For some reason Vs. has always been my favourite Pearl Jam album. It always brings me back to a hot summer afternoon in 1994.
Cities for People
Environment
Transport
We’re paying €28m a year to private toll road operators thanks to ‘minimum traffic’ clauses that were agreed to in a time of increasing traffic flows and as an incentive to the operators to invest the building of the roads in the first place. The department is now examining whether removing tolls would increase traffic […]
Germany
Oddities
Wonderful World
Germany and the “civil servant excavators” – the Paternoster lift: Jumping on to one recently with all the prowess of a veteran rider, the editor in chief of the Berlin-based leftwing paper Neues Deutschland referred to the juddering metal cage as “the socialist among elevators”. Together with a slim camera man, Tom Strohschneider squeezes into […]
Arts
Do Not Adjust Your Set
Just for Laughs
A colleague mentioned change and this video from the last general election coverage by RTE’s ‘The Eleventh Hour’ popped into my head. Apropos the upcoming election, best comment: “if only the government was as good as this video”
Photography
Abandoned stone cottage, all alone on a hill, Aughrus Penisula, Connemara, Summer 2015.
Advertising
Arts
History
Photography
Places & Travel
Charming old tourism poster spotted in the Railway Bar, Clifden:
Health
Some good news: Stillbirths have dropped by almost 8% in England since the smoking ban was introduced, research has shown.The number of babies dying shortly after birth has also dropped by almost 8%, according to the study. A team led by Edinburgh University looked at information on more than 10 million births in England between […]
Cities for People
Cycling
London is not alone in lacking gender parity in cycling. Sustainable transport consultant Alix Stredwick quotes 2008 research by the Department for Transport showing that UK-wide, women make 27% of cycle journeys, just ahead of the US at 25%, but below Canada at 30% – and in a different league entirely to Germany at 49%, […]
Cycling
Damien Ó Tuama in the Irish Times, responds well to their recent variable-quality series on cycling and road deaths: Policing and road safety efforts must be weighted towards slowing down motorised vehicles. This is particularly pertinent given that an increasing proportion of newly registered cars are sports utility vehicles (SUVs), with greater masses, wider bodies, higher front […]