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/> Talks between the Dublin Airport Authority and taxi drivers have ended this afternoon without a resolution.
Drivers have refused to pick up passengers at the airport after a row erupted over the DAA decision to withdraw 70 taxi spaces for use as car parking.
The DAA last night offered to reinstate 30 parking spaces but the taxi drivers insisted that all taxi spaces be reinstated.
They say the DAA took away the spaces without giving drivers any notice and that the issue was to be discussed at a meeting between the sides this Friday.
President of the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation, John Usher says the meeting was ‘pointless’.
“We’re at a meeting here, and the meeting ended last night and we came back to a meeting here this morning to try and negotiate a settlement” he said.
“We got the same offer as we got last night; the meeting here this morning has been pointless, it hasn’t been very successful”.
“We now have to go back down and tell our members that we’ve spent an hour, an hour and a half here – and we haven’t got anywhere”.
“So that’s basically it – we’re still at stalemate” he added.
The appointment of an examiner to Cappoquin Poultry in Co. Waterford has been confirmed by the High Court.
The chicken processing company employs 135 people and is insolvent with debts of €6 million.
Mr. Justice John Cooke noted the impact of the company ceasing to trade but granted court protection with some hesitation noting that the immediate future of the business is precarious.
It is dependent on a twice-weekly supply of chickens from a Dutch company that has reservations about continuing to trade with Cappoquin.
The court heard it requires a daily cashflow of €120,000.
New figures show 10. 9% of mortgages were more than 3 months in arrears in the 2nd quarter of the year.
That is up from 10.2% at the end of the previous quarter.
But figures today from the Central Bank also show a slight fall in the number of mortgages which were less than 3 months in arrears.
They are the pictures everyone is talking about but images of Prince Harry naked are missing from papers in the UK.
St. James’s Palace appealed to the British media not to publish them.
Newstalk’s Jack Quann has more.
