Healthcare and cycling groups call for more focus from hospitals on active travel. The Sustainability Committee of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland, Cyclist.ie and Irish Doctors for the Environment have come together to recognise the best Irish public hospital for their commitment to active travel. A complex transport network is needed to move goods, staff and patients in healthcare. There is a significant carbon … Continue reading Hospitals Active Travel Award
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Cyclist.ie was delighted to attend the Business of Cycling Learning and Networking event held in the Custom House on Friday 23rd September 2022. The event was hosted by Cycling Solutions Ireland and it coincided with the Cycling Friendly Employer (CFE) accreditation being awarded to the Custom House. The keynote speaker on the day was Jill Warren, CEO of the European Cyclists’ Federation. Also presenting was … Continue reading Business of Cycling Networking Event
Kudos to Dublin City Council for organising its ‘Efficiency of Space’ photoshoot early last Sunday morning, 11 September 2022, for which several members of Cyclist.ie and Dublin Cycling Campaign volunteered. The images produced are a powerful reminder of how space-efficient bicycles and buses are in a city centre environment. The original image from 1979, which inspired the ones produced this week, was produced by Fietsersbond … Continue reading Efficiency of Space for Different Transport Modes
Cyclist.ie and Dublin Cycling Campaign are delighted to be back in the Electric Picnic as it returns to Stradbally, County Laois, after a two year pandemic break. We first had our cycling space back in 2009, so this will be our 12th time bringing our bicycle campaigning energies to Electric Picnic. You can check out some reports on previous EP bicycle spaces here (for 2015) … Continue reading Cyclist.ie Back in the Electric Picnic
This is the forth in a series of articles on the recent Velo-city International Cycling Conference – with this one written by Giulia Grigoli of Dublin Cycling Campaign / Cyclist.ie. The Beginning Velo-City 2022, Ljubljana, was my third Velo-City, having attended and presented before at Velo-City 2019 in Dublin and at the hybrid remote-in person edition in 2021 in Lisbon. I arrived a few days … Continue reading VELO-CITY 2022 – CYCLIST.IE REPORTS – GIULIA GRIGOLI
In this piece primary school teacher Dave Tobin and physiotherapist Maeve Howlett outline the immense health, therapeutic and social inclusion benefits of cycling for children with autism. Both have decades of experience and expertise of working with young people with autism in their respective fields. Children with autism are very often some of the most creative and detail oriented children within the classroom. They are … Continue reading Cycling and Autism
Cyclist.ie delivered its Pre-Budget 2023 Submission to the Department of Finance (Minister Paschal Donohoe) and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Minister Michael McGrath) yesterday, 14th July 2022. You can read it in full as a PDF here or in the body text below. A big thanks to our hard-working Executive Committee and wider team for preparing the submission. This behind-the-scenes technical work is … Continue reading Pre-Budget 2023 Submission from Cyclist.ie
Earlier today (Friday 15th July 2022), Cyclist.ie made a brief submission in response to the public consultation on the Connemara Greenway. Once again, a big thanks to our volunteers for the help with this. You can read our submission below and check out the public consultations documents / maps here. Route Corridor Options – from the Project Brochure (see https://galwaytooughterardgreenway.ie/publications/) As the Infrastructural Coordinator of … Continue reading Connemara Greenway (Stage 2) – Cyclist.ie Submission