TAXI DRIVER GIVEN TWO DAYS TO PAY COMPENSATION USING PEPPER SPRAY

Date Published: 26-May-2009

A Galway taxi driver has been given two days to pay 2,000 euro compensation to another taxi driver for spraying pepper spray in his eyes following a row in a taxi rank at Eyre Square.52 year-old Martin Giblin, of Shudane, Athenry, pleaded guilty at Galway District Court yesterday to assaulting a foreign national taxi driver at Eyre Square on February 19th following a dispute over queue-jumping within the taxi rank.