There’s a taxi shortage in Ireland. Just ask anyone trying to get home on a Friday or Saturday night. This year has marked a chronic shortage of taxi availability across the country, especially after the last of the pandemic restrictions were shed and social life recommenced in full. It has spurred discussions around the availability of transport’s role in everything from nightlife safety to rural isolation. In the short term, the Christmas period looms. Passengers have been warned of an acute lack of supply in what will be the first Christmas since 2019 when there are no restrictions on socialising.…