Meanwhile on the Roads...

"Kettle" & "Pot" springs to mind

I was close to posting something similar - our "professional" drivers are just as bad in my experience (perhaps worse given the additional consequences).

I'd agree with him and it's a multi-faceted problem with seemingly no interest from the stakeholders in law-making/enforcement/judicial to address it cause it'd be unpopular with the Twits.

For some masochistic reason I read the comments to see if it got around to blaming cyclists eventually. Good old Journal keyboard warriors - they never disappoint!

Walk the kids to school every morning (about 10 minutes total) and count about 10-15 people on their phones in their cars. Email the local Garda station to see if they would walk past the school in the morning to make a killing in fines. They said they drive past all the time and never see anyone on their phones. Replied asking if they would consider walking or cycling? No response. Since the email I saw two Garda in a van having the craic while the person two cars ahead was holding their phone scrolling and people driving past them with the phone held in front of their face, the two were too busy laughing and chatting to notice (or care). It is madness, and its the parents at it. In front of the school with kids everywhere, two lanes of traffic, a row of parked cars and the footpath so narrow two people can barely pass each other. It is only a matter of time before there is a totally preventable serious injury.

Almost every school in the country. Garda refuse to enforce the parking or anything near schools/cemeteries/churches/residential areas, as it is not popular

https://www.thejournal.ie/court-collision-cyclist-dangerous-driving-6666024-Apr2025/

But cyclists breaking red lights are the problem

Outside our primary school in Dublin suburbs we have parking chaos in the mornings. People blocking driveways etc and if the owner of the house says anything they have been shouted and swore at! So much so the principal on many occasions has emailed all the parents to ask them to stop. Incredible stuff. People really are entitled arseholes when they get behind the wheel of a car.

"Mr Lynn submitted to the court that his client “panicked as a very young person”, did the wrong thing then but has been trying to do positive since then."

Doing positive since then by: "He has two previous convictions, which post-date this incident, for road traffic offences." It's incredibly difficult to get a driving conviction given the lack of enforcement but this individual has picked up 3 that we know of in 4 years? Why aren't such pleas and mitigating statements thrown out given one conviction may be a lapse in judgement or carelessness but any additions show a lack of conscience at best.

Councils are now more pliable to releasing data from those radar advisory speed signs. This is the R336 west along the coast from Galway

Worst traffic congested spot in the country 😢 😥

The Journal says: A six-year-old girl who was cycling her bike was killed this afternoon in a collision involving a heavy goods vehicle in Galway. https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0405/1506072-galway-fatal-road/

Very sad.

City Council have only in the last few years changed the layout of that junction at Sandyvale by installing on road cycle lane inbound and a YELLOW hatched box. Did not change the geometry of the Sandyvale entrance though.

The other day I had to roar at a woman to stop before she reversed onto the footpath and over a child. She was within half a metre of hitting the child.

She’s not denying she offended but is saying that the exact nature of the offence wasn’t stipulated. Whether she has an argument or not remains to be seen