New enterprise trains coming everyone!

🚨 By every major metric, yesterday was the best day ever for Irish solar: - output reached 1179MW at 11.45am, equal to just over 1/4 of the island's electricity demand at the time - a total of 10.5GWh is the most ever in a single day, equal to just under 10% of the day's electricity demand ☀️ 📊 🥇

The records of the #1926Census were released on 18 April '26, exactly 100 years after the first census of the #IrishFreeState was conducted. This landmark collection is now freely searchable on the National Archives of Ireland: nationalarchives.ie/collections/... 📷: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0...

Dublin City has no active travel projects under construction, putting rollout of 214km network by 2030 into further doubt irishcycle.com/2026/04/18/d...

Galway ring road planning inspector’s report has little grasp on reality irishcycle.com/2026/04/09/g...

Folks if I see one more 'they don't treat climate/peace protesters this nicely' about tractors parked in Dublin. What if I told you it wasn't because gardai like those lads? It's because at least a few are headers & they're driving several tonne machines designed to drive over everything. #speirgorm

We’re so cooked

Dublin Fire Brigade has said it experienced "significant delays" responding to emergencies this morning due to the ongoing fuel protests in the city. It appealed to those involved "to ensure free passage of all emergency vehicles. jrnl.ie/7006656

The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife has announced.

Such an over the top protest about something the government didn’t even cause. Would be great if we could get that much protest when they actually do something wrong 🫠. #SpéirGhorm

It’s that time of the year again where we’ve given everyone jet lag of one hour, and for what? Sunset yesterday was at 7, and last light was half an hour after that. That’s not that early, and in a month’s time, sunset would have been at that time anyway. 🫠 #SpéirGhorm

I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more

Dublin council offers “Second Spin” of freedom for teenagers who've had bicycles stolen irishcycle.com/2026/03/06/d...

It’s incredibly cool to travel at speed above your city. Stop and appreciate it every once in a while. #SpéirGhom #DART

Ullard, or Controversyland, Co. Laois. 'Iolard nó Fearann an Chlampair' in Irish. The name stems from an ownership dispute between two landowners in the early 1800s. #speirgorm

Cllr Flynn lies councillors were “led to believe” Capel St, Parliament St were to pedestrianised Dublin City Council's South East Area committee was misleadingly told yesterday that councillors were "led to believe" that Capel St and Parliament St were to be pedestrian streets, implying cycling on…

www.radiokerry.ie/news/kerry-c... Quite the opposite actually… 🤦‍♂️

25+ years derelict. In Dublin City Council ownership since 2019. No funding from the Department of Housing to rebuild. The two derelict houses on 19 & 21 Connaught Street have been abandoned by the state. They're now structurally compromised and a risk to the neighbouring houses on the terrace.

Everything you ever wanted to know about MetroLink from @TheB1m Excellent overview of the history, politics, & construction plans for Dublin’s most anticipated Transport project youtu.be/T_Jz9xzOoO4?...

Transdev’s contract as operator of the Luas will not be renewed A joint venture between Keolis & Amey is expected to take over Keolis reached out to us as part of their bid and seemed to prioritise customer experience www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Future shock is the condition in which you are unable to cope with the increasing pace of technological change leading to disorientation Observers of Brexit, and indeed the British people, must be suffering from the opposite condition, a kind of "stasis shock" Too little has changed A 🧵

Microsoft Word’s best attempt at describing my image lmao

Classic #SpéirGhorm

Public service announcement: If you hit your head significantly with a helmet on, you probably still should go to A&E or your GP. If your helmet cracks or compresses you likely definitely should go to A&E. Helmets cannot stop concussions, the main form of brain injuries: youtu.be/druJDI6hiiY?...

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.

All bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...

It's not acceptable that the only way to get live updates on public transport is by having an account on X which is now under investigation for CSAM. TFI and Irish Rail need to start providing accessible and reliable updates on their own platforms instead of relying on X. #SpeirGorm

Ourselves, @dublincommuters.bsky.social, @galwaycommuters.bsky.social, & Cork Commuter Coalition wrote to Iarnród Éireann & the NTA today, asking them to cease posting real-time service updates exclusively on X. This vital info should be widely available. Read below: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New map work! Greenways of Ireland. Something I've been wanting to do for a long time. Surprising just how many there are, and even more in planning #GreenwaysIreland #ActiveTravel #Cycling See more about the map on @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social here: www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/greenways/

📣📣 Seachain an bhearna le bhur dtoil!

The old trainshed at Kilkenny station has been cleared out. A good sign that is may reopen? Hopefully! It needs to reopen, not only to provide shelter to passengers, but because the current platforms are too short for 7 car trains. #SpéirGhorm

Engineers Ireland are calling for 2:1 spending on public transport to be brought back in to reduce congestion and car dependency. It was introduced by the Greens and removed by FF & FG in this government resulting in delays to projects like DART+ and Luas Finglas. www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...

They've done it again, they've cut more rail projects. The most criminal one for me is cancelling the reopening of the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare line. On the left is the All-island Rail Review published by the last government and on the right is the plan published today.

Short-haul flights in the EU stay artificially cheap because the system is rigged. Greenpeace and allies urge the EU to defend Article 20 and limit flights where trains should come first. Cheap flights are a political failure. Rail must win.

A fantastic report from Limerick with an unequivocal conclusion: the majority of Limerick’s protected cycle lane schemes “maintained or enhanced” access for emergency vehicles. Will our planners listen though? That is the question.

This is a great idea. A good way to get the changes necessary to get the DART to Kilcock when they’re doing work for the depot in the area anyway.

Govt TD asks why Dart and Luas are delayed “in favour of funding roads”, two others look for rail projects to be funded -- When opposition highlighted delays, Tánaiste Simon Harris claims -- after defunding shovel-ready rail projects -- that it doesn't have to be "either-or in terms of road…

Another delay for Galway BusConnects We are deeply disappointed to discover that the timeline for Galway's long-awaited new bus network has been pushed back yet again. Read our press release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Green Line services have started to resume after two days of disruption, the chaos it caused on the roads shows just how important the Luas is to Dublin Commuters Imagine how much better Dublin traffic would be if Government actually delivered Luas Finglas/Lucan/Poolbeg & Bray

Electro-diesel Stadler Flirts selected to replace Dublin – Belfast Enterprise trains www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and....

TII says there's nothing it can do to fix the traffic on the M50. They could try building Metro West.

Shovel-ready Luas and Dart projects delayed “to free up funding for more roads” The Government is delaying shovel-ready public transport projects such as Dart+ South West and Luas Finglas in order "to free up funding for more roads", the Green Party's transport spokesperson, Cllr Feljin Jose, has…

That’s quite an own goal by Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien delaying the Finglas Luas by two years, and stalling on DART+ South West till 2030, on World Sustainable Transport Day, no less. Who needs Judicial Reviews when Fianna Fáil’s running the show?

Luas Red Line services between Connolly and The Point will resume tomorrow, three months after they were curtailed following a fire on a bridge in Dublin

The Luas Red Line will be fully operational from tomorrow, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has announced. Services between Connolly and The Point had been suspended since August, when a major gas fire occurred at George's Dock. jrnl.ie/6886914

DART+ South West is shelved until 2030. It has full planning approval since 2024, no judicial reviews and is ready to go but construction won't start until after 2030. A lot of housing around Adamstown and Clonburris built in anticipation of this upgrade.

Government goes cold on ordering new trains, so 41-year-old Dart fleet — breaking down daily — to keep causing issues for rail network for years A conservative approach by the Department of Transport to ordering replacement Dart train carriages will lead to increased reliability issues on the…

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