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John Legge

@johnlegge.bsky.social
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Consultant in Emergency Medicine Interested in active travel, terrified of climate change Sea swimmer, runner, cyclist Tá gaeilge agam

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our @johnlegge.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social this morning, calling out the failure of our government to enforce and implement real road safety solutions - not just legislation! 💪 #ActiveTravel #RoadSafety #WarOnWalking www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/do-...
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Do we need an outright ban on scramblers?
Health professionals will come before an Oireachtas Committee today to call for an outright ban on scramblers. This comes in an attempt to improve road safety for all users.  Speaking to Claire this ...
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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My letter in today's @irishtimes.com regarding our government's myriad terrible decisions - data centres, fossil dependency, energy sovereignty, and of course, health! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Budget unlikely to resolve surging energy prices
Coalition determined to defend data centres with fossil fuel price cuts as they siphon 23% of our energy supply
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Excellent letter by our own @lisadangermcnamee.bsky.social in today's @irishtimes.com regarding fare increases, and overall spate of terrible decisions by our government in the face of climate breakdown! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Disastrous consequences of climate breakdown right in front of us
You’d think encouraging public transport usage to reduce gridlock would be motivating enough
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yesterday we protested the fare increases. Thousands die every year from air pollution, noise pollution, stress and sedentary activity. This is in addition to lives lost on the road. Tethering us to fossil fuels and private car use will cost lives.
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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 03/09/2026
Today’s stories from Ireland
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Roderic O’Gorman TD @rodericogorman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We’re in the middle of a cost of living crisis, yet the Government throws commuters under the bus.... (sorry about the bad pun, but this is outrageous)
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Active Travel is justice. We need to move faster and deliver high-quality infrastructure. A mode shift away from car-dependence is badly needed in Ireland - we may not realise just how much!
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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The NTA reports that every €1 invested in Active Travel gives a €4 economic return. My Master's thesis this year was on Active Travel, health, environment & economy in Ireland. Our current transport culture is costing us so much more than we realise. Let's go through the findings:
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every €1 invested in Active Travel returns €4 to the economy, says NTA. This factors in jobs, reduced air pollution, physical activity, accidents avoided, among other economic benefits. But let's look at the actual cost of our current car-dependence. A thread: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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€1 invested in active travel returns €4 to economy - NTA
Every euro invested in active travel produces almost €4 in economic benefits, according to a report commissioned by the National Transport Authority.
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John Legge @johnlegge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A few years ago I gave an interview to the Irish Independent on using a cargo bike for the school run. Still relevant today and hoping to see many more parents make this modal shift as schools return this week! www.independent.ie/lifestyle/fa...
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Two-wheel drive: Parents ditch the car for the school run
With the Government pledging €15m to improve infrastructure such as paths and cycle lanes, Chrissie Russell talks to mums and dads who have embraced more active and environmentally friendly modes of t...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5



Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day, especially to the fathers who bike.
Man riding on blue long cargo bike with two kids on the back and one kid in a seat on the front between his arms. Another person on a bike is going the other way in the background.
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
‘But I’m a careful driver’ syndrome. People never think it’ll happen to them, yet every day people who thought this end up killing or seriously injuring someone. Every car journey imposes a non-negligible risk to society. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study finds
Exclusive: Research suggests financial penalties necessary if number of large vehicles on roads is to be reduced
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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If other news was reported like climate change:
A picture of a couple driving and laughing with the text "road fatalities highest in ten years"
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A must read by our very own @johnlegge.bsky.social! "We need to hold the Government to account on making our roads safer as a matter of urgency."
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We underestimate the true impact of our dangerous roads
The real burden of road trauma on the health system is far greater than the fatality count might suggest
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John Legge @johnlegge.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My opinion piece in today’s Irish Times
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Dr John Legge calling out the lack of political will to act on road safety.
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Calls for urgent action to curtail the amount of road fatalities in recent years
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🌍🌱 Today, Earth Day, we joined demonstrators outside the Dáil to support the motion to: - Re-commit to its 2030 climate targets. - Cease legislative efforts to undermine the critical Climate Action Act. - Increase funding for Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan - Implement a just energy transition
A protest outside Dáil Éireann from across the road, with lots of posters calling for climate action. A speaker from Irish Doctors for the Environment is in the centre with a megaphone
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A thought-provoking and insightful piece — well worth a read. “Governance by Liveline” aptly sums up how Ireland is being run.
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Mind the Gap
Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Our statement on the Galway Ring Road. Building more roads on a world on fire is truly an act of insanity.
Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Today, Thursday the 8th of April 2026, the Galway City Ring Road was granted approval by An Coimisiún Pleanála. The timing could not be more ironic: amidst a global fossil fuel crisis and a climate emergency. The current fuel crisis is exposing just how vulnerable our fossil-fuel-reliant transport system truly is. Building more roads will exacerbate this further. 

Roads don't reduce traffic, they create it. It's induced demand: build it, they will drive. Meanwhile, public and active transport are sidelined.As a consequence, Irish transport emissions have yet to see a meaningful decrease. This road will lead to more emissions, more inactivity, and more harm to human health. It will lock in carbon and these effects for generations to come.

Our response to a planet on fire from climate change and fossil-fuelled conflicts is to pour more concrete on the ground.

Irish Doctors for the Environment have, over the years, written numerous statements and letters opposing the ring road. Although it may be sold as a solution, it is not. Decades of road building and car-centric sprawl across the world have shown us that.
The alternatives are clear: a tram system, world-class active travel infrastructure, better rail, and improved bus connections. Galway could become a city that prioritises health for the people and the planet. Instead, politicians and planners seem hellbent on turning it into yet another city surrounded by a massive road.

