Brilliant! Nature has enormous healing benefits!

We have a huge problem with speeding in Ireland. The majority of motorists, many in our legal system, many TD's and Cllrs see it as people's right to break the posted speed limit on any given road. They see enforcement as an attack despite the fact that enforcement saves lives.

"Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few." —Ivan Illich (happy 100th anniversary of his birth!) (photo: #Brasilia)

There is no world where anyone should be able to accumulate 44 driving convictions. 44 convictions and he still was left back on the road to deliberately endanger someone's life. Now he gets a small fine and will be back on the road again in a few months. Our lives mean nothing to them #spéirgorm

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

Some readers say that IrishCycle is great, but it's "preaching to the converted." But most groups focus on informing people within their own group/industries/etc, and IrishCycle's reader base certainly goes beyond "the converted". Even accounting for the spike, this isn't just a narrow reader base:

Kerry hospital bike shed — your questions answered, and your wild claims debunked -- Let's be honest, most people complaining are also complaining about all active travel and environmental funding. But there are also questions that make sense to ask. Comment & Analysis: The cost of €127,385 for…

Amsterdam is the world's first capital city to ban public advertisements for both meat and fossil fuel products. "Since 1 May, adverts for burgers, petrol cars and airlines have been stripped from billboards, tram shelters, and metro stations." www.aol.com/amsterdam-ba...

Do healthcare staff not deserve somewhere safe and comfortable to store their bikes? Yes, fiscal prudence is important, but it is time to question the true cost of cars to our society, not bikes. Investing in active transport = investing in public health.

Toxic populists are going to sour all public spending: No, secure bike parking for hospital staff is not the same as Dáil bike shelter Comment & Analysis: There's never money for people on the front line, says Sinn Féin spokesperson on finance Pearse Doherty when he's complaining about a secure…

The healthcare community must speak out and use their trusted voice and leverage their influence to rebuild society for health after this crisis. A great piece from @olaln.bsky.social and @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social in the @bmj.com. Link: www.bmj.com/content/393/...

“Stop regarding road traffic deaths as inevitable tragedies” says emergency medics as Govt “frighteningly off course” for 2030 safety target -- To cut road deaths, appoint a commissioner for road safety, roll out speed cameras, redesign black spots, and restore road policing, says medics. The…

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Yep

Over 53% of Cycling Ireland members experienced dangerously close pass on last cycle More than half of Cycling Ireland members surveyed experienced a close pass in which a motorist passed dangerously close on their last cycle, and 51.5% said they were involved in a collision or a serious near miss…

Now it's time for the Department of Agriculture and Michael Healy-Rae to offer a formal apology to all children in Ireland. Also, maybe ask @irishrainforest.bsky.social to write a replacement book.

My brilliant colleague, Ciara Murphy, from @jcfjustice exposing how the fuel blockades last week reveal how "deeply unserious we are about the climate crisis and the pressing need to decarbonise." www.jcfj.ie/2026/04/15/w...

A "Sitka Spruce, the Amazing Timber Tree" book was sent to every primary school in Ireland this week.

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This is a very interesting development...

This graph should be on the front of newspapers. From Sinead O'Sullivan: www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap

This is very good from Conor McCabe and one of the few piece's of analysis I have read that clearly links the fuel protests with Ireland's deeply unequal and dysfunctional grass-fed agricultural system. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Our statement on the Galway Ring Road. Building more roads on a world on fire is truly an act of insanity.

Madness.

Cars are kings in Ireland. Another perfect example of our dysfunctional, unhealthy, car-centric transport system, where cars and drivers are prioritised above all else.

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Three cheers for @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. Am reading and listening to too many self-styled fans of liberal democracy saying, in effect, 'let's park international law for the moment and talk about....'

Great to see such strong support for more safety infrastructure in #Limerick. Just goes to show that the fundamentalist fringe on Facebook etc, while loud, are a distinct minority.

“I may fall out of the chair onto the road” — video highlights impact of footpath parking The "real and often overlooked challenges caused by illegal and inconsiderate parking" is the theme of a new video launched by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, but that applies across the country. In…

#Pedestrian serious injuries in #Ireland 2020-2024 - 89% on straight roads - 89% on urban roads (<60km/h) - 64% in daylight If you can't see me on a straight urban road in daylight it doesn't matter what I wear. #HiVis Data from #RSA Link below www.rsa.ie/docs/default...

7 deaths on our roads over the weekend including a 16 y/o girl walking her dog. Why the obsession over hi-vis? Why the reduction in active travel funding? Where are the 30km/h zones? Where are the red light cameras? Why no enforcement? Why aren't intelligent speed systems default on new cars?

Many of the same people who shake their heads at the US issuing bullet-proof rucksacks to schoolchildren as it does nothing to address the actual problem will tell you that mandatory hi-vis is a good idea. Hi-vis should never take the place of more effective controls or be used for victim-blaming.

Join Kate McAney for the talk ‘Leather Wings and Bushy Tails’ Learn about the conservation work of VWT Ireland, focusing on the Lesser horseshoe bat, pine marten and Irish stoat. 7:30pm, 18 February 2026 Tara Building, Room T1.17, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social

The really remarkable thing about the return of Presbyterianism to the Falls Road is the central role of a former IRA prisoner in instigating it. Signs of significant social progress (Also, Omnis gloria Deo!) www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

Beg buttons relegate pedestrians to second-class citizens, forcing them to apply just to cross the road safely. It’s time to get rid of them and prioritise people, not cars. #ReimagineDublin

Reducing - and enforcing - speed limits for ALL vehicles to 30km/hr in urban areas & cameras to detect cars breaking traffic lights would save scores of lives annually, but it might annoy some motorists so instead we get this performative BS from gov’t. www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...

The Netherlands is not a pedestrian paradise, but I'm confused why anyone thinks Ireland is better irishcycle.com/2026/01/01/t...

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

The Minister for Climate and Environment actively working to increase emissions and worsen environmental harm.

#NitratesDerogation The Irish government are doing exactly the opposite of what the science is telling us to do.

Almost all (90%) of Ireland’s natural habitats are in a poor condition, including coastal & freshwater. This is 5% more than 6 yrs ago. 51% are declining while only 9% show signs of improvement. Rather than solutions, govt are adding problems e.g. derogation😞 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

BREAKING: Ireland's nitrates derogation has been renewed.🗳️ This has no scientific basis & fails nature, the public, & farmers. “The evidence simply did not exist to justify renewing Ireland’s nitrates derogation" "Meanwhile, our precious water and wildlife suffer.” swanireland.ie/2025/12/rene...

Wow!

“There is still hope in the handwriting that refuses to be mass-produced for the world.” Leena Norms Let me recommend the Advent Poetry Calendar by @annierutherford.bsky.social raising funds for #MSF This year’s selection fits the world we live in like a glove mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...

The price Ireland's ( & world's) native wildlife pay for our excessive gluttony of meat & dairy is truly horrific & barbaric. 🤷‍♂️ More plant based diet we can manage, the more wildlife survive. 💚🌳

The best Advent Calendar is back!

I know far too many people who have been knocked off their bikes, and not once has it happened because of poor visibility or because they were not lit up enough. In each case, it was the fault of dangerous driving and/or dangerous infrastructure.

This country is ridiculous www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...