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Cian Ginty

7 months

Recycling -- especially mixed recycling -- is a bit of a lie. It's in a way better than nothing but so far away from where we need to be and the system gets in the way of getting where we need to be. The plastics, packaging and waste industries have made sure of that.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

The weather probably isn’t good enough for an outdoor pool in Dublin etc etc etc. Meanwhile, @MayoCoCo ’s fantastic Belmullet Tidal Pool is free to use and has lifeguards on duty for most of the day during the Summer:

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@cianginty

3 years

Anybody in Ballina missing a short red dog? He keeps coming into the new Lild! Staff have tried to put him out a few times now:

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@cianginty

2 years

That the body of a man can be found in a derelict house two decades after he died shows how much of an issue Ireland has with derelict houses.

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@cianginty

2 years

An English man living in Mallow is complaining on Irish radio that nobody is being consulted about who's coming here. He's protesting against modular housing for refugees. You couldn't make this up.

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@cianginty

1 year

I keep seeing people post the great Enoch Burke floats as single posts... here's a thread of them...

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@silverskull21

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Headford parade with a mighty Enoch Burke float! 🤣

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1 year

Ireland’s first Dutch-style roundabout opened in Dublin 15

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@cianginty

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@lindayaX

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A Message to X Users

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@cianginty

1 year

This 05:05 train from Ballina to Dublin is saving me having to go up to Dublin the night before — thanks to anybody involved in making in happen. Surprising amount of people using this new service already. Bonus: The roads were very quiet cycling to the station:

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

€30 for a adult and child ticket from Ballina to Castlebar is maybe the reason the bus is more than half empty? This is a trip to our local hospital. In Co Dublin you’d travel further and you could do the trip over and over again, and not pay more than €10.80* a day.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

10 months

To the people who give out about steel bollards on footpaths -- I'd prefer this to happen to a bollard and not my children who were walking on this footpath after this happened: @WorldBollard -- good job!

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@cianginty

2 years

Headline: "Eamon Ryan secures world peace" Half of Twitter: "I don't like that because Ryan did it" Transport is my area and I have written how he should be doing more and where he's messing up. But I'll never get over the unreal personal abuse for the man here.

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@cianginty

2 months

If I was "caught" on Luas with an active TFI 90 Minute Fare on my Leap card, I'd let @Luas bring me to court -- there's a high chance a Judge would tell them to cop on. For the record, I always tag on. I don't always tag off between modes or while using TFI 90. It's pointless.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

11 months

Ireland's largest bus and coach station could probably do with a roof and basic things like loos, and staff so passengers aren't depending on drivers for info maybe even tickets so passengers aren't relying on drivers with that too. @DublinAirport @TFIupdates

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@cianginty

2 years

This isn’t rural —it’s sprawl:

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@cianginty

1 month

Why would Gardaí bother when €5k and a 2 year ban is what McGregor gets when a Garda witnesses him massively speeding, running a red light, overtaking on the left repeatedly, illegally using a bus lane and weaving erratically at high speed?...

McGregor given suspended sentence for driving offences

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has been convicted of road traffic offences and disqualified from driving for two years after what the judge described in court today as "an appalling series...

www.rte.ie

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

My mother — a true lady who advocated for her children — died on Saturday and was buried yesterday. She was sick but died suddenly. My mother’s death was made extra hard due to my sons and wife having Covid, and the behaviour of my estranged father towards myself & two brothers.

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@cianginty

9 months

“A friend who was going to the town to get a bag of chips was stopped and was asked for his passport." “It sounds quite ridiculous but it could be quite a frightening thing for people with men standing on the road, stopping cars and shining torches"

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

Just saying: 1.38 is the average number of children per family in Ireland in 2021. 45% is the estimated new cars sales which were SUVs in Ireland in 2021.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

1 year

Two stories from Portlaoise District Court, with the same Judge: Cannabis with a value of €20 gets you three months in jail, but speeding at 174km/h doesn't even get you a disqualification:

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@cianginty

9 months

Both of these are out of place with the architecture of St Stephen's Green. You're just used to the one that's there. This is a hill I will die on.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

Good article on excessive road signage in Dublin… I’ll have to finish it tomorrow but good read for any night owls who are into anti-clutter / urbanism / traffic and transport etc:

40 pictures of Dublin's street sign obsession

Dublin is covered in traffic signs that simply aren't needed. Where has this obsession with excessive street signage come from?

