Hey! Support our local business.... Uses AI generated graphic as the advert....

Full article available here www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Ciaran Ferrie's piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social nails the Govts capitulation on the Speed Limit Review. Identifying the urban roads that should be 50km (arterial) and 30km (everywhere else) is a relatively simple technical exercise with a small bit of guidance. Absolute cowardice.

Jim Gavin is out of his depth #Tonightvmtv #Áras25

It's not an exaggeration to say that high car usage and poor buses are an explicit policy choice. This is why the promises of a transport mecca post Galway ring road from agencies and parties with decades of neglecting public transport is such obvious BS.

This shit really grinds my gears, the vat cut for hospitality to cost roughly a billion and we're potentially facing either fare hikes or cut backs in public transport. Archaic thinking that public transport needs to be self sustaining or profitable www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

This video looks like it was done in tandem with the people protesting the Greenway

This is the only news source dedicated to cycling in Ireland. They're also an incredibly cheap subscription, if you have a few extra euro.

Independent Ireland leader spoke in Dáil of “huge discontent” over greenway, after he spread fearmongering of homes being a risk Independent Ireland leader and Cork TD Michael Collins challenged Taoiseach in the Dáil on the use of compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) for the Cork to Kinsale Greenway…

We're running out of time to nip this shit in the bud. The far right are gaining a foothold here in Ireland while the centre and the supposed left (looking at you Sinn Féin) witter on about legitimate concerns. Fuck these racists. Time we came down on them like a fucking ton of bricks.

A huge thank you to the ~50 people who have signed this so far. I'll write up a background doc for elected officials in the coming days and they can take this further with City Hall hopefully. 📸 Daybreak this morning on the safer side of the N22.

Cyclist in collision with truck. Pedestrian struck by bus. The driver is absent from the account. The vehicle is given agency. The vulnerable road user is positioned as the active party. A subtle but powerful way of shifting blame, shaping how we think about road deaths diminishing accountability.

We must stop victim blaming after road deaths - Ciaran Cannon www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This is an amazing point. The Government has dragged their heels on renewable energy for years. What snapped them into action wasn't the existential threat to our climate, but the infrastructural difficulties of tech giants. #spéirgorm

Motonormativity in the media. The normally righteous @404media.co here cheer a system to help people avoid fines for their illegal parking - because, of course, law-breaking doesn't count if it involves a car www.404media.co/find-my-park...

The Straight Road cycle lane is awful and leaves people stranded while trying to cross a busy road. Meanwhile, the same road (N22) has light segregation, an inner kerb, and a toucan x'ing a few km away. Please sign this petition to call for safer cycling to Bcollig. chng.it/FqrR59rysZ

Good evening to you all except for the dickhead clocked by the speed radar (accurate based on the speedo in the car I was driving yesterday) at 85 in the 50 zone and the wagon in the land rover looking at her phone. That said it was a lovely evening to walk to the gym in Furbo #galway #furbo

Racist property developer allows Muslim man to live rent-free

Homelessness is solvable — but only with political will - Lorcan Sirr www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

I look forward to Gareth Sheridan remaining in Ireland, getting involved in housing organisations - CATU maybe? - networking with local communities, marching in the streets and then running for county Cllr in the next elections - seeing as he's so concerned about housing 'n' all.

ON THIS DAY! 22nd September 1987 - Zig and Zag made their first TV appearance on #DempseysDen on @rteone.rte.ie That’s 38 years ago maths fans! Are you feeling old yet?! #ZigAndZag #IanDempsey #zigandzagday

Prepare to see a further rollback of safety measures in line with the social media driven tilt to the right. Social media driven, because I can say that nobody I know wants this, yet a loud minority of quacks is sending us into reverse because of successful contrarionaism. Sickening.

123 people killed on our roads so far this year. 26 while walking. 14 while cycling. 40 of 123.

Great to see this progressing Irish Rail confirms progress on double-tracking Glounthaune to Midleton railway in Cork – IrishCycle.com irishcycle.com/2025/09/19/i...

