How many times a year do you go abroad be it for holidays or business?

right on....but be careful, you might be accused of thinking for yourself, imagine that ! 😀

seeing a lot of these type threads being started, asking ppl about habits and lifestyles, almost research like threads eh ?

ive one gesture to that🖕

Do you really need an answer to that question? Have you looked out a window in the past 7 weeks??

I drive to France a lot so you’re speaking to the converted 😀

Out of interest, what age are you?

Island life means planes and boats unfortunately. Everything you're using, the clothes you're wearing, the food you're eating, probably came here on a boat or and ferry.

If you were to ever limit people on how much they can move off an Island, you've effectively transferred the state into some kind of weird prison. Most people would leave (Myself included)

In an ideal world we'd have a land link of some description to the continent, but Brexit and all the explosives in the Irish sea means that's effectively impossible (for now).

The EU (France in particular) is doing everything it can to reduce plane travel, and in many cases for short hops, the train is faster. and some short hop flights are no longer allowed.

Japan is trialing mag lev super conductor trains. they travel at 600 km/h (could probably go faster). In 50 year or so its likely that tech will be in Europe, as we're only getting round to building HSR now. Ireland will never be part of that though because of geography. we depend on the movement of people and good via sea and air more than any other country in the EU.

Luckily I now live in a time where I can own more than one pair of shoes and eat three meals a day that don't all consist of potato.

Not sure what your point is. Do you want us all to go back to living in hovels and writing depressing poetry about how sad and cold we are all the time?

Turn the clock back to 1993... Ireland had 3.5 million people, no Ryanair, No Data centres, no preferred pronouns!

People couldn't afford a car so we cycled, got the bus.. and walked, something people don't do now...

I guess you have no car, no gas heating in the house, walk/cycle/bus everywhere, don't have children and are at the local library using their internet PC and not a Smartphone?

Ive seen people walk cycle and get the bus today - in fact outdoor exercise including walking running and cycling is probably bigger now than it ever was and certainly more popular than in 1993 - I was still cycling into town back then and there were a hell of a lot less cyclists on the road then than there are now - I’m not really sure what your point is- make us all poor again? Get rid of equality legislation?

Less people, less car ownership, no cheap flights, people mostly stayed in their local areas..Of course you have seen "more people" on the bus etc. there's an extra 2 million people in the country now so that would be why..

The point here being is that Ireland's carbon footprint from Transport was much much smaller and things need to go back to that..

If that ever came to pass...How do we get abroad ?

Because there won't be an Aer Lingus, Ryanair might still be around but will hardly be flying in here, no money for em...

How do we monitor it ? Government officials swiping a passport as you attempt to leave ? Expensive, undemocratic and one of the principles of the EU is free movement of people. So we'd have to leave the EU...EU citizens won't vote not to travel....

Completely unworkable and nonsensical.

The aurora borealis, The British Museum, Guernica by Picasso, Disneyland, Tornado chasing, Niagara Falls, Lenin's preserved body, the Vatican, steak tartare, Machu Picchu... yeah fairly sure Ireland doesn't have any of that to offer. Maybe the Aurora the odd time up north if you're lucky.

You're getting way off topic here, going abroad for holidays a number of times a year isn't the same as leaving once to emigrate.

This thread has inspired me to book a holiday, to get away from the misery…..Thanks 👍

But ye will all demand that farmers get rid of their cows to reduce carbon and shift production to cleared rainforests out of sight and mind in Brazil. This carbon reduction business is not simple.

A genuine question. Is this by choice or circumstances? You pontificate an awful lot on the plusses and minuses of various cars on the Motoring Forums for someone who chooses not to drive in order to save the planet. Have you had the opportunity, or means, to take a holiday abroad in recent years?

Do you use precious metal powered phones, tablets, scooters etc? Do you buy clothes online expecting next day delivery?