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

1 year

What was anybody thinking allowing the swim to go ahead?

RTÉ News

@rtenews

1 year

Investigations are under way after two men died while taking part in an Ironman event in Youghal, Co Cork. Organisers had earlier advised participants of a change to the distance due to conditions at the start of the race |

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

I’m not a Green Party member and have no plan to join any party… but some people who claim to care about clean air and climate action need to snap out of it. The stick the Greens are getting over the solid fuel ban isn’t another opportunity to dump on them unless… (1/3)

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

5 months

These look absolutely ridiculous, means that cable is narrowing the footpath and should in no way be entertained by authorities:

Adrian Weckler

@adrianweckler

5 months

Starting to see this EV charger setup on some driveway-less city streets.

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@cianginty

1 month

It's amazing how many Irish journalists get sucked into UK-style culture war issues. A huge factor isn't just the Irish journalism mindset but how they consume UK media at a far higher rate than an average Irish person. But the persecution act when corrected seems very Irish.

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@cianginty

1 year

SUVs are proven to endanger children more but the people buying big cars to compensate for something or show off think it's about jealousy... 🥱

Brian Ward

@brianwardirl

1 year

@Independent_ie The anti SUV campaign is just another thinly veiled attempt for a cohort of jealous, limited individuals to stop people enjoying the fruits of their labour. The entire tax system for cars in Ireland illustrates this attitude.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

But, hey, remember to focus your hate on refugees, people on job seekers and others... 1% of Irish population owns a quarter of the wealth, claims Oxfam report

1% of Irish population owns 27% of the wealth - Oxfam

The wealthiest 1% of Irish society now owns more than a quarter of the country's wealth or €232 billion, a new report from Oxfam claims.

www.rte.ie

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@cianginty

2 years

Will @sligococo please stop allowing cars on the beach in Enniscrone —as a parent it’s sickening to see after recent events in the town.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

4 years

Welcome to my Ted Talk: The mass overuse of cars and having a built environment designed around cars is one of the largest socially liberal blind spots. The health, social, economic and environmental impacts of this broken system in Ireland are vastly underestimated by most.

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@cianginty

2 years

Imagine telling a TD at an Oireachtas committee: “Where do you think you are?” Stunning stuff:

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@neasa_neasa

2 years

'Where do you think you are?' Hmmmm. A frustrating session with the Mental Health Commission at the Disability Matters committee this morning. The residents of Owennacurra deserve more clarity on steps the Mental Health Commission is taking on behalf of the residents 1/2

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@cianginty

9 months

Should I do a thread on why people complaining about the deposit return scheme are wrong?

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@cianginty

3 years

If there was a deposit return scheme for cans and bottles (including glass bottles), the outdoor littering overall would be massively reduced — from public spaces to just along the side of roads.

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@cianginty

1 year

I'm still flabbergasted by the amount of people who think that the rise in SUVs from a small percentage of the market to over 50% of new sales was down to personal choice. It took years of marketing, and industry planning for production to switch towards SUVs.

Cian Ginty

@cianginty

1 year

SUVs are proven to endanger children more but the people buying big cars to compensate for something or show off think it's about jealousy... 🥱

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@cianginty

10 months

Are the far right a problem yet?

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@adrianweckler

10 months

Parnell Street right now

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@cianginty

6 months

Oh, look, just a deposit return scheme machine working just as designed again...

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@cianginty

2 months

"No go area"

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@cianginty

1 year

I know I'll annoy a lot of people with this, but it's possible to think both of these are true: (1) That posting historical rail maps of Ireland is nostalgic thinking that doesn't account for many being low-quality, low-frequency lines. (2) The 2050 plan isn't good enough

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@cianginty

3 years

Why aren’t the CMO and media commentators loosing the plot over this type of thing? It’s more riskier than any young ones drinking around South William Street.

