AN ONLINE message sent by an Irishman seeking two people to share a taxi from Barcelona to Cherbourg ended up with over 50 people sharing a bus last night.
Aidan O’Connell from Co Cork was among hundreds of Irish people using social media to find alternative routes home as volcanic ash continued to paralyse air transport across Europe.
Aidan sent a tweet on the Twitter network at 10am yesterday after organising a taxi to drive for 13 hours for his parents-in-law to catch the ferry in Cherbourg at lunchtime today. “I put it on Twitter and within three or four minutes we got requests. We changed the cab to a 25-seater minibus and later to a 55-seater minibus.” The cost came down from €450 each to €130 each.
“Twitter has been unbelievable, so instant, people contacted us in their droves. I would just love to be selling something,” he said.
