[dubmess]

Didn't see anyone posting this here and i just came across it this morning so apologies if I'm double posting...

A baffling piece from Wednesday's Evening Herald, from the motoring section of course. It's a hate piece about cyclists that tries to be a review of a new VW car... I'm so stunned by it I'm wondering if it's tongue in cheek and I'm just not getting it...

choice quote:

"Take, for example, the strange wizardry concocted by the Dublin Cycling Campaign or 'The Adults Who Can't Drive Cars Campaign'.

Their big idea for Bike Week is to allow cyclists to cycle through red lights and to go the wrong way down one-way streets.

For once I am all in favour of adopting this policy, for what better way to cull the number of cyclists in Dublin by allowing them to cycle even more erratically and illegally than they do already.

I'd love it if I were sailing through a green light and a fleet of bicycle-clip-wearing loons came across my path"

Wow...

Full article:
http://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/motor...e-3158564.html

[seamus]

Looks like Tim Allen got a job working for the Herald.

There's not enough vinegar in the world for that chip.

[Beasty]

I got that Friday Feeling...

[Bunnyhopper]

There are sensible critiques to be made of cyclist behaviour and the law around cycling: that bit of petrol-sniffing drivel doesn't make any of them. It reminds me why I never buy the Herald.

He's retweeting some comments on https://twitter.com/#!/ianmallon - mainly the abusive and inarticulate ones, I'd guess, but then they would appear to be the ones in his language.

[petethedrummer]

...that reminds me, I need to get toilet roll on the way home.

[kincsem]

"I'd love it if I were sailing through a green light and a fleet of bicycle-clip-wearing loons came across my path."

The police should speak to him.

[GlennaMaddy]

The author has many pet hates, includingbudgies it seems

[crusher000]

Maybe for his next article her should interview a familly that have lost a loved one whom was out cycling and was knocked over by a motorist . Just to add some balance of course.

[Bunnyhopper]

Originally Posted by crusher000

Maybe for his next article her should interview a familly that have lost a loved one whom was out cycling and was knocked over by a motorist . Just to add some balance of course.

It's a bad article any time, but now that you mention it, it is spectacularly bad taste for the Herald to have published it so soon after the death in Kerry.

[Rew]

To be fair its the Evening Herald, the dog who's pen it lining isn't going read it so what odds!

[AstraMonti]

It's not even worth the publicity that it's getting here.

[breezy1985]

Originally Posted by GlennaMaddy

The author has many pet hates, includingbudgies it seems

Hes avin a go at the birds now

[Gavin]

Sent a tweet to the CEO of Volkswagen Group Ireland pointing it out. I know they have nothing to do with what a journo hack says, but surely they can't be too happy that they are associated with such drivel.

[dubmess]

Originally Posted by Gavin

Sent a tweet to the CEO of Volkswagen Group Ireland pointing it out. I know they have nothing to do with what a journo hack says, but surely they can't be too happy that they are associated with such drivel.

I just posted it on the VW Ireland Facebook Page also.

[Pherekydes]

Trying to write in the style of one JC and failing miserably.