Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.

@Love30.ie: “We are asking all supporters of lower urban speed limits to join us outside the Dáil Chamber on Kildare Street from 10:10-11:30 on Thursday 2 October to demand urgent action on the implementation of the default 30 km/h urban speed limit. This issue affects everyone, so spread the

Make sure your Climate Action Week event is up on this great new website that shares events taking place all over Ireland: climateactionweek.ie @climateambassador.bsky.social #ClimateActionWeek #ClimateAction

Petition to replace "dies following" with "killed in" - more direct language gets across what actually happened in these cases, especially those involving pedestrians and cyclists, many of whom are killed almost instantly.

And our so called road safety agencies failing us by only seeing safety from behind a windscreen.

This won’t do anything to halt the demeaning singling out of those of us who have prosthetic metal implants in our bodies for a full body rub-down when we set off the whole body scanners going through security. Every single trip.

Important study (that rather flies in the face of recent vaccine decisions) that considers the risk of Covid (and long Covid) on the cardiovascular system and the need to note and rehabilitation to better manage CV symptoms. Also suggest vaccines are an important tool to prevent such complications

Join us with Love 30 at the Dáil to defend 30km/h speed limits! ⭕️ Stop the U-turn on safer speeds 📍 Outside Dáil, Kildare Street D2 📆 2 October ⏰ 10.30am - 11.30am 30km/h limits SAVE LIVES. We need to stop this U-turn and YOU can help on Oct 2. www.love30.ie/saving-lives...

Here's a plot of fertiliser imports into #Ireland over recent years. By far the greatest tonnage is for N-compounds, with a marked up tick in 2023-'24. Intensive ruminant production sucks nitrogen & our rivers/lakes show it, but let's hold onto the #NitratesDerogation & sacred cows. [Data CSO]

As the Irish Minister for Agriculture vows to fight for the right to keep filling rivers with levels of agri-pollutants illegal in the rest of the EU, results show a massive leap of 16% in a single year. Whoever told them it was okay to turn OUR rivers into open sewers? share.google/k7hbDw2O4shX...

The vehicular arms race has forced people into paying up in order to survive. It's no longer about quality or luxury, it's about being the family that's heavier, larger, and less likely to die in the eventual crash. This is predatory capitalism at its finest.

Envy Month Icon, Day 16: Jonas Salk he didn’t patent the polio vaccine, didn’t cash in, and didn’t hoard the cure. When asked who owned it, he replied, “Could you patent the sun?” That humility, that choice to serve humanity over self, makes him the kind of figure envy can’t touch

Recent EPA report highlights river nitrogen pollution rising again River wildlife is vulnerable to pollutants, as evidenced by devastating River Blackwater fish kill. We can’t build resilient river ecosystems with ongoing high levels of nitrate pollution www.antaisce.org/news/continu...

'More than 5 years have passed since the emergence of #SARSCoV2, the virus responsible for #COVID-19. And despite some progress, the virus continues to circulate worldwide, causing infections, hospitalizations, and long-term health complications.' 👇 www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/debunki...

That’s a definite +ve! We’re told that #COVID19 is over. This was likely contracted in a local gastropub last Friday that was packed with a lot of HCWs from the local acute hospital where no staff use an appropriate respirator in patient-facing exams. Public health is shot!

So what's the plan for those of you I/C road safety? c. 32% of fatalities so far involved #ActiveTravel users. #VisionZero is not a slogan. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Are there no alarm bells ringing with our ministers I/C transport & in our road safety agencies? @irishcyclingcampaign @cyclingireland @irishroadvictims @PARC www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Yet another tragic and shocking road fatality involving a man cycling and a driver of a car who failed to remain at the scene. RIP, our condolences to this man's family. That is two cyclists killed on Irish roads over the weekend. This cannot continue. www.meathchronicle.ie/2025/09/15/t...

@irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social Damien O'Tuama was out on the newly opened Carlingford-Newry greenway. Report on BBC NI: www.bbc.com/news/article... The report deals with the strong opposition from landowners to its progress onwards to Dundalk. @cyclingireland.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social

Why is is so hard for people to say these words?: Lough Neagh, the UK's biggest lake, is being killed by *livestock farms*.

Last Night of the Proms with a “special performance of rock band Queen's iconic Bohemian Rhapsody to mark the 50th anniversary of the song's release. Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor will take the stage to perform it.” www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

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.

