Cargo bikes are, probably, the purest expression of utility cycling. They allow for that bit extra – carrying two or more children, bulky loads, whatever you can’t fit on your everyday bike. The environment you cycle in needs to facilitate bigger bikes, something that is often lacking in Dublin. Hopefully, that will improve as use […]
A firm call for ending direct provision, but is anyone going to action it? The Oireachtas committee’s report says a section of Irish society is being neglected and discriminated against. It wants its findings to be a wake-up call to the Government, the Oireachtas, the Department of Justice and the related agencies. It also wants […]
This really is a great cover. Slightly faster, with a bit more anger than melancholy, and a full punching bass line, Jack Off Jill really deliver here.
‘No’ posters in the same-sex marriage referendum campaign which say every child should have a mother and a father are homophobic, a senior Church of Ireland figure said at its General Synod in Armagh. […] Speaking as “a strong supporter of the Yes campaign” he admitted “it is not easy for me to be here […]
Fredrik Gertten has a new documentary film out, which looks very interesting: I have, give or take, mainly peddled the line that it’s not a war between the two-wheeled and the four-wheeled: how could it be, when a lot of us are both drivers and cyclists (and sometimes, inevitably, also pedestrians)? It seemed to me, […]
Seven decades after the second World War ended in Berlin, Germany is still burying its dead. And here in the military graveyard in Halbe, an hour southeast of Berlin, hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to the latest soldiers to join the 27,000 already lying here.Most lost their lives here in […]
The Future. "Grandma, where were you when [Important News Event] happened?" *sighs wearily* "On Twitter, darling. We were all on Twitter" — Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) April 28, 2015 100% true.
Every now and then, I like to revisit "the actual grammar nazi" tweet. pic.twitter.com/xS3CxgR4Il — Hend (@LibyaLiberty) April 25, 2015
The Guardian has a great piece on how Amsterdam became the world’s cycling capital. It wasn’t always bike lanes and bakfiets, but a struggle against the intrusion of the motorcar into space for people. The activists of Stop de Kindermoord and the Cyclists’ Union were resourceful and undaunted, but there were other forces helping to create a […]
