I’ve noticed an interesting difference between driving and biking.

When you are driving, you can’t wait to stop. Always looking for faster routes, shortcuts and ways to get out of your car quicker.

On a bike it’s exactly the opposite. We often find ourselves taking the long route just for fun.

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland’s far-right movement will emerge from the ‘breakfast roll-atariat’ Fuel protests have seen big wheels driven over democratic norms

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland’s far-right movement will emerge from the ‘breakfast roll-atariat’

Illustration from an overhead perspective of a rabbit riding a bicycle on a street.

Bike Rabbit

🎨 Michael Sowa

Just spent the day at Dunsany Castle to see the rewilding project and it is gorgeous. Two beautiful kites circling above.

What did a changing climate look like in Ireland in 2025?

The Council’s report highlights a year marked by record wind, dry spells, drought pressure and heavy rainfall.

See the year at a glance in 'Our Changing Climate' at shorturl.at/ORv9s

Trash to treasure: The Irish ecopreneurs upcycling waste into food, furniture and more Our innovators are discovering novel uses for materials that would otherwise end up in landfill, and developing products to replace single-use plastics

Love these stories. Such cool and useful ideas. Genuinely wish I had more innovation/engineering skills.

Trash to treasure: The Irish ecopreneurs upcycling waste into food, furniture and more

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature

I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more

Image of three books by C Toibin, R Hession and J Banville

Obviously I went to browse in @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social NOT needing any more books in my house 🤷‍♀️ But I really really love the @dublincityoflit.bsky.social One Dublin One Book initiative and once you start it's impossible to stop at one...
May need some German books to intersperse though.

Feeling very lucky that I get to enjoy mini starling murmurations above my house every evening before they all drop into a neighbour's tree!

Dublin Commuter Coalition; calls on Government to prioritise emergency funding In the wake of President Trump’s latest escapade of global chaos, Government are predictably about to cut taxes on fossil fuels amidst the rising cost of living. Rather than ignoring our obligations…

Government must prioritise sustainable transport in any emergency relief funding

The solution to the rising cost of oil will never be tax reduction. It’s better cycling infrastructure, more frequent & reliable public transport and Work from Home measures

(c)Mordillo

Illustration (possibly a photo-illustration) of a woman riding a bicycle down a hillside with her legs upraised off the pedals. There's a cherub in the tree above her.

Happy Spring, northern hemisphere bicycle friends!

Woman coasting down a hill in springtime
1899

Yes, and maybe a German thing? My dad still proudly keeps a guest book for visitors to the house and we all have 'Poesiealbums' where, as kids, we got our friends to write us poems & messages. Hope you enjoyed Berlin & Leipzig.

AS BAD AS EACH OTHER

The Strait of Hormuz
is much in the nuz.
How I wish it were not –
I’d regime change the lot.

Wow. If only Irish politicians would make a speech like this.

From Connolly and Pearse to the hunger strikers and Mary Robinson. Amazing.

#SpeirGorm #FreePalestine

A few of us from Dublin Friends of the Earth (alongside amazing Fridays for Future regulars) protesting against the government further abdicating its climate obligations with the Private Wires Bill.

Very grateful for the magnolia in my garden this time of year.

The Government is trying to further abdicate its climate obligations with the Private Wires Bill

www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/28-civi...

Protest Friday to demand the Government reinstates the moratorium on data centres and stops the big tech power grab!

1pm Friday 13 March outside the Dáil

Submitted comments now. Can't wait to see College Green pedestrianised and greened and cycle there for a coffee!!!

Excellent! So let's build those lanes quickly and aim for another big % increase!!!! 🚲🚴🚲

A picture of a woman standing next to steel bollards of children in blue and black school clothing

Are these steel bollards of children creepy, yes.

Are they doing their job, also yes.

As always. The children are the front line in pedestrianized safety.

Chuck Feeney, the billionaire who gave Ireland $1.93bn, was the opposite of Trump Atlantic Philanthropies made 1,616 grants to the island of Ireland totalling $1.93 billion. Its departure left a void that has been hard to fill

I am so angry at the current billionnaires and ultra-rich that this was a nice antidote to read. My first job was with an NGO supported by Atlantic Philanthropies. That funding made a real difference. And nice to know he is laid to rest nearby in Glasnevin.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Most fruit in Ireland is sad. Even just coming back from Germany after summer hols I always fall into fruit-related depression.

Oh crap. Pardon my French.

Enjoyed filling this in - since it asks about things I care about, like greening the city, and arts, and how I feel about cycling here! 🌳🎭🚴

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Lovely morning. Blue sky and yellow daffodils outside my window; blue skies and gold medals for Germany on the telly 🙂