No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

A bag of what 18-6-12, pasture sward, urea. Get it out ASAP as we could have a long dryy spell

Toronto is a great town. Spent a few days there 10 years ago. Big underground city there too for the winter. We had grub in the tower beside the stadium in a revolving restaurant. That was cool. Few nice islands there too where you get a little ferry across to. Lots of good spots for pints. Niagara falls is only 90 minutes outside the city too if ya were interested

Ah, there's always one.

It reminds me of getting a taxi at 5am to Busáras to catch a bus to Donegal to pick up a car. The driver was the usual anti cyclist, anti foreigner type, so Deliveroo riders were a red rag to a bull. He spent the whole journey obsessing about them not having lights or high vis.

Eventually he spotted one and triumphantly shouted, "Look at him! You can't see him!"

Sorry, I didn't realise you were saying you came across 20 cyclists all dressed in black with no lights. That would certainly be unusual, the club might want to reconsider their club colours.

That said, the majority of cyclist fatalities and serious collisions occur in daylight and in good visibility, when cyclists are often wearing high visibility clothing so the problem is usually the driver of the car or vehicle that hits them.

I'm impressed at how many hard to see cyclists you're seeing. Where do you live?

And you're 100% right about the lights. They're so cheap, light and powerful, they strap to the bike with rubber clips. I remember the days of dynamos and massive lights with heavy batteries that clamped to the bike. When they fell off they smashed to pieces. One of my kids has a back light that senses braking and flashes like a brake light. He got it in Lidl for under €12.

Overall, cyclists don't cause problems or hold ups on the roads.

"Overall, cyclists don't cause problems or hold ups on the roads."

I grew up in NCD and every Sunday morning was a nightmare when driving. Groups of cyclists, cycling three or four abreast and they couldn't give a fiddlers feck who or what was behind them. People give out about us farmers slowing traffic when we are on the roads with tractors but most will pull in when they can/safe to do so and allow traffic to pass - IMO cyclists don't afford other road users the same opportunity.

Don't get me started if you came across the same cyclists when out hacking - fooking townies.

I'm not a cyclist myself, I used to commute but now I'm freelancing so back in the car. Cyclists, of all road users, probably cause the least congestion. I've never been held up for more than a few minutes by cyclists, but I've spent hours sitting in motor traffic. A bicycle doesn't create a traffic jam, cars do.

What sector of society do you think held up more traffic on the nations roads this year more than any other?

TBH, I don't know but your asking the question so I suppose the three/four abreast cyclist that I used to come across ain't in the parameters.