"Over an 18 year period, someone who cycles to work has nearly 50% less chance of dying from *anything* than someone who drives"...
including being knocked off by a motorist (based on UK census data). Passive travel is bad for your life expectancy and pollution inside the car is worse than outside.
a chart showing various oil scenarios and actual oil demand aligning to the higher oil consumption ones
If the world had followed ambitious climate scenarios, global oil demand would be at least 20% lower than it is today - about the same volume of oil that flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
Could we be looking at the future of protests in Ireland?
"Politics would become more acrimonious, personalised, bitter, accusatory, populist and volatile."
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Vehicles parked in front of Dublin’s GPO with a stack of Garda 'No parking' traffic cones in the foreground.
No parking
I'm sure the Gardaí are going to stand back for 5 days to allow this individual make their point and then have the Gov arrange meetings to better understand their demands.
Between 2020 and July 16, 2025, DAFM has been allocated a total of €366 million in carbon tax funding. This money has gone directly to farmers through ACRES agri-env schemes, helping to keep many small and marginal farms viable.
www.agriland.ie/farming-news...
Blocking O'Connell Bridge almost exclusively impacts public transport.
"As the public gathering moved towards Dublin Port Tunnel this afternoon [04 Oct] a Garda cordon was established to prevent a protest blocking the Port Tunnel in order to maintain traffic movement through key infrastructure (Dublin Port Tunnel and the M50)."
Thinking this evening about the Garda response to this protest versus the response to today's protests www.garda.ie/en/about-us/...
Is a military coup possible in the USA? The political system seems incapable of removing him.
Screenshot of Irish Times website juxtaposing live feeds about fuel protests in Dublin with Trump's threat that a whole civilisation will die tonight.
Irish protests seem tone deaf considering what's happening globally.
“Since cars have killed the city, we need faster cars to escape on superhighways to suburbs that are even farther away. What an impeccable circular argument: give us more cars so that we can escape the destruction caused by cars.”
Written in 1973, when the destruction was just beginning.
“Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia, a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer's, a 40% lower risk of young-onset dementia (before the age of 65), and a 17% lower risk of late-onset dementia.”
Getting around a bike more often could reduce dementia risk.
Is it possible that the pub installed that gate?
Me in Spain: a cheerful ¡Adiós!
They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨
London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
The queue of helicopters taking people to the Galway races
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I wish we could have cycle paths like this between villages here in the UK. Often only a few miles away but only dangerous roads with no pavements between them. Villages have become islands of social isolation where teenagers can’t be independent and those that don’t drive are trapped.
Henry Ford, who perhaps did more than anyone else to inflict cars upon the world, had a private train carriage to travel in www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog....
“Greenland is not a product, it is a people.”
Research shows that motorists break traffic laws a lot more oftten than cyclists www.bicycling.com/news/a464437...
Judge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test
A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…
I have no idea if the USA will invade Greenland or not, but even making credible threats to do so has fundamentally shifted their relationship with Europe.
Cycled from Dublin city centre to Howth and back this afternoon. Wondering if it did me more harm than good given how poor the air quality was.