Looks like TFI, Dublin Bus and the NTA are still on the Nazi site. @irlgov should have a policy on Twitter for itself and state bodies.

Ireland: Three people travelling by bicycle have been killed in the last week. Ages range from 27 to over 80. Two men, one woman. Two Irish, one Japanese. One of the three vehicle drivers fled the scene.

Ireland: The number of people who are walking or cycling being killed on the road is now at the highest level in six years. www.thejournal.ie/four-pedestr... #spéirghorm #cycling #walking #dying

That’s 3 cyclists dead in one week. 😲😔 And our government continues to roll back on meaningful road safety measures like implementing a 30kph limit in urban zones, or using technology, all because it might upset some drivers. It’s a national disgrace.

Call this shit out immediately and shut it the fuck down. Show them that we don't operate on the US/UK rules where you can say any old bollocks without consequences. It's the only thing that will stop them getting a foothold.

It's likely a factor. As @gavinjdaly.bsky.social will attest, Galway City (population 86000) has a disproportionately large commuter catchment. The two local authorities have their headquarters just 500 metres apart in the same urban centre, while pursuing utterly incompatible "planning" policies.

"Sustainable Aviation Fuel" exists, days Darragh O'Brien, as if stating its mere existence was sufficient to answer the question, to say nothing of addressing the real world problem, which is to decarbonise air travel.

All credit to Cork City Council, logged ticket for a hedge blocking a cycle lane and saw this morning it was sorted....

Led on a merry dance around the airport business park and then having to scramble down the stairs to tell the bus driver he needs to go to the terminal was not on my to do list today.... 😳

yes okay we're all very old but this song still slaps just as hard as it did thirty-four years ago apparently gen z agrees, which speaks well of their taste

I don't often agree with Áilín's opinion pieces, but I can get onboard with this one SUVs "they’re a goddamned menace" www.echolive.ie/corkviews/ar... #suv #banSUV #Motonormativity #fuckCars

Leaving the house this morning using my jit approach to catching the bus (0650), realised no leap card half way up the road Back home, missed the bus and this is what faced me from the airport roundabout circa 0810.... Lesson learned 😂 A sprint was needed to make 0845 train

Jaysus, witnessed some absolutely ridiculous red light breaking this morning. Some absolute psychopaths out there

People warned us about the rise of the right in Ireland and the Gardai, politicians and media ignored it and said we didn't have a problem. The libraries were next and they were appeased. And now....

Why are Govt Ministers and official bodies still on X, so supporting this man's hateful platform?

a single billionaire is asking for the same amount of money it costs the irish state annually to fund 2000 artists on its basic income pilot scheme so that he can host a golf event *turns slowly to look at camera* www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

A lot of scare mongering about the proposed Greenway to Kinsale. Unfortunately the noisy minority get the headlines Thought this was a great contribution from Conn Murphy (farmer ) in Ballinhassig to the whole thing (southern star epaper)

If you think your home is at risk from a greenway, you are a victim of scaremongering irishcycle.com/2025/09/03/i...

Seven countries currently get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy. Norway and Costa Rica are at 98 percent

Cleaning the gutters and the pergola roof for the folks was the plan today. Moss on the front roof slates has been annoying me for ages so I gave that a go. Three hours later up a ladder with an extendable yolk and it's done and looks good but fuck me I should have just paid the man

Peter McKenna on Croke Park's capacity. There is a chance, he says, that the capacity will have to be reduced. And it’s all to do with the large proportion of obesity in the population. archive.is/202509060613...

The metal man, Tramore tramore.ie/the-metal-man/ Pics kg #coast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine

Waiting for that tipping point when most sensible people realise that transporting a single 80kg person in 2.5 tonnes of SUV was not the height of technical advancement but peak stupidity for the human race. Tax SUVs out of existence

This is great news. Unions have a very important place in our society.

A shared waking and cycling path was officially opened this week in Carrigaline www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari... The plans for this facility were featured in the Irish Examiner in 2022 under the headline: "Cork residents say council is 'ramming' greenway into their community".

“We can’t all be expected to bike.” Fair. But that’s not the point. “Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.” This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.