Monthly Archive: December 2010
Dec 09
The A to Z
Since I posted about A2Z Taxis earlier this afternoon, a couple of other people tweeted to ask the A2ZTaxis account about their “only IRISH drivers” tweet, and what it meant. A2ZTaxis answered their enquiries as follows: @Littlesapling If a forigen driver wanted to join our fleet he our she would be very welcome @SusanSRyan it …
Dec 09
“It just happened that way?”
This is the transcript of a telephone call I just made to A2Z Taxi: [I should note that I did not have an opportunity to identify myself as a journalist during the call.] “Hello, A2Z taxi.” “Can I speak to the manager there?” “He’s not here right now, you’ll have to ring back between the …
Dec 07
Numbers game
It’s been bothering me for a while, but until tonight I never bothered to do any research on it. Here’s Brian Lenihan’s version of it, as paraphrased by The Journal earlier today: “The Finance Minister said Ireland’s taxation system was no longer “fit for purpose”, saying that the upper 8% of taxpayers accounted for 60% …