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Richmond Road Liveable Streets. We are a vibrant community of connected neighbours who are working together to improve our local area - currently focused on safety (road), greening, & connections!

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Safe Routes to School @srts-ire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ClearOurPaths is a campaign from Vision Ireland. It calls on us to create a safer environment for people who are blind or vision impaired by removing: 🚗 Cars parked on footpaths 💩 Dog fouling 🚮 Wheelie bins 🪴 Street furniture that is inappropriately placed 🌳 Overhanging branches.
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What an event this week! Adjacent neighbours & others came to support. Passing walkers & wheelers enjoyed the #safety on their route - one dad & passenger even did a joyful wiggle down the street 🚴😍 #LiveableStreets are better for everyone! #WorldCarFreeDay #CommunityHealth #HumanStreets
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Richmond Road & Grace Park Avenue Residents’ Association on Instagram: "A great morning out celebrating #WorldCarFreeDay and making our voices heard about the dangerous conditions on our road. 🚲☀️ We...
34 likes, 1 comments - richmondroadra on September 22, 2026: "A great morning out celebrating #WorldCarFreeDay and making our voices heard about the dangerous conditions on our road. 🚲☀️ We met so ma...
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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A good start to #MobilityWeek? After another weekend of terrible tragedy on Ireland's roads, EU ministers have a chance to talk some sense into Government at today's meeting: irish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/events/in...
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our friends on Richmond Road, Drumcondra are celebrating World Car Free Day in style - join them on the 22nd September to advocate for transformative change on our city streets.
Poster for "Richmond Road Goes Car Free" Tuesday 22nd september 2026 7.45am to 9.15am
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On 22 Sep, we celebrate #WorldCarFreeDay, closing our road to cars from 07:45-09:15. Cyclists, wheelers & walkers welcome! 🎶Join us for music, coffee & snacks to fuel for the day! This road is on a joy break!! We take this action because... #Health #Safety #Community
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Our community came together 12 Aug to demand immediate reprieve from the dangerous conditions on Richmond Rd. Thx @donnacooney1.bsky.social @karlstanley.bsky.social Clodagh NiMhuiri for joining in support our community & neighbours; & @garda.ie for keeping us all #safe! #VisionZero #LiveableStreet
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ever wondered what we’re trying to achieve and why? Our Co-Chair Kate explains - an extract of the full video made by our community member Stewart Lambert. #Safety #Health #Community #RichmondRoad #LiveableStreet #HumansLiveHere
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
📢 Once again we peacefully, joyfully reclaim