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@NoonanJoe

3 years

Looks a bit too enclosed for comfort.

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@cianginty

9 months

This guy is so wrong on nearly everything -- Ireland has one of the lowest ranges of social insurance in Europe...

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@cianginty

7 months

Ok, about that Deposit Return Scheme thread 🧵 I promised...or more like threatened... I know some people will be annoyed but... Now a lot of the answers to the bog standard things re @returnireland are answered, I'm going to start my less conventional thread about it..

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@cianginty

2 months

Has business in Utrecht city centre suffered after decades of radically reducing space and priority for cars? Hell no. When some see images of Utrecht they say yeah but what about beyond bars/cafes? The place is jammed packed with shops from small ones to international chains.

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@cianginty

1 year

Fionnan Sheahan on @TonightVMTV getting more worked up about satire from ‘Spice Bag’ than he probably ever will about homelessness: (Re sharing here in case you don’t want to interact with the account that tweeted it first)

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@cianginty

9 months

Good article, the one thing I'd add is that capacity in as far as Fatima could be increased dramatically by adding a branch to St Stephen's Green. And this isn't Crayon stuff from an amateur planner like me, it's in TII's own documents it's just strangely never talked about.

Dublin Inquirer

@DublinInquirer

9 months

As overcrowding puts some passengers off the Luas, the NTA says plans are afoot to address the problem. But because the Luas shares city streets with other road users, there are limits to what can be done to expand capacity.

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@cianginty

5 months

I'm not an expert on uniting Ireland, but with his columnist hat on, John Fitzgerald seems to be an expert on everything, including my area of expertise, transport. And he seems to fit very well into the old adage of seeing the cost of everything and the value of nothing...

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@rtenews

5 months

A united Ireland would cost €20 billion every year for 20 years, a new study suggests

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@cianginty

1 year

That's a lot of trucks off the road:

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@cianginty

2 years

Ahh, so, @dublinbusnews started offering canal services…

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@cianginty

4 months

Some say damaged bottles you pick up off the road near your house won't work in the @returnireland machines, but they mostly work. This has 3 advantages (1) I'm not putting the bottles and cans from filly feckers into my own bin and paying for it, (2) I get paid for it, and...

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@cianginty

6 months

The most amazing thing about SUV defenders is how nearly without fail they talk about "need" as if the car market didn't switch to over half of new car sales to SUVs because of an industrial plan focused on profit and disregarding danger and the environmental impact.

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@cianginty

10 months

"You'll be seen anyway" says a man coming out of Lidl after he looks at my bike with double lights front and back. I'm standing here outside Lidl to let the adrenal wear off after I had to slam on my brakes because a driver looked but failed to see me at the roundabout.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

7 months

It's your choice Dubliners, commuters and visitors... Dubliners: Do you want to side with a pack of liars or have a better city? It's your choice

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

This is the same council meeting covered in two very different ways. Journalists and editors are humans. We aren't robots and claims of "just reporting the facts" dismisses a huge amount of academic research on biases, the choices of focus/angle of a story.

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@cianginty

4 months

This is scandalous coverage by RTE -- you don't need the Garda statement for some kind of balance when the protesters/rioters and their friends put so many videos which shows that the Public Order Unit were continuously giving warnings:

Upfront with Katie Hannon

@RTEUpfront

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“They gave no prior knowledge and it was like charge and bash and that’s what happened.” Eye witness Aoife tells Katie Hannon what happened at the Trudder House protest. #RTEUpfront

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

3 years

Just one more ring road will fix it:

New Galway Ring Road and Bridge

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@cianginty

2 years

It’s 2023. We’re supposed to be taking climate action seriously… why isn’t @rte ? Why is @DermotBannon pushing stoves in houses when the clients don’t even want one? #RoomToImprove

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@cianginty

1 year

On transport, the Greens have progressed: -- 20% fare reduction and 50% for students -- Shift of funding from roads to public transport -- BusConnects, rail, Connecting Ireland etc. If you're ranting re them being in Govt for "bike lanes" it says more about you than them...

