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Wed Feb 21 2018 - 00:02

Sir, – Further to "Taxi complaints jump as passengers raise a stink about smelly vehicles" (February 20th), when I think of taxis, the word "rank" springs to mind. – Yours, etc,

BRIAN O’BRIEN,

Kinsale, Co Cork.

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