Meanwhile on the Roads...

the killing is an accident https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41645515.html or it appears it is a solo crash https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2025/0604/1516760-road-collision-cork/

Is it just me or are the IT paywalling more and more articles these days? It seems that way over 50% (probably excluding current news items) are now subscriber only. I'm practically guaranteed that'll be the case for anything from them that appears in the Google news-feed.

I just can't bring myself to subscribe as I think the standard of journalism there has gone down the toilet over the past 20-odd years.

(NB: not having a dig at you Seth for posting - just a general comment)

Just so people are clear, this is also an access road to a large housing development, it's not quite like a grade separated motorway slip.

And for more context, the big drama about cycling on the N25 a few years ago was because the local authority are/were pushing for NTA money to allow them to develop the lands on the N25 corridor. They need a big grade separated interchange at around milebush (the old amgen site) and it's very expensive, so they dressed it all up as a "safety" measure while giving cyclists a circuitous PFO route. The greenway under construction now should provide a pretty good direct route in future.

Just had a look at the last part of the slip (after Fota Rock) and it looks terrifying. Crash barriers on both sides, no hard shoulder and then the merging lane is even more dangerous:

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/06/05/shout-out-to-the-woman-who-trapped-me-in-my-car-in-tesco-car-park/

Shout out to the woman who trapped me in my car in Tesco car park

Thu Jun 05 2025 - 06:00

It finally happened. I saw a driver getting caught breaking a red light. Just when I had almost given up on any kind of policing of the decline in motorist behaviour, the flashes of an unmarked Garda car brought back a smidgen of hope.

mod note - no pasting of entire articles, this is copyright violation.

With all these medical emergencies, we're going to need to start medical screening for all drivers, similar to what is done for HGV drivers for a start.

Nobody is saying he drove deliberately into the house but it is a simple statement of fact that yes, he did indeed drive into the house. Why this causes consternation I don't know, and yes there may be mitigating circumstances like a medical episode, but that doesn't change the underlying fact.

If you're sitting in the seat with the ignition on and the vehicle is moving, you're "driving" according to the law.

Whether he was driving or not, his insurance company are going to have a tasty bill; the truck in photo was keeping first floor wall up and the roof.

Had the same happen me last year, but with me on the bike. I'd pulled across into the right turn filter lane on a busy, but not overly so, road. I was coasting so the oncoming car could pass before making the turn, when a pressed cardiac surgeon undertook and dived across ahead of me in front of the oncoming car.

It's an odd one as it was a Sunday, meaning Waterford hospital's cardiac unit would have actually been closed at the time, not being 24/7…..

The above lad continues his mental ways. I'm actually seeing him even more now. It's doing my head in.

He stopped ahead of me this morning to let some cars passed (which to be honest, was a miracle to see) but then blazing through the pedestrian lights once they changed.

This time however, I decided to take my phone out and snapped a photo. (can't see his face so I take it it's okay to post here)

If anyone recognises him and could tell him to cop the **** on before he kills someone it would be greatly appreciated.

After this photo was taken he immediately took off through the pedestrian lights ahead of him as they changed and nearly hit some pedestrians crossing from the right.

another one. RIP.

guy's probably been cycling the local roads for decades; what's changed is the amount, size and speed of the motor vehicles, but nothing a bit of hi-vis and a few appeals from the RSA can't fix…

And probably cycling all their lives