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@cianginty

8 months

There's research showing darker cars end up in more collisions and making hands-free calls while driving is nearly as distracting as holding a phone. We don't talk about these because (1) the motoring industry spent a lot of money to distract from them and (2) "motonormativity".

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@cianginty

1 year

It would be interesting to see @ExtinctRebelsIE block a road and see if there’s a different policing response: Engagement needed in Clare, not blockades - Taoiseach via @rte

Engagement needed in Clare, not blockades - Taoiseach

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that he did not believe that it was necessary for protesters to block access to a hotel that is being used to house asylum seekers in Co Clare.

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@cianginty

1 year

The Garda was mainly telling him to stop harassing families going into the Disney story. One of these people is a lawyer (in another jurisdiction). With basic Google skills it takes 2 seconds to find out he was referring to Section 7 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 94

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@cianginty

4 months

Is Ballina saying no to disabilities and housing?

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@cianginty

1 year

I have to say, at least when Rory makes a fool out of himself, he does it fantastically -- RTE used an image of a street that's always car-free in the hours of the car-free event yesterday:

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

3 years

NY Times, The Guardian, EuroNews, and RTÉ News — spot the odd one out / aka the wishful thinking / climate change denial. This is the stuff from 10-20 years ago — the link between climate change and making extreme weather more extreme and more frequent is now established.

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@cianginty

4 months

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”

Billy Hann

@CEO_DublinBus

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The biggest barrier to faster and more reliable bus services is the dominance of the private car in Dublin. We need the NTA/DCC traffic plan implemented in full. I’m looking forward to updating the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport today. 👇

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@cianginty

2 months

Reporters who live in Dublin would lap up anything about rural Ireland. Turf is a poor fuel, and, in terms of the vast majority of houses, it hasn't been a "staple in the Irish household" for a very long time. People selling turf of course will want to sell that image.

Henry McKean

@HenryMcKean

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Climate Change Advisory Council want people to ditch the open fire. Rural Ireland want the cosy fire to remain in the home with turfcutting remaining a staple in the Irish household. We visit a bog on the Galway Roscommon border, beside the N60 road. @NTBreakfast @NewstalkFM now

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@cianginty

2 years

@jimbonones @workmansflopera @TonightVMTV Errr “another reaaon landlords are leaving”, how many landlords don’t bother to look up the basics of the laws of renting?

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@cianginty

1 year

How can any large Irish company still have this problem?

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@unaeb

1 year

But @AerLingus the name on my passport has a fada...! #Gaeilge #Ourfada #SnaG23

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@cianginty

1 month

It is a complete departure from reality to try to claim that @boucherhayes doesn't generally interview people -- including Government ministers -- robustly. This is one step away from the chants of "RTE are the virus"...

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I look forward to @rtenews 'robust' interviewing of government ministers and representatives.

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@cianginty

6 months

I was firmly #voteyesyes at the start but listened to people and am now #VoteYesNo . If the Government was serious they'd be ratifying the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, not still working on a pathway there some time in the future.

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@cianginty

2 years

Hi @DCU , can you please explain how plastic grass is compatible with sustainability commitments?

Feljin Jose

@Feljin_J

2 years

There are very few things I hate more than plastic grass. 🤢 At least it replaced paving. @DCU

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@cianginty

1 year

@conor_pope @finn_mcredmond It's really not and there are way too many comfortable home owners thinking things are grand.

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@cianginty

5 months

I watched a toddler using one of the machines today (he was being held up by one of his parents), but yet the amount of grown men, and it's mainly men who are crying about the scheme...

Cormac Moore

@TheCormacMoore

5 months

Here's how to easily get your money back from the really simple to use Deposit Return Scheme.♻️💶 #Ireland #depositreturnscheme

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@cianginty

5 months

I'll die on this hill: Mixed recycling isn't working and cannot be fixed. Everybody needs to stop lapping up oil and packaging industry propaganda. The Deposit Return Scheme is bog standard and mild. The radical action we need to take regarding waste would cause a rebellion.

