Our statement regarding last week's proposal to introduce a mandate on helmets and high-visibility gear for people who cycle 🚴‍♂️ Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road. Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

Conscious any discussion on transport is polarising but can we agree on: 🚗 Less speeding in cities and towns 👮‍♀️ A Garda focus on speed enforcement 🛣 Road design and landscaping to reinforce this 🚴‍♀️ Cycling facilities that protect children (and ourselves) 🏍 Confiscation of illegal souped-up e-bikes?

What a wildly stupid idea. Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes. That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.

Fucking gombeens. Love to be seen to do something and it's inevitably the stupid knee-jerk wrong thing rather than the more difficult necessary evidence based thing that will upset some of their gombeen friends

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

did a little experiment with two cars on our street the 5-year-old is 105cm (3' 5") in bare feet. she could clearly see the steering wheel of the toyota, couldn't even see the windscreen of the yank tank I asked her where they'd hit if they hit her: "the little one my tummy, the big one my head"

"When cars come first, everyone loses"

It'll be kinda funny if forcing me to wear a helmet is the final straw that breaks me What makes cycling safer is treating cycling as a real form of transport, making motorists drive safely, and separating cyclists from the big heavy dangerous motorised machines with protected cycle lanes

Letter from Dr John Legge responding to the recent discourse on proposals to mandate high-visibility clothing for vulnerable road users.

Active travel means healthier people, especially healthier kids. We should be doing everything we can to support it. (Thanks to the D12BikeBus for letting me film them this cold morning!)

GRMA to all our loyal supporters for making the journey to London today to support us. 💚🤍🧡

This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.

Poignant letter by Dr Lisa McNamee in the Irish Times this morning.

Some people say the political cultures of the 26 and 6 will be hard to integrate. The shared enthusiasm for deliberately destroying our waterways to please the intensive farming lobby seems very compatible.

Our letter today.

The NTA’s 2024 Travel Survey is out. Car use is rising. Active and public transport are stagnant. The consequences aren’t future risks — they’re here, for our health and the planet. And make no mistake: this isn’t policy failure. It’s policy intent, locally and nationally.

Our Road Safety Strategy is broken! The RSA, Gardaí, and Local Government are pushing a campaign that tells people to “be seen” instead of calling out the real causes of deaths: speeding, red-light running, dangerous/illegal parking, and the near-total lack of enforcement. Stop blaming victims!

I contributed to this important article by @gerherbert.bsky.social regarding the safety on our roads. So many of these deaths are preventable tragedies m.independent.ie/life/red-lig...

How much high vis should we wear to counteract drivers using their phones while driving?

Wow the IT actually printed my letter #speirghorm

I am calling on the Irish government to learn the lessons from our peer countries and implement a default 30km/h speed limit in all built up areas, as previously promised. Lives depend on it. #SpeirGorm #Love30

🧵 Some ppl refer to the Irish right-wing party, Fine Gael, as ‘Blueshirts’, as part of their origin is derived from a Fascist movement. Let’s look at how this conservative party was formed, given that the party’s candidate Heather Humphreys is running in the Presidential Election [1] #SpéirGhorm

The science is clear: a default 30km/h speed limit in all urban areas will save lives! Any further delay in implementing this long overdue change is unforgivable. #Love30

The response from the Minister's representative at yesterday's meeting in Leinster House was shocking. It's very clear that this government is not taking road safety seriously and people will die as a result. www.fm104.ie/news/fm104-n...

I’ve had a lot of responses to this piece, so I want to clarify a few things. Writing and posting views like this isn’t easy. It often leads to pushback, even when the criticism isn’t aimed at individuals.

hi, medical toxicologist that knows a lot about Tylenol here👋 Claiming that tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism is fearmongering here's what you need to know 🧵

The 27 year old woman who was killed in Cork yesterday was cycling on a 50kph street in an urban area. The default 30kph limit promised by the govt may not have saved her life but it will save lives in the future. We can't allow them to renege on that promise. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Irish media reporting on road collisions too often dehumanises victims and hides driver responsibility. Cyclists and pedestrians are people first — the language we use matters. Read our full statement below.

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

Look at this cool map by @briggsrogers.bsky.social visualising the number of reports to collisiontracker.ie per 30m/sq, including accidents, near misses and hazards.

Tax these vulgar vanity vehicles out of existence. Nobody needs one of these cars Irish car bonnets are getting taller every year, risking children's and pedestrians' lives - study

Spoke today on Claire Byrne live advocating for better cycling safety with @ciarancannon.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

There’s a lot to unpack from the @irishtimes.com this morning besides the ongoing anti-cycling nonsense. This letter makes no sense. Yet another excuse-laden rant defending business as usual. Ireland deserves to pay its climate fines. We’ve made our choices. "Whataboutism" won’t cut emissions.

🕊️ Every road death is preventable, let’s stop acting like it's just a part of life. It is unacceptable that the convenience of people using motor vehicles outweighs the safety of people walking, wheeling and cycling in our densely crowded city. 🚶‍♀️ 👩‍🦽 🚲 🚗 💨

Ireland is an ecological disaster zone. And the largest land-owner in the country is a part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCXP...

If we are serious about road safety, if we are serious about climate action and a liveable future, it is certainly time to consider banning SUVs. A powerful letter by our own @olaln.bsky.social in this morning’s @irishtimes.com.

If we are serious about road safety, if we are serious about climate action and a liveable future, then we should ban SUVs. My letter in today's @irishtimes.com.

More flights, more emissions. My letter to the editor in today’s Irish Times. The media continues to offer free PR to high-emission industries such as aviation. This has to stop if we are to get serious about climate action. #BanFossilAds

Brilliant letter by our very own Dr Callum Swift in the Irish Times this morning! #ActiveTransport

Let’s fuel health not harm #BanFossilAds

Big Box retail is car-centric sprawl that wipes out small business, hollows out Main Streets, and leaves cities with giant dead shells. Every town ends up looking like nowhere. A new Not Just Bikes video. 👇

“We need carmakers to prioritise normal-sized cars that can be parked more easily and are less dangerous to people walking around. It’s only fair if you want to buy a massive SUV that you should expect to pay more for the space it takes up.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dr Caoimhe Clarke recently embarked on a 3-day train and cycle journey through the eastern Netherlands, and what a revelation it was. Read the full piece using the link! #ActiveTravel #ActiveTransport #SustainableTravel

I went car-free living in Waterford. Here’s how it’s going. Possibly the best investment we can make for a sustainable and healthy future is one that normalises cycling www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

"Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?" - really nice to see our motonormativity research being used to explain this. Cheers, @peterwalker99.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

💡 Own an e-cargo bike or trike in Ireland? Help shape the future of cycling! Dr. Robert Egan (Trinity College Dublin) is studying how e-cargo bikes are used, parked & experienced. Your input can drive better policies! 🗓️ Survey closes April 6 eu.surveymonkey.com/r/R8LN5PP

👀 We just surprised Tesla London with a special anti-fascist product launch. They hated it ☹️

More talk, no cattle here since he’s not going anytime soon: There has never been a manned Starship flight ever and there will not be until it is safe (last two launches went boom and most of others, eight in total, except a shaky 4th and an excellent 5th, have had an explosive result).