I want to ride my bicycle…(but I don’t feel safe).
It is well known that 2017 saw the third successive year where Irish cycling fatalities have seen an increase. Despite a reduction in fatalities across all other transport modes, pedal cyclist fatalities increased by 50% over those of 2016. We don’t often get […]
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- Feb, 01, 2018
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MPDL – A Chat on the Mat with Brendan Cassidy
This week, our Chat on the Mat series, we chat to a good friend of mine, Killarney Cycling Club stalwart, Brendan Cassidy. Foreword. Cycling is a great activity where life long friendships are […]
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- Jan, 24, 2018
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Going Dutch-Notes from the Low Countries.
Netherlands 🇳🇱 Sept 2015. We initially posted this on the excellent Irishcycle.com website. We have recently began writing our own blogs and decided to add it here. “A group of Irish councilors, campaigners, officials and engineers visited the Netherlands on a cycling study tour between September 15-18, today we publish the first of […]
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- Jan, 20, 2018
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A chat on the mat with Heather Boyle
Cycling – Opinion Piece by HEATHER BOYLE This year we celebrated 200 years of the bicycle. Next year we will be celebrating 150 years since the first bike race. It’s an exciting time for cycling, our cyclists are on top of the world! We had over 20 European and World level podium […]
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- Jan, 07, 2018
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MPDL Enforcement – through images
We have written a more substantial page on MPDL (Minimum Passing Distance Law) Enforcement and can be seen at this link. We are aware of people’s time pressures and decided to add some imagery and short video clips that we hope will help interested parties to understand how this is enforced overseas. Bear […]
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- Jan, 06, 2018
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Dangerous Overtaking – What’s the problem?
THE PROBLEM: We regularly hear the headline figure of the 15 bicycle riders who have died on Irish roads so far this year. Some of these people have been killed in collisions with vehicles traveling in the same direction perhaps as a […]
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- Dec, 29, 2017
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