Building more roads on a world on fire is truly an act of insanity.
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John Legge @johnlegge.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Say what you will about the fuel protests - I’m loving the pedestrianization trial of the quays
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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Very proud with a full heart after counter-protesting the Fuel Price Blockade ❤️ with @irishdocsenv.bsky.social The events of the last few days and weeks throw the reality of our fossil dependency into sharp relief. Now is the time to take swift action and break free from fossil fuels.
Orlagh is wearing a green t-shirt with Irish Doctors for the Environment written on the back in white font. She is riding a bicycle on a near-empty street in Dublin, and turning around to face the camera, smiling, holding up a blurry peace sign.Members of Irish Doctors for the Environment, all wearing green t-shirts and some with bicycles and stethoscopes, are pictured holding up their blue Logo flag with Senator Malcolm Noonan.A shot from behind of Orlagh riding a Dublin Bicycle up a near-empty Kildare Street. She is wearing the Green Irish Doctors for the Environment Tshirt with the organisation name on the back, but her braid obscures it slightly. She is wearing black leggings and brown boots and is standing out of the saddle
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Contrary to what these letter writers might think, recommissioning gas and oil exploration, and turf-burning power stations is neither courageous nor does it provide energy security. Instead, it will increase emissions and harm human health. Time to end fossil fuels, not look fore more!
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Some fuel alternatives
Bowing to pressure and abandoning oil and gas exploration will cost us dearly in terms of future energy security
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Let's combat soaring fuel prices with default 30km/h urban speed limits (among other things). My letter in The Irish Times this morning.
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Combat soaring fuel prices with 30km/h speed limit
Politicians respond with temporary fixes while avoiding fundamental change
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Orlagh Gaynor @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We have built our house on sand with fossil dependency. Instead of recognising this, our government has chosen to stick a band aid on the issue. Committee member of @irishdocsenv.bsky.social , @olaln.bsky.social brilliantly calls out this fallacy in @thejournal.ie today! 🌍
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 31/03/2026
Fuel subsidies in a climate crisis: As prices rise at the pumps, the Government should instead be changing course on fossil fuel use to secure our future. jrnl.ie/6999209
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Petrol and diesel hikes: Government pushes the same old fix in a worsening climate crisis
As prices rise at the pumps, the Government should be changing course on fossil fuel use to secure our future, but instead it’s doubling down with subsidies.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
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John Legge @johnlegge.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Fuel prices are going up again. A quick thread on the wonders of e-bikes
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Victim-blaming dressed up as a question, combined with a basic misunderstanding of statistics from @antonsavage.bsky.social.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We firmly oppose this measure, as existing evidence indicates that such laws do not, in fact, protect people who cycle. The union should be calling for better active transport infrastructure instead of deflecting responsibility to the most vulnerable people on the roads.
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Bus drivers' union want to see hi-vis jackets become 'mandatory' for cyclists
The union said that the issue has grown due to a ‘proliferation’ of electric vehicles.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Our statement regarding last week's proposal to introduce a mandate on helmets and high-visibility gear for people who cycle 🚴‍♂️ Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road. Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them
two people dressed as smartphones
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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Conscious any discussion on transport is polarising but can we agree on: 🚗 Less speeding in cities and towns 👮‍♀️ A Garda focus on speed enforcement 🛣 Road design and landscaping to reinforce this 🚴‍♀️ Cycling facilities that protect children (and ourselves) 🏍 Confiscation of illegal souped-up e-bikes?
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Michael Pidgeon @pidgeondublin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What a wildly stupid idea. Mandatory helmets and high viz is a proven remedy to reduce the number of people cycling. It effectively kills off things like Dublin Bikes. That's why no other EU country does anything like this. Pure madness.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Fucking gombeens. Love to be seen to do something and it's inevitably the stupid knee-jerk wrong thing rather than the more difficult necessary evidence based thing that will upset some of their gombeen friends
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
did a little experiment with two cars on our street the 5-year-old is 105cm (3' 5") in bare feet. she could clearly see the steering wheel of the toyota, couldn't even see the windscreen of the yank tank I asked her where they'd hit if they hit her: "the little one my tummy, the big one my head"
small child standing in front of a massive black SUV, the level of the bonnet is higher than her headsmall child standing in front of a normal toyota hatchback, her eyes are level with the windscreen wipers
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"When cars come first, everyone loses"
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Ireland's dangerous roads: When cars come first, everyone loses
Sadhbh O’ Neill says that the reduction of road deaths in Ireland is being strangled by a lack of political courage.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It'll be kinda funny if forcing me to wear a helmet is the final straw that breaks me What makes cycling safer is treating cycling as a real form of transport, making motorists drive safely, and separating cyclists from the big heavy dangerous motorised machines with protected cycle lanes
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Letter from Dr John Legge responding to the recent discourse on proposals to mandate high-visibility clothing for vulnerable road users.
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Ray Cunningham @ray-cunningham.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Active travel means healthier people, especially healthier kids. We should be doing everything we can to support it. (Thanks to the D12BikeBus for letting me film them this cold morning!)
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
GRMA to all our loyal supporters for making the journey to London today to support us. 💚🤍🧡
Sammy Wilson shows his support for Kneecap.
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 09/01/2026
This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.
Lots of abusive and misogynistic far-right posts on X are the first replies to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Poignant letter by Dr Lisa McNamee in the Irish Times this morning.
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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Some people say the political cultures of the 26 and 6 will be hard to integrate. The shared enthusiasm for deliberately destroying our waterways to please the intensive farming lobby seems very compatible.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Our letter today.
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The NTA’s 2024 Travel Survey is out. Car use is rising. Active and public transport are stagnant. The consequences aren’t future risks — they’re here, for our health and the planet. And make no mistake: this isn’t policy failure. It’s policy intent, locally and nationally.
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