Dublin council offers “Second Spin” of freedom for teenagers who’ve had bicycles stolen
A programme in Dublin is offering teenage residents of the Fingal County Council area a replacement refurbished bicycle if theirs is stolen. "Most teenagers have low or no income, so if their bike gets stolen,…
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Vehicle strike on bridge clad in hi viz
'The bridge came out of nowhere.'
Anyone spot a cyclist (me) knocked off her bike along the canal at drimnagh today by someone who drove away? If you got a reg I’d love the help to report them! @ibike.ie
If you want an antidote to the ill informed announcements of the government this week, look no further than the wonderful people in Treo in Waterford - they have researched the e-scooter phenomenon, know the subject and now provide training to young people. Amazing www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Loads of confusion indeed. What's an ebike? What's the link between someone on a scrambler killing Grace and bicycle helmets? Is high viz a cloak of visibility on a sunny day?
Same here in Ireland. It took us traders a threat to make helmets mandatory to finally get together and start a thing. The conservative attacks are coming from all fronts, and we need a narrative to counterattack.
And honestly, no offence, but if you don't cycle in a city regularly, I don't care what you have to say about it because you don't have enough knowledge or experience to comment
You wouldn't care what I have to say about rugby and you'd be right
But I need to wear government approved clothes
It’s 2028 and all pedestrians are mandated by law to wear hi vis clothes at all times. Black north face jackets are illegal. Black mascara has been outlawed and replaced with neon. Drivers are still watching tiktok and saying didn’t see you there pal.
I heard a good one the other day. If I give you one euro every second, you'll be a millionaire in 12 days, but becoming a billionaire would take 32 years at the same rate. We don't realize how dreadful and insane it is that billionaires exist.
Maybe instead of harassing cyclists the government could do something about this kind of thing?
But that'd be harder so no
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...
And there we have it folks, having failed to do anything to halt the injury and death toll on our roads the government now plans to criminalise cycling.
This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
Fucking gombeens. Love to be seen to do something and it's inevitably the stupid knee-jerk wrong thing rather than the more difficult necessary evidence based thing that will upset some of their gombeen friends
THE IRISH TIMES In a disaster. the skeleton of society is laid bare. Politicians need scapegoats when their inability to make hard strategic decisions is exposed. Whether it be Met Éireann. the Habitats Directive, the freshwater pearl mussel civil society groups, or local authority officials. blame has to be ascribed somewhere. But who rezoned the floodplains, who allowed housing closer to river banks than was wise. who has drastically underfunded climate-adaptation measures for the past 20 vears?
"In a disaster, the skeleton of society is laid bare."
The Irish Green Party has a bit of work to do - this is the kind of message that could unite the left
@greenparty.ie
Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.
Promotion poster of sentimental value by Joachim Trier. The poster features the two sisters featured in the film hugging on a bed
If you're looking for grace in this hell hole of a world, go and see 'Sentimental Value'. It'll give you a bit of faith back in human things, as fucked up as they can be.
Here's a starter pack of various accounts related to Dublin City Council on Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/4naJbid
Any missing?
Cc @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
highway traffic Man Who Exited From 7 Lane Highway Can't Believe Entitled Cyclists Riding Two Abreast.
Man Exiting From 7 Lane Highway Can't Believe Entitled Cyclists Riding Two Abreast.
Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
There's a long history of bikes as tools of resistance. And for good reason!
⚠️ All Hands on Deck Needed to Respond to the Latest Attack on Access to Justice ⚖️
"This is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced" - @antaisce.bsky.social
🔗 Details and call for public submissions: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...
Have been contacted by some victims of deepfaking / non-consensual manipulation of their images by AI - about their experiences.
If anyone else in Ireland has a story they'd like to share on the issue, please feel free to contact me.
Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me
This is complete madness.
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
Screenshot of An Taisce's website titled 'all hands on deck needed to respond to the latest attack on access to justice'
This government is taking advantage of people struggling to make ends meet and of the international situation to try to make access to environmental justice impossible while everyone is looking away. Objections can be sent to aarhus@dcee.gov.ie
"The world's most prolific child sexual abuse material and sexual harassment factory is now on Fenian Street in Dublin. We don't need a dawn raid, or an Interpol investigation to reveal that address. We can just look it up in the Irish Companies Registration Office."
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
The relevant law allows for significant fines for companies, and for fines and up to 14 years in prison for directors or officers of companies that commit offences with their consent, connivance or neglect. There's no gap in the law here. X needs to be subject to criminal investigation.