One in three fatal crashes is linked to speeding. Yet speed limit reforms have been shelved. 🚦 Road safety is not urban vs rural, or green vs anti-green. It’s a public good. My latest @independent.ie opinion column 👇 #RoadSafety www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

These digital bus arrival times are pipe dream stuff @dublinbusnews.bsky.social

Ambient Air Pollution and the Severity of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathology jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

These local hand-cut granite paviours on many street pavements in #Dublin are superior to the cast concrete slabs or imported cut white granite.

In #Ireland we have 113 dead in RTCs to 5/09/25 with c. 1,400 serious injuries (not reported @garda.ie Traffic). We don't get serious analysis of KSIs other than RSA summary reports dealing with time of day, season, weather, gender. Why? #motordom? tinyurl.com/54z5zw8y Every aircraft incident

"The eyes of future generations are on this generation, silently urging us to act bravely and quickly on the #climate emergency". An extract from THE LIE OF THE LAND is now published in the Irish Examiner. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

Ultra-processed foods have been linked to obesity and other health troubles, but is the grouping to broad to guide dietary choices? go.nature.com/45SjizH

Have articles in today’s Irish Daily Mirror and Daily Star challenging Irish myths about “feeding the world”, based around issues discussed in THE LIE OF THE LAND

All About Cork: New pedestrian and cycle route opened in Carrigaline www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Our sincere thanks to Tania & Hazel Lynn Doyle for sharing their heartbreaking experience of losing their husband & father Derek. We are utterly shocked the Fingal CoCo deem this junction to be safe for trucks & vulnerable road users to share.1/3

It was nice to be at a book launch earlier @ria.ie for @thinkorswim.bsky.social new book ‘The Lie of the Land’. Great that Mat Cooper @todayfm.bsky.social has provided John with a weekly slot on his radio programme.

@corkcyclingcrew.bsky.social engaging with the opponents to the proposed Cork-Kinsale greenway. "This greenway has the potential to be far more than a leisure facility. By linking communities such as Ballinhassig, Riverstick, Belgooly, and Kinsale with Cork City, tinyurl.com/22mvnlgk

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

“The Cork–Kinsale Greenway represents a chance to reimagine how we connect our towns and villages, while giving people of all ages the freedom to travel safely and independently. It is an opportunity we cannot afford to lose.”

Our press release on the Cork to Kinsale Greenway corkcyclingcampaign.com/press-releas... @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @irishcycle.com @cyclingincork.bsky.social @bcolligst.bsky.social

This is what the @ec.europa.eu Commission has set in train for all of us with its abject caving in to the administration in DC that will likely lead to imports of these oversized 'cars' into our country.

This is a terrible, backward step by this government when it comes to road safety in Ireland. It is a clear abandonment of the promised 30km/h limit which was put into law as part of the Traffic Road Act 2024. 30km/h in urban areas is proven to safe lives – its needs to happen now.

“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.

That’s strange, because a genuine swarm of honeybees will ordinarily not go into attack mode. When I kept bees I could literally put my hand into the swarm cluster without harm.

I am thinking aloud here about the disturbing 'disappearance' of two young boys & the failure of the state services & their communities to detect their absence from homes. In the case of young girls one could posit that perhaps an illicit #FGM procedure had been botched with sepsis leading to death?

Irish Cycling Campaign member Michelle Hardiman recently returned to Dublin from Berlin. In this article she describes her over-land-and-sea adventure home, all taken on her new Brompton foldable bicycle. www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/summer-2025-...

It would help if we had consistency in what type of emblem/flag that festoon our public realm poles. Do we really have to have @leinsterrugby.bsky.social flags tied to lampposts by plastic cable ties all along approach roads to RDS pitch?

Molecular biologists understand why we must try bike use rather than reach for car keys!

The NIMBY-ism is real. If the Waterford greenway and similar projects have proven anything the worries are overblown. Self sabotage... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm... @irishcycle.com @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @waterfordbug.bsky.social @corkbeo.bsky.social @what-if-cork.bsky.social

Check out this fab video from out colleagues @corkcyclingcrew.bsky.social. It's so lovely to see how all the different sizes & types of bikes fit different families & businesses. Cargo bike life is great craic too! youtu.be/EltpkLwvWOI?...

"Cycling alone isn’t going to remedy Ireland’s shocking happiness and mental and physical health scores, but the Dutch are getting plenty right, it seems." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Preliminary design for Boyne Greenway to be in place by year’s end www.meathchronicle.ie/2025/08/24/p...

@irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social #RotharRoads “Caitríona Corr from Kilkenny and Jo Sachs-Eldridge from Leitrim, both members of the Rural Cycling Collective within the Irish Cycling Campaign, came up with an idea to reclassify some of these minor rural roads.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...