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  Evidence from the Netherlands shows that bike-friendly streets increase retail sales by up to 25%. Regular cycling reduces risk of chronic illnesses by up to 27%, leading to fewer hospital admissions and lower medical costs. These benefits increase with age. Cycling infrastructure must be attractive, safe and inviting to older people. Dutch cycling prevents around 6,500 premature deaths each year, saving the healthcare system €3 billion annually. https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climat...

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  Sensible question from Irish Cycle magazine https://irishcycle.com/2026/07/20/please-make-it-make-sense-a-16-year-old-will-be-able-to-drive-a-tractor-or-90km-h-light-motorcycle-but-not-a-scooter-locked-to-20km-h/ #Cycling #Scooters #Tractors #Vespas

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  All this fuss about e-scooters comes into balanced focus watching Reeling in the Years for 1985, when Spike Island was used to imprison joyriders, 40 years ago…

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  Reading the Wikipedia entry on Seán O’Duffy, the man that the camogie All-Ireland Final cup is called after. It’s so confused that I’d spend time I can’t spare straightening it out but luckily I’m barred and can’t #camogie

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  This map of fatal crashes in the first seven months of this year shows how dreadful our roads and driving are and how nothing, nothing is done about this. Garda image, from The Irish Times report on the death of Glen Hansard

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  Shaman that the boys thought was one of them turns out to be a she, man https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/27/the-guardian-view-on-ancient-dna-a-female-shaman-exposes-our-flawed-assumptions-about-the-past

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  The Dublin Inquirer is a tiny but great newspaper in the investigative journalism tradition of the great papers. But it desperately needs subscribers. If you value truth in journalism in Ireland please subscribe. https://www.dublininquirer.com/ # FreePress #journalism #Dublin #Ireland #DublinInquirer

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  Eh? Where will they stick the tax and insurance discs? https://www.thejournal.ie/e-scooters-ban-insurance-tax-7108880-Jul2026/?utm_source=thejournal&utm_content=top-stories #escooters

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  I'm having a little trouble with the exact placenames in this 1926 census entry - can anyone help? #Gaeilge #SeanLitríocht

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  Hmm. Not assault with a deadly weapon? https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-charged-with-dangerous-driving-over-skerries-incident/a/158946912.html

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  RE: https://mastodon.ie/@expectationlost/116852479918094075 Unbefuckinlievable. If you'd like to write to your local TDs about this, here they are https://www.contactyourtd.ie #hares #beautifulcreatures #cruelty #gambling

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  Two sculptures beside the beautiful canal bridge at Broombridge, in memory of the day in 1843 that 38-year-old William Rowan Hamilton, walking with his wife Helen, scratched the recipe for quaternions into the stone of the bridge in case he'd forget it later #Quaternions #RowanHamilton #Broombridge

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  Someone on the BBC World Service is asking if potatoes can actually be a complete food. Let me tell you, before the Famine, when people in large parts of Ireland were raised on a diet of mainly potatoes and buttermilk, with occasional additions of cabbage, fish and wild foods, they were big, healthy people. When the potatoes failed, terrible diseases came in; TB became endemic; during the Famine, cholera, typhus, typhoid, and malnutrition took its terrible toll

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  Tough guy https://www.adventurecycling.org/blog/the-centaur-of-the-arctic/ #GlebTravin

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  Interesting piece on cycling advocacy https://www.adventurecycling.org/blog/take-action-bike-advocacy-issues/ @ccferrie @raycunningham @JanetPHorner @Feljin @clickhere

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  But who do you believe? #stocks #bonds #crash

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  Sales cons

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  What a shame and a pity that the UK's historic censuses, which go back to 1801 and happened every 10 years after that, are not online open and free for everyone to use for research and family interest https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/storyofthecensus/

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  "What we need to be doing is acting like every death is unacceptable and preventable," writes Dr John Legge, consultant in emergency medicine - the toll of our deadly roads leaves multiple people maimed https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/05/04/we-underestimate-the-true-impact-of-our-dangerous-roads/ #IrelandsDeadlyRoads

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  Can people recommend some good comedies on #Mubi?

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  Constance Markievicz in the 1926 census - but who are the people with her, and what is their work, and who are they working for?

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  Oh, fecking Apple - the Quartz Filter (handy for cleaning up photos taken on old phones) has disappeared from Preview's Export dialogue box. How do I get it back? Has Microsoft, with its If It Ain't Broke Let's Fix It philosophy, infiltrated Apple?

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  RE: https://mastodon.ie/@murchadhfinn/116447015786233758 How can Europe *not* suspend an agreement with a country whose relations with its neighbours are kill-kill-kill and which is operating a policy of ethnic cleansing and land theft? This astonishes me. #Israel #EU

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  One of the problems with using AI - I was puzzled that I couldn't find any Ceannt women. Anyone - absolutely anyone - who filled out the form in Irish and listed her name as "Bean uí duine-éigin" - well, her surname is listed as "Bean" 😂 Its equivalent in English would be listing her surname as "Mrs" #AI #1926Census #census #Ireland

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  When Ireland (and especially Sean MacBride) decided whether to swing left - free universal healthcare; or right - the Mr Millions system we have now: Noël Browne and the bishops and the pols. And the medics who feared losing their profitable down-lined golden nest https://www.irishtimes.com/history/2026/04/12/why-the-failure-of-noel-brownes-mother-and-child-scheme-still-matter-75-years-later/

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  Traffic "accidents" killed many children in the 1930s too - and then, too, the driver was strangely backed-off from the reports of what killed the child

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  #handwriting help please! What hospital in Dublin (probably north Dublin) is this, in a 1908 death registration? And what did Louise die of?