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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,959 tomasrojo
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    Tenzor07 wrote: »
    MTB'er don't get away with it either, as soon as they move from cars onto two feet, the attitudes follow...

    I should have said that Frank Skinner didn't put cyclists in Room 101. He said nice things about them (a bit too much along the lies of "trying to save the world", but it was sincere.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 Corca Baiscinn
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    Wouldn't it have been great if there was a guest on she didn't know was a cyclist and got schooled on the reason for going 2 abreast and why it's safer for all concerned on live TV even the RSA ad nearly gets that right. I've never in my life felt an urge to contact the broadcasting authority but I do now :mad:

    Do complain! (As will I) but afaik it's rte you have to complain to first and if they don't addresss it to your satisfaction tehn the next step is the Broadcasting Authority. It certainly seemed to breach the conditions re causing/promoting/inciting harm or offence.

    I'd never heard of Room 101, so was this LL rip-off intended as light comedy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,095 ED E
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    Times is packed full of positive coverage today. Class.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,831 Annie get your Run
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    ED E wrote: »
    https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/eco-eye-1112/10825040/

    Cycling featurette contained within. Presenter gets cut up twice on the quays.

    Just getting around to watching this. The 'greenway' they talk about from around 12 mins in is part my commute, the roundabout they mention at the end of the greenway leads onto the R149, the bane of my life....The do talk about the speed of the cars there but would love for them to have looked at where the road leads to.

    We could definitely do with more of this type of programming / reporting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,415 Trojan
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    In case it wasn't posted somewhere here already:

    https://twitter.com/IrishCycle/status/952915215359856641


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 eeeee
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    Trojan wrote: »
    In case it wasn't posted somewhere here already:

    https://twitter.com/IrishCycle/status/952915215359856641


    I'd throw that into the Party Bus too Trojan, so more might catch it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,415 Trojan
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    Actually I just noticed that they updated to say they have enough (though personally I'd send them EVERYTHING).


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 eeeee
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    No harm, the more the better I'd say!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,776 Muahahaha
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    Dublin Cycling Campaign have sent a complaint about the Late Late Show piece on cycling to RTE

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/01/15/soft-headed-and-hard-hearted/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,831 Annie get your Run
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    According to twitter there was the usual 'balanced' discussion on cyclists on Ivan Yates Newstalk today.

    https://twitter.com/IrishCycle/status/953303091406934016

    I"m absolutely not listening back, do so at your peril!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,187 buffalo
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    According to twitter there was the usual 'balanced' discussion on cyclists on Ivan Yates Newstalk today.

    Is 'Richard Grogan & Ass' an actual law firm?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 Corca Baiscinn
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    According to twitter there was the usual 'balanced' discussion on cyclists on Ivan Yates Newstalk today.

    https://twitter.com/IrishCycle/status/953303091406934016

    I"m absolutely not listening back, do so at your peril!!!

    I listened so you wouldn't have to Annie....but how will you know where your rights end and your duty begins if you don't listen to the experts brought on for your enlightenment :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,831 Annie get your Run
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    buffalo wrote: »
    Is 'Richard Grogan & Ass' an actual law firm?

    :D:D brilliant
    I listened so you wouldn't have to Annie....but how will you know where your rights end and your duty begins if you don't listen to the experts brought on for your enlightenment :rolleyes:

    Indeed! I'll take my chances....:)


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,147 CramCycle
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    Employment Solicitors,Registered Trust and Estate Practitioners,and Registered Tax Consultants .Plain speaking and independent advice.Tweets not legal advice

    Why is this guy and his ass on a discussion show about cyclists?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 Chiparus
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    CramCycle wrote: »
    Why is this guy and his ass on a discussion show about cyclists?

    Clearly all the bankers were too busy?

    It was dreadful stuff, cannot have a passing law because solicitors would challenge it in court.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,959 tomasrojo
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    I see his twitter bio has "plain-speaking" in it, while @itaokelly who has been busy tweeting about cyclists needing to earn respect and stop being shrill, has "opinionated journalist" in her bio.

    Coincidentally, I also saw this today:
    https://twitter.com/iamreddave/status/953215378951372800


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    €900k awarded to family of cyclist killed in 2012

    https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2018/0116/933840-oleary-award/

    RIP I remember reading about this at the time. A terrible tragedy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,776 Muahahaha
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    Yeah that was a very sad case. Made sadder by him doing the Ring of Kerry cycle for a downs syndrome charity as his daughter has downs. And then worse by the driver of the Land Cruiser that killed him doing a runner to Australia. At least he got caught in the end but what a spineless creature.

    RIP Paud OLeary


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,490 Lumen
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    €900k awarded to family of cyclist killed in 2012

    https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2018/0116/933840-oleary-award/

    RIP I remember reading about this at the time. A terrible tragedy.
    Only 40% more tragic than Mary Harney being called an alcoholic, according to our wonderful legal system.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,792 magicbastarder
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    nowt to do with cycling, but good god:

    Drunk driver given community service for killing man, injuring gardaí
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/drunk-driver-given-community-service-for-killing-man-injuring-garda%C3%AD-1.3360756


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,778 Macy0161
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    nowt to do with cycling, but good god:
    There's feck all enforcement, and when cases do go to court, it always seems to be lenient. There is no real disincentive to dangerous driving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,490 Lumen
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    Macy0161 wrote: »
    There's feck all enforcement, and when cases do go to court, it always seems to be lenient. There is no real disincentive to dangerous driving.
    Did you real the article? The widow requested clemency.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 RayCun
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    Lumen wrote: »
    Did you real the article? The widow requested clemency.

    what about the severely injured garda?

    Four years driving ban, for getting drunk and driving into three people at speed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 mr spuckler
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    Lumen wrote: »
    Did you real the article? The widow requested clemency.

    I didn't read about the Garda who suffered life changing injuries requesting clemency though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,490 Lumen
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    I didn't read about the Garda who suffered life changing injuries requesting clemency though.
    Muphry's Law strikes again. (slaps self)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,778 Macy0161
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    Lumen wrote: »
    Did you real the article? The widow requested clemency.
    Views of the victims family don't seem to matter when they come out disgusted with a lenient sentence, so no pass for the judge from me.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,792 magicbastarder
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    i genuinely don't care if the widow requested clemency. i (possibly mistakenly) regard one of the reasons for a justice system is that it takes the task of levying justice out of the victim's hands. the effect on the victim and their family *is* evidence; but as the perp broke society's laws, they should get what society deems fair.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,606 schemingbohemia
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    The thing that gets me is that this drunk - Adrian Nestor - killed someone then uses his "depression" to drink more and then uses that as mitigation! If he was truly sorry he'd have given up the drink straight away.
    Whatever about jail time (which he should definitely have received) the very short driving ban is a disgrace.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,792 magicbastarder
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    What's weird is that his driving ban is about the same duration as the custodial sentence you might have expected. Is it just me who gets the impression that the courts treat driving as almost akin to a human right?


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