This is a cracker of a match. Munster currently doing the business. Beirne has been immense again with turnovers.

Watching an Italian cyclist cycle the wild Atlantic way (on prime). His commentary is brilliant, the videos he captured are absolutely stunning. What a beautiful country we have. I'm completely envious and gonna try and get back in the saddle for longer rides next year.

Found this en.eurovelo.com/ev15 after reading www.bbc.com/travel/artic... Definitely one for the bucket list. My approach would be a regular CX bike, 21 days not 10, meaning less km per days, rest days when needed and you have more time to explore the place you end up staying in.

Well that was a bit of fun.

Some more pics from a stained glass tour of the west. Loughrea Cathedral really is a museum of craft and art - such a simple and moving St Brigid by Patrick Pye from the 1950s in the front porch, as well as a whole host of masterworks by Ethel Rhind, Sarah Purser, Catherine O’Brien & Michael Healy…

Ecargobikes are a great way to move around the city 4 shopping, leisure, work or schooldrops. Our campaign has 2 types of ecargo bikes available for families/individuals to trial out. Contact [email protected] for queries #limerick #ecargobike

Our time with the Dolly cargo bike has come to an end. I want to thank Pat @pfitzp.bsky.social (@limerickecargobike on X) for letting us trial the bike. The end result? We're all in. Moving the kids via cargo bike is a no brainer. 1/3

We'll be selling cattle next week, so I tuned into MartEye for a while to see how sales were going. It is a bugbear of mine that the mart doesn't have an API ;) to get sales data from. Instead I scrape it and use chat GTP to create my guide for next week. I'd be happy if I got those avg's next week.

Thursday morning update with latest on heavy rain today and storm Amy tomorrow as weather warnings are upgraded for some areas. Watch video for full update.

On the cargo bike I clocked up 75km on school runs and collections in 1 week. Kinda surprised and chuffed at the same time. Getting a nice bit of exercise and beating traffic which is nice.

Lowry! Thank you!! Europe made hard work of it but my word that was drama.

Hello Norovirus... We meet again. I really wish you didn't cross the threshold. Totally wiped out. Now can someone pass me my flat 7up and glucose drink please.

Fantastic performance! www.rte.ie/sport/athlet...

Canada really fired up for this game. 2 tries in 10mins.

Pedalling around this morning dropping off the kids and the organiser for the three counties cycle came up along side me for a quick chat about the cargo bike. I won't be doing it this year but it will be back on my radar (soon). Check it out threecountiescycle.ie I hope it goes well on Sunday!!!

I've been doing the school run in the morning and with the weather been terrible the amount of traffic heading to schools in the mungret area is staggering. Tailbacks everywhere but thanks to the new bike lane all the way to school we get there in 8mins. Hard to beat that in a car on a good day.

This Irish team is in trouble against Armenia. Even if they win this I don't see them qualifying. Their come back against (10 man) Hungary plastered over the cracks.

20 Litres of paint, extension pole, skuttle bucket, rollers and brushes. No problem for the cargo bike.

That was fun!! First time seeing them live and they were great! Very well organised by Dolan's

I've been cycling a cargo bike for a little while now and I'm loving it. The little people love it too.. Today, I was on my trust worthy commuter bike and felt weird (fast) but weird. I kinda feel safer on the cargo bike. It's bigger for one, I feel higher up and more seen.

Well done Galway!!! (Not a great year for Cork and finals)

Lough Gur, Always good to visit thee. Until the next time.

1st of August tomorrow. How did that happen!?

Regulator’s ‘likely scam’ text system enters fourth week of glitches and incorrect labelling m.independent.ie/business/tec...

Uber a few days ago marked as likely scam (among others), now using SMS Highway to send their messages and using their senderid (SMSway) to avoid getting tagged... But why would I trust Uber (or anyone) sending messages this way?

Some more info about the cargo bike we have on loan. It's a Dolly Cargo bike, made in NL. www.dolly-bikes.com/de-dolly-bak... The controls are simple. Turn on the computer and set the level of assistant (1 min, 5 max). The gears at the back is an internal hub gear box. This has a lot of benefits.

This is the start of a very long process. The end result will ultimately be a reduction in funding. (Farmers won't be happy, some will leave farming, others will look at different usages of their farms.) www.rte.ie/news/europe/...

Hello.. what have we here, Ben Healy with 20km to go is 1 min ahead of the chasing pack. #tdf

We have the loan of a cargo bike here in Limerick. The scheme is funded by citizen innovation lab and with a few emails to @pfitzp.bsky.social we picked up the bike last week. It's fantastic. Drop off to crèche, head to park, get stuff in the coop (buckets of paint and a shovel!) - it does it all!

The roll out experience hasn't been great tbh. There was there was no way for 3rd parties to test prior to the switch on so I'm not too surprised. This needs to be resolved quickly otherwise there is a risk that people will see 'Likely Scam' texts as legit... defeating the entire purpose.

Ireland’s new crackdown on scam texts is labelling real texts as fraudulent – leading to confusion over hospital appointments, CAO offers, banking and insurance verification, travel, sports tickets and other things. m.independent.ie/business/tec...

The NTA bike share is getting a revamp. Stationless bikes, scooters and other changes all on the cards. Expansion due to the suburbs of Limerick by next summer.

Went for a spin on a stunning single track mountain bike trail here in the Netherlands. Through a forest and then sand dunes made for a tricky ride - you needed to be concentrating 100%. It was made easier by the fact I had an ebike but boy was it fun! 27km in an 1hr15.

Once upon time (last year) 8 points down in Gaelic football was a score near impossible to recover from. The new rule changes and Galway digging deep in the 2nd half managed to turn Armagh over with the last kick of the ball. Great win. Delighted to get out of jail.

While having breakfast this morning in Limerick I watched this sparrowhawk have his/her breakfast.

Well done to the team behind Webio!!

Over the years I've paid for tax advice for various matters. Sometimes to confirm what I believed to be true or to ask complex questions that needed the professionals knowledge and opinion.

Some day for it. 1st cut safely done. Yield is way down due the extended sunny period with little or no rain. Hoping that the 2nd cut will make up for it.

This will be very interesting. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

Really bad picture of what I spotted in the field today - a corn crake. It has been years (decades?) since I saw one on our land. Delighted they are back.

Thunder and lightning here in Kerry, presumably caused by yet another Healy-Rae county councillor being summoned into existence

Listening to @rtegold.bsky.social with Will Leahy at helm this morning (as we usually do) and the quicky quiz comes on. My eldest (she is just turned 5 this May) answered it correctly this morning (first time ever). I couldn't be more proud of her today. She was very chuffed as well.

Fantastic day yesterday running in the Great Limerick Run. Weather was perfect and the city was buzzing. Fantastic atmosphere along the route!! See you again next year!! (Limerick should have a couple more of these big weekends (with large events) during the year. The city needs them.)

Word of the Day is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and bask in its warmth.

My mum refers to those soft chocolate covered mallows (from Rose) Easter eggs as Guggie eggs. I never knew where the word came from, then I found this article on RTE which solved the mystery! Happy Easter! www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

There's an interesting article in the farmers journal about the IP (Intellectual Property) surrounding AI (Artificial Insemination) and how AI companies are looking to lock farmers in with membership. My brain defaults to artificial intelligence so it took a few reads to get my head around it.

This is a fine, fine piece of social media work....

I swear, the longer you look at this, the worse it gets…

My observation is that prices in the mart this year for same type/weight/age/breed of weanling cattle is approx 37% up on last year. Very much a sellers market at the moment. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Uummm....I think, well, you know, umm, perhaps we could do with a drop of rain.