Cian Ginty

@cianginty

6 months

Recycling is a lie that makes you feel good: ‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

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@cianginty

2 years

To the people reading this who don't like his policies or politics: Where do you think this kind of childish nonsense ends? With your preferred politicians gaining power? It doesn't work like that. You're part of the problem if you cannot sell your ideas without personal attacks.

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@cianginty

1 year

If cyclists don't use a cycle lane, there's a good reason for it via @irishcycle

If cyclists don’t use a cycle lane, there’s a good reason for it

Comment & Analysis: Are you an annoyed motorist who thinks cyclists should have to use cycle lanes? If you want cyclists to use cycle lanes, stop talking rubbish and start supporting higher-qua…

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@cianginty

5 years

Unless the economy tanks, the N7 will be full again at peak times within around 2 years, possibly nearly straight away, and it will likely also push traffic faster towards the M50, snarling up traffic there too:

Charlie Flanagan

@CharlieFlanagan

5 years

M7 upgrade will be a great relief for the thousands of hardworking commuters from my Constituency to the capital - myself included.

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@cianginty

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Southsiders finally get to experience just a glimpse of why Northsiders in flightpaths complain...

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@cianginty

3 years

I don’t know which is worse: Industry lobbying by the IDA or Eirgrid giving into them — a moratorium on data centres around Dublin makes perfect sense and rowing back on it so quickly because of lobbying isn’t on:

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@cianginty

2 years

The air quality in Ballina at the moment is chronic.

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@cianginty

2 years

Don't you just hate people who give others a bad name? Like the 93% of motorists who were found to be speeding on uncongested roads at weekdays. The law-abiding motorists -- all 7% of them -- must be fuming at the bad ones.

78% of motorists found to be speeding on uncongested 50km/h roads, and 93% at weekends

A new approach to the Road Safety Authority’s annual ‘free speed’ surveys has found that far higher percentage of motorists are speeding in uncongested conditions than previously …

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@cianginty

8 months

The scars of dealing with this in why people over 40 keep so many cables

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Kids these days have no idea what is pioneers went through

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@cianginty

2 years

For anybody living in an Irish town, the item on smokey coal on @RTE_PrimeTime should be mandatory watching. For health alone (never mind about the environment) all coal should be phased long ago, so, it’s so frustrating to see people still unwilling to accept a smokey coal ban.

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@cianginty

2 years

We were told Airbnb wasn't an issue, yet we can see things like this:

Gearóid Kearney

@gearoid___

2 years

🏡There are only 31 Properties to Rent in the whole of Kerry on Daft currently. 🏡 On Airbnb, there are 1,959.🏡 I know too many people my age in Kerry that are living at home due to rent prices and the cost of houses. Many of them are considering leaving Ireland this year.

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@cianginty

2 years

…you don’t actually care about clean air and climate action. Should there be more focus on helping people change? Sure there should be, but the ranting some of you are involved in is a distraction to that discussion. Have you read what air quality experts have said? (2/3)

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@cianginty

2 years

Also: The subsection who want to take down capitalism before there’s any climate action… is your revolution going to start within any of the timelines outlined by IPCC? (3/3)

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@cianginty

1 year

Walking around with a pram as our main form of transport when my first son was born likely "radicalised" me and opened my eyes more than cycling has. The condition -- and sometimes lack of -- footpaths, drop kerbs and crossing in our towns and cities is shocking.

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The kid's getting his first publishing deal too.

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@cianginty

2 months

Car users account for only 24% of Dublin City Centre spending, but lobby group uses misleading claim seeking to halt traffic plan via @IrishCycle

Car users account for only 24% of Dublin City Centre spending, but lobby group uses misleading...

— Sustainable transport users accounted for 75% of city centre spending in 2022 report referred to by lobby group.– Group heavily linked to car parks lobbies councillors ahead of briefi…

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

6 months

So, if climate activists got into tractors and did this, what would the police reaction be?

James Kanter

@jameskanter

6 months

Here is where #farmers storm the EU area at Maalbeek near EU HQ. "It looks like civil war" say EU officials as tractors overwhelm police. #FarmerProtest2024 #FarmersProtest2024

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

Minister @EamonRyan has become a hate figure for many, largely because it suits the agenda of people who don't want a more sustainable future. But the way his communications are handled cannot help.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

6 months

Do Dubliners really call baguettes "French sticks"?

