Earlier today, Irish Cycling Campaign made a submission to the Department of Transport in respect to its Public Consultation on “Moving Together – A Strategic Approach to the Improved Efficiency of the Transport System in Ireland”. The full submission can be read below. Irish Cycling Campaign wishes to sincerely thank all of our volunteers who contributed to the drafting of this submission. It is this … Continue reading Moving Together Consultation – Irish Cycling Campaign Submission
Press Release – 20 August 2024 Irish Cycling Campaign Condemns RSA’s “Lose Your Licence, Lose Your Independence” Campaign for Insensitive Messaging and Misguided Focus The Irish Cycling Campaign today voiced its deep concerns over the Road Safety Authority of Ireland’s (RSA) recent “Lose Your Licence, Lose Your Independence” campaign. The campaign, which aims to highlight the consequences of dangerous driving, has been criticised for its … Continue reading Irish Cycling Campaign Condemns RSA’s “Lose Your Licence, Lose Your Independence” Campaign
The Irish Cycling Campaign today welcomes the introduction of online reporting capabilities to Ireland’s TrafficWatch service, marking a significant step towards modernising traffic incident reporting. Road users can now begin the process of reporting traffic issues online, making it easier to log an incident and easier to follow up. While providing photos or video footage and making a statement remains the same, by recording the … Continue reading Irish Cycling Campaign Welcomes Online Reporting Improvement to TrafficWatch Service
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
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