Meanwhile on the Roads...

This is shocking…its a war on the roads. Motorists v Cyclists and motorists are winning by the looks of it. that road is full of motorised vehicles, no cycle path, road takes you on to a very dangerous stretch of dual carriageway…only alternative to going south is through the hostile Bray main street….and then after all that your faced with that level of aggression just to ride your bike….what ever lead up to it…it doesnt take much for a motorist to get angry. Getting on your bike and going anywhere has become a very dangerous thing a person can choose to do…

Caller, Clane<Galway everyday 😛

Just writing this here in case the person I'm talking about is a fellow poster…

If you are a middle aged male cyclist clad head to toe in cycling gear and go at crazy speed up Nassau street towards Merrion Square in the mornings between 08:30am and 08:45am - slow the **** down!

I've seen you twice now, you're an absolute lunatic.

I'm cycling along the cycle track at a decent speed, he undertakes me at a crazy speed, swerves back in front of me, then swerves around another cyclist who was ahead of me, before proceeding to break the red lights at the top of Nassau street, almost running down pedestrians.

He's then (absolutely laughably) yelling back abuse at the cyclist he swerved around and when approaching the next set of red lights at Merrion square, blazes through them too at speed (again, almost running down a lot of pedestrians) and nearly gets hit by a white car turning out (whom he also proceeds to hurl abuse at, while again, completely and utterly being in the wrong himself)

I saw him tearing through the same set of lights last week on red when there were pedestrians crossing, they actually had to jump back.

Worst cyclist I've ever seen.

Anyone see any difference between these two incidents, apart from in one the poor child was killed?

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41576716.html

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41571811.html

Seems like identical actions on the driver's part though? Just shows chance outcome plays a big part in sentencing

I had a much, much simpler case of careless driving due from November 2022, due to go to Court last month, until the Garda Inspector decided to drop the case. These kind of delays aren't unusual, unfortunately.

Yer man had a death in the family on the day before the incident.

Not to worry, sure it was just an "accident" according to Teresa Mannion on RTE, despite the other lad being on the wrong side of the road on a blind bend with a worn tyre.

But sure, that could never happen again;

https://www.reddit.com/r/irelandsshitedrivers/comments/1ispwkj/lachinch_taken_from_tiktok/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Just no justice in life or from the courts. Why wasn't the guilty party killed at the scene and the innocent driver abiding by the rules of the road taken to hospital with "non-serious injuries"

Saw the clip of the statement Conall Keating gave post verdict. Well worded and spoken in very difficult circumstances.

All likelihood is the Defendant was on or distracted by his phone. I'd love to know the training and competency of the Garda examining phone.

If Gardai involved aren't the best available then we need to outsource that to private sector. Phones collect all sorts of data, and the appropriate expert should be used to investigate that type of evidence.

A young lad, who works from a good family, much like a young mother is going to get every chance going in this type of case. The case, in spite of families evidence, becomes all about the Defendant not the victim.

Judges are used to sentencing members of our underclass and are going to be bias when confronted by a decent lad/woman even where they have killed someone.

Does a side number doing RSA ads as well - an expert on "accidents" now

That important detail was conveniently omitted from the RTE report.

JFC, sending WhatsApps with a dodgy tyre, but it's just an accident.