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

11 days

Nobody has been denied access to the city -- access has been maintained to all car parks. And the Port Tunnel is not the only route available. This is "car brain" at work:

Brendan Ogle

@OrielCelt

12 days

@MissusVee Absolute joke. They build a port tunnel to keep traffic out of the city then they deny me access to it and make me drive through it to get home. City is a joke.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

1 year

Pitch for a game: Sim City 4 with realistic parking needs for the planning and the transport network choices made by the player.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

1 year

“Fun fact: SIM City was forced to pretend that all parking lots were underground because the game would be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.” Really boring like too many real cities & suburbs? V/ @devonzuegel #ThePowerOfParking

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

2 years

It’s madness that these advertisements are allowed at all under the guise of being pay phones, but especially when it means footpaths are narrowed like this:

Feljin Jose

@Feljin_J

2 years

For example, this unit on Abbey Street is facing the wrong way. According to the site layout plan, the advertising should face eastwards away from the Luas stop. Although, that would result in a lot fewer people seeing the ad. Easy mistake.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

1 year

Some people are under the mistaken view that I just love cycling and that's it. You can love more than one thing at once? Cycling isn't going to get jealous that I also love public transport and am passionate about making places walkable too. I'm a sustainable transport nerd.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

1 year

Fair play to anybody who can afford to travel from Ireland overland to mainland Europe. -- Sail and Rail and Eurostar/Dutch Flyer generally cost at least twice the cost of flying. -- Plus: On the way back it will often require an extra hotel night. I've had people on here...

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

3 months

Honest to god, did @mhealyrae not have even a drop of a notion of who @RoisinGarvey is before going head-to-head with her? The Healy Raes are populists and popular, but the media needs to stop treating rural Ireland as a monochrome.

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@think_or_swim

3 months

Sterling performance by @RoisinGarvey in cutting through MHR’s populist spiel with a large helping of facts on @RTE_PrimeTime last night. Greens really have come out swinging.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

1 year

A group of businesses and residents in Dundrum who want to maintain higher car use watched their traffic 'expert' compare @greenparty_ie leader @EamonRyan to the Nazi's Gestapo. No apology has been forthcoming since and most of the media...

Pro-high car use meeting in Dundrum ends with Gestapo jibe left unchallenged

— Attendees told of “outsiders” making decisions about Dundrum which has been “destroyed”. Long-read / Comment & Analysis: ‘We support cycling but…’ and R…

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

4 years

Come on @simoncoveney — stop talking rubbish on @RTERadio1 — the St Patrick’s Days parades and pubs mostly closed because of social and polictal pressure, not just medical advise, @LeoVaradkar was defending not closing restaurants when international advise was to close such.

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

3 years

“Must get in front” syndrome — where motorists feel they need to pass out people on bicycles regardless of road conditions — is something that needs to be tackled by the @RSAIreland and @GardaTraffic in driver training level and in safety campaigns...

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

27 days

If you live or own a house close to being over a planned metro line, is that a conflict of interest you should disclose while writing a large number of newspaper articles against the project?

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

3 months

PBP hate the Greens so much that some of their members are sounding like the anti-cycling lads on Facebook. "You cannot expect everyone to cycle"? FFS, seiousely? And claiming a sustainable transport and greening project does nothing for the environment and biodiversity?

Eoghan 🇵🇸

@astro_coffee

3 months

PBP voted against a modal filter that would have just pushed more traffic on to a further up road & fought for an accessibility assessment. You can't expect everyone to cycle - how many disabled and elderly people could take a bike for their groceries and hospital appointments?

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Cian Ginty

@cianginty

4 years

Spotted an old man finding it hard to cross a street in Ballina. Motorists kept going as if he wasn’t there. At first, I didn’t take it in what was happening, it’s so normalised. Then a wonderful lady on a bicycle stopped beside him to use her bike as barrier to stop cars. Hero!

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