As we do each year in advance of the government preparing its budget, we made our Pre-Budget submission to the Minister for Finance at the end of last week. You can read a copy of it below. A sincere thanks to our super hard working team of volunteers for preparing this document. If you appreciate this work / are not yet a member of Irish … Continue reading Pre-Budget 2025 Submission
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Kilkenny, Ireland – a city renowned for its medieval charm and its burgeoning cycling community. Cycle Kilkenny, a group dedicated to promoting everyday cycling in the city, are now part of the Irish Cycling Campaign. Volunteer Dave Anderson from the Irish Cycling Campaign recently visited Kilkenny to meet the group, to share experiences organising local groups.
Irish Cycling Campaign was contacted in May 2024 by Ann-Marie Conrado, Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in the US. The reason: to explore the feasibility of us helping to steer a project conducted by its ‘Design Thinking’ students on the challenge of increasing cycling ridership in Dublin. The students were engaging in a Notre Dame Dublin study abroad … Continue reading University of Notre Dame & Irish Cycling Campaign Collaboration
Irish Cycling Campaign, formerly Cyclist.ie, has been sending delegates to ECF’s Velo-city International cycling planning conference since the 1990s, and we were delighted to be represented at its latest edition held in June 2024. It took place in the wonderful bicycle friendly city of Ghent in Belgium and was the largest Velo-city yet held with over 1650 registered delegates from 60 different countries. In this … Continue reading Irish Cycling Campaign at Velo-City Ghent 2024
Irish Cycling Campaign is part of a fabulous Erasmus+ international project with broad themes of social inclusion, intergenerational relationships, climate action and cycling promotion – as we reported on here earlier in the year. The project is centred around cultural exchange visits between the partner organisations based in Spain, Portugal, Poland and Ireland. Those organisations are a mixture of schools and cycling advocacy bodies. The … Continue reading Irish Cycling Campaign in Wodzislaw Slaski – Erasmus+ Project
Joan Swift from Sligo Cycling Campaign and Irish Cycling Campaign has penned the following report on the recent Mary Robinson Climate Conference panel discussion on e-mobility. The 2024 edition of the annual Mary Robinson Climate Conference took place in Ballina, County Mayo, from 5th to 7th June. Sligo Cycling Campaign was delighted to be asked to participate in the panel on e-mobility hosted by IS … Continue reading MARY ROBINSON CLIMATE CONFERENCE – E-MOBILITY PANEL – ICC REPORT
In this article, Irish Cycling Campaign’s Infrastructure Coordinator, Colm Ryder, considers if ICC’s planning submissions are making a difference – and, if yes, in what way? The Irish Cycling Campaign (formerly Cyclist.ie) has been making submissions to Planning Authorities and Government Bodies, on public consultations, for at least the past 15 years. This work is part of our broader efforts to improve conditions for active … Continue reading Do Our Planning Submissions Make A Difference?
Earlier this week, Irish Cycling Campaign (ICC) made a submission on the consultation on the R448 Road Space Pilot Scheme being developed by Kildare County Council. You can read details of the consultation here, and our submission below. In short, ICC is disappointed at the poor quality of the consultation material presented and the dearth of background context. We urge Kildare County Council and TII … Continue reading Irish Cycling Campaign submission on R448 Road Space Pilot Scheme (Kildare)