The taxi drivers waiting outside Belfast City Airport reckon they can spot the quarantine dodgers instantly. They take passengers from the Belfast airport to Dublin several times a week – the lucrative “Dublin run” – and point out that they were even busier at Christmas. Another driver shows me the automatic token on his windshield, for the tolls on the M1 on the way to Dublin. ArrivalsAt George Best Belfast City Airport, there are about eight arrivals a day, all from UK destinations, with a similar number at Belfast International. Yet fewer passengers has meant fewer taxi fares; at the taxi rank at Belfast City, the drivers are unwilling to be identified in case it damages their livelihood, which they explain has already been badly hit by Covid.

Source: The Irish Times April 17, 2021 00:00 UTC