Restaurants shut down over toilet ‘overflowing with human waste’ and ‘breeding’ cockroaches “We continue to see cases where essential requirements, including effective cleaning, pest control, safe food handling practices, staff training and food-safety management www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Restaurants shut down over toilet ‘overflowing with human waste’ and ‘breeding’ cockroaches

Popular Dublin restaurant among 11 businesses served with closure orders last month, says food safety watchdog

irishtimes.com

Government have spent over a billion euro on fuel subsidies this year… yet have no room in the budget for new BusConnects phases, Luas expansions or Dart+ projects Opposition parties need to get their priorities straight

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 16h ago

Opposition parties have urged the Government to postpone plans to return fuel excise duty costs to their full price due to ongoing concerns over the cost-of living crisis

We don't have a badger problem. We have a dairy cow problem. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

"It is extremely clear that the way we currently manage our land is failing across the board – emissions, water quality, biodiversity, wealth distribution, food security." We need to fundamentally change how we manage our land and give a lot of it back to nature!

How Ireland’s land is used and why it has to change

Agriculture takes up 74 per cent of the country’s land

irishtimes.com

They are but cloaks & caps to hide the real reason for road & safety authorities failure to get to grips with the causes of road violence. Victim-blaming is easy.

Tom Flood@tomflood.bsky.social · 3d ago

The experts agree.

Just like the government drove us over the financial cliff in 2008, the 2026 government is driving us over the environmental cliff.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 4d ago

‘Then there was the casual, almost Muskian, manner in which minister Jack Chambers disbanded the climate division in the Department of Public Expenditure. In other words, the man holding the purse strings on big projects does not need any environmental inputs on their effects or improvement.’

Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

theguardian.com

‘Then there was the casual, almost Muskian, manner in which minister Jack Chambers disbanded the climate division in the Department of Public Expenditure. In other words, the man holding the purse strings on big projects does not need any environmental inputs on their effects or improvement.’

The great green retreat: Is this Government done with trying to save the planet?

From pausing the carbon tax to scrapping the Dublin Airport passenger cap, the Taoiseach insists Coalition’s ‘pragmatic’ approach is the way forward while the Greens argue ministers are ‘defunding the...

independent.ie

"The reason young people are riding their electric devices on the sidewalk is because it is not safe to ride them on the streets. The reason the streets are not safe is because of all the cars and trucks." (and increasingly, really bad driving habits) www.nsnews.com/opinion/opin...

Opinion: Cars are the biggest threat on the road, not kids on e-scooters

All the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users

nsnews.com

We went through Kilternan village & got lost on the new bypass to the Scalp. So many apartment & homes along the R117, raising the question about close access to public transport. Will there be increased car-dependency? [Yea, I know about the 44/Luas]

results not accidents.

Appealing to our better angels just isn't enough, apparently.

kanchan@kayehm.bsky.social · 6d ago

A UK study found that telling potential SUV buyers that those vehicles directly result in higher fatalities for pedestrians, cyclists and children had zero effect on their decision to buy them. What does work? Financial penalties: Increased fees, taxes, parking. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Does this level of law breaking by drivers not suggest that we need Garda operations such as this one on a 24/7 basis & not just at bank holidays? "Between the period of Thursday 30 July – Tuesday 4 August 2026, a total of 169 people were arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant,

Bike parking enabling 60 hospital staff to cycle to work is a win for the taxpayer Comment & Analysis: A cost of €85,000, or €1,416 per space, for a secure bicycle shed for the National Maternity Hospital is cheap compared to building car parking, which is estimated to cost €5,000 to €85,000 per…

Bike parking enabling 60 hospital staff to cycle to work is a win for the taxpayer

Comment & Analysis: A cost of €85,000, or €1,416 per space, for a secure bicycle shed for the National Maternity Hospital is cheap compared to building car parking, which is estimated to cost €5,000 to €85,000 per space in 2025. Added to this are the health benefits of staff cycling to work, including the general finding that active commutes mean fewer sick days (sources: …

irishcycle.com

'If it saves one life' is quite literally how the RSA justifies its various campaigns.

What a waste of money. Who benefits?

Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · last wk.

Surely we're only another couple of ads away from fixing the soaring number of road deaths? #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

This looks like a piece of local irrelevant, but it is the wedge end of the same refusal to countenance change (even positive change) which will see us miss all climate targets and all housing needs. They’re all the same problem. (But with complex different solutions).

Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Graiguecullen in Carlow

In one day: ⚠️ 760 drivers speeding ⚠️ 20 arrested for drink/drug driving ⚠️ 90 using a mobile phone ⚠️ 20 road deaths in July And we all know this is just the tip of the iceberg, when AGS are bothered to do a nationwide enforcement 'operation' But e-bikes, right. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Driver caught at 114km/h in 60km/h zone as gardaí detect 760 speeding offences

20 motorists were arrested on suspicion of drink or drug driving during the opening day of the nationwide operation

irishexaminer.com

I do a lot of my #everyday bike riding in this zone. It shows the location of incidents involving drivers & bike users using data from self-reporting to collisiontracker.ie/@dublininquirer plus an overlay of RSA & @garda.ie RTC databases. Government thinks that e-scooters are our road safety issue?

Last week we enjoyed a trip through the Liberties. This Friday we’re back to the centre of Dublin with #IBIKEBop to a soundtrack of summer tunes. What better way to start the Bank Holiday weekend? 🗓️31 July 2026 🕕6 PM 📍Parnell Sq N @ibikedublin.bsky.social #CriticalMass #CriticalMassDub

Link to podcast I did with @thejournal.ie this week on fires, why the hills are flammable when they should be wet and why we need to get serious about rewilding www.thejournal.ie/podcasts/66f...

Could nature itself help stop Ireland's wildfires?

Read, share and shape the news on TheJournal.ie - Breaking Irish and International News

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it's the "just lie back and enjoy it" of climate denial

Irish Cycling Campaign seeks candidates for its membership development officer Irish Cycling Campaign, via An Taisce, is seeking to employ a membership development officer. The closing date for receipt of applications is 23:59 on Friday, August 21, 2026....

Irish Cycling Campaign seeks candidates for its membership development officer

Irish Cycling Campaign, via An Taisce, is seeking to employ a membership development officer. The closing date for receipt of applications is 23:59 on Friday, August 21, 2026. Irish Cycling Campaign, an umbrella group of most of the larger cycling campaigns in Ireland, and An Taisce, an environmental charity, are two independent charities that say they work closely together. The reason for An Taisce's involvement in this role is that the cycling campaign uses it for its human resources structures.

irishcycle.com

Car adman turned road safety and sustainability advocate Tom Flood to speak in Dublin Tom Flood -- whose work used to include car advertising but who turned his skills to promoting road safety and mobility beyond cars -- is to speak at an event in Dublin on September 22nd....

Car adman turned road safety and sustainability advocate Tom Flood to speak in Dublin

Tom Flood -- whose work used to include car advertising but who turned his skills to promoting road safety and mobility beyond cars -- is to speak at an event in Dublin on September 22nd. The event's organisers point out that Flood is renowned for his efforts to reframe the narrative around road safety, road violence and active transportation. If you haven't heard of his name, you might have seen one of his images shared on social media, usually branded with his company's name, Rovélo Creative.

irishcycle.com

Active fires/hotspots across Ireland as of earlier today via NASA FIRMS surveillance. firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs...

“International evidence shows such mandates reduce uptake of active and shared transport, pushing trips back into cars and directly undermining Vision Zero, public health, and climate goals”

“Nanny state” hi-vis and helmet laws will discourage active travel, campaigners warn as Irish government signs off on new e-scooter rules amid claims illegal e-bikes causing “havoc” | electric bike re...

The Irish government’s decision to introduce a mandatory helmet and hi-vis law for e-scooter users has sparked concerns from active travel campaigners that “nanny state” interventions may only serve t...

road.cc

Really excited for this talk in Dublin. Details and registration are now available for anyone interested. Thanks to @jcfjustice.bsky.social @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @ibikedublin.bsky.social and many others for putting this together. www.eventbrite.ie/e/reframing-...

Reframing Road Safety | A public lecture by Tom Flood

Reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, road violence and active transportation. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

eventbrite.ie

Cars are inherently dangerous, yet nobody calls for banning them as they do e-scooters. Their speed, weight, numbers and shared use of public space make them far deadlier. The cumulative death toll over decades has been huge. Yet we tolerate car violence far more than newer forms of transport.

JCFJustice@jcfjustice.bsky.social · 2w ago

"This selective concern about road violence and the ambivalent and disjointed response to what is a national crisis is disturbing. At what point does ambivalence shift into something more malicious?" www.jcfj.ie/2026/07/29/a...

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

This fact can’t be repeated often enough for governments & road authorities. #ClimateCrisis

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w ago

“According to the finance ministry’s calculations, the cost to society of trips by car is close to one euro/km. On the other hand, every km travelled by bike yields societal gains of 60 euro cents thanks to the health benefits of cycling, transport efficiency gains, & lower infrastructure spending.”