the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway, found that no taxi company in Galway employs black drivers.
Galway’s taxi industry has hit back, saying that each driver is a shareholder and in effect works on a self-employed basis.
The report has made 12 recommendations, including that taxi drivers attend training sessions on racism as soon as possible. It also accuses the public of not always taking the first taxi in the queue. A survey revealed that 26% were trying to find an ‘Irish taxi’.
In response to the question, whethere they have experience racial discrimination whilst driving in Galway, 100% of African drivers answered affirmatively.
The full report is available here http://www.nuigalway.ie/human_rights/documents/galway_taxi_industry_report__riding_along_with_racism.pdf
I always seek out the Irish driver. You see, I believe that at a time of national emergency, I ought to do whatever I can to allow an Irish man or woman stay in their homeland and make a living and bring up a family. Looks like you don’t care about these values of tradition and heritage and homeland.
I also choose the Irish driver as a matter of course as does anyone with a smidgeon of fellow feeling so you know where you can shove your ‘damning’ report.
Who are you anyway?
Do you have a name?
I will go for the first driver in the queue, doesn’t matter what colour he is. Immigrant taxi drivers are people who have made their homes here, are rearing their families here, and some of them are Irish citizens, they are as much entitled to trade as someone reared in Galway.
The vast majority of sub saharan africans (this is PC speak for blacks) are illegal immigrants.This is borne out by an audit of PPS numbers for sub saharan countries set against the number of work permits issued,the number of student visas granted and the numbers granted refugee status,the rest are criminal invaders,many illegally allowed remain here by Fianna Fail.
There was never any visa or work permit for taxi or bus drivers to legally immigrate to Ireland and work in the taxi trade or in Dublin bus.The vast majority of sub saharan taxi drivers are illegal immigrants.They are criminals.
What is now required is an Irish sovereignty movement which will restore Ireland to the Irish ,arrest and deport all illegals and their children.The subversives who support these criminals stigmatise Irish people who want our laws enforced as far right and racist.
It follows that any far right movement is needed and justified.
Your support for foreign criminals is support for racism against the Irish people.You victimise Irish people twice by inflicting these criminals on our society and then blaming the victims as racists for objecting.
Frank.
I note that: “taxi drivers attend training sessions on racism as soon as possible..” What are these sessions? What do they teach? Who conducts these sessions? I find these indoctrination classes highly suspect. No, not everyone is entitled to ply their trade in Galway, Ireland if they so wish. One must be lawfully in the country and lawfully entitled to work. Not all of the foreign taxi drivers are, especially the clones.
If you go to a taxi rank how do you know the black taxi driver is an illegal immigrant or not, I think this illegal immigrant argument is just a smoke screen for racism.
Ger: I do not care whether he is a legal immigrant or not. Fianna Fail the Mass Immigration Party opened our door to cheap foreign labour. They never consulted me or asked my assent to the greatest demographic change in the history of Ireland, more catastrophic even than the Plantations of the 17th Century. I have no loyalty to Fianna Fail’s Mass Immigration policy, no more than I have to their sell-out to the EU/IMF and banking elites. It appears that you are a Fianna Fail supporter. Shame on you. How do you like your Finance Minister? The WORST in Europe! Same as your Mass Immigration policy. The WORST in Europe!
You state that “no taxi company in Galway employs black drivers”, and yet on page 24 of the report the researchers themselves observed that some 55% of the drivers were “African”. How is this possible?
According to the report, only one company was accused of rejecting black applicants – by no more reliable a source than hearsay (p5).
Can you kindly rectify this wildly inaccurate and slanderous claim, that unfairly casts aspersions on the people of Galway, who largely have opened their arms to migrants and treated them well?
Meanwhile, if this one taxi company is found to be discriminating in its hiring practices, I trust that the relevant action will be taken against them alone, rather than punishing the entire industry. Thankyou.
In response to Tim, I guess because most drivers are independents and do not work for a company. Unfortunately this report highlights Galway but it follows on from other reports of racism experienced within the trade by either other drivers or members of the public, in Portlaoise, Drogheda, Dublin and Cork. No doubt it is an issue elsewhere.
I think the issue of racism does not serve taxi drivers well. The solution is for the trade to up its standards and for the regulator to withdraw licences from drivers engaging in discriminatory practices.
Further it is not an issue exclusive to taxi drivers as illustrated by the practice of members of the public picking out non-black drivers. Imagine how that feels to the driver concerned.
Admin:
You object to members of the public seeking to “Hire Irish”. Do you similarly object to Irish capitalism’s campaign to “Buy Irish”? Is this a Fianna Fail site? Sure looks you’re a big Fianna Fail supporter.
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I experienced racism for the first time in my life in Ireland while there as a tourist, it is unfortunate, and racism does happen often, its part of social phenomena and demographic changes, which have accelerated in the last decade not only in europe but in many regions around the world due to the way world economy is waving with currents of uncertainty.
However, on the other hand, I do not agree with mass immigration, to any country, I think it not only causes legitimate anger in sectors of the population, but instigates more and more people to come, in this case to Ireland, from what I experienced there and what I have read of the asylum procedures, I highly feel that Ireland needs to review and restructure their immigration law and asylum program in the interest and welfare of its nationals, as well as for the preservation of local traditions and customs which are essential for the sustaining of an image and heritage as a people. the asylum policies need to be reformed to be simpler and expedite, thus detecting and ruling out fraudulent asylum seekers from the beginning before the state spends sums of money on people that should not be in the country to begin with, on the other hand, the immigration regulations should be reviewed so that its easier for those that have a legiimate reason to want to immigrate and live in reland, i.e. family ties, business creation, specialists in specific fields of need to ireland, people that will contribute to Ireland’s economy by creating jobs or delivering help to the community thru their experience and training in a specialty.
My idea initially was to set up a small business there, and make it grow as time went along, I have no need to leave my beloved country and wouldn’t even consider it, but I was willing to give it a shot then in the name of love, but after what I experienced there and seeing how confusing and tangled immigration law is, I was totally pushed away from the idea of settling there that I had when I first arrived, I returned to Mexico and a bit after my relationship ended with the Irish national I was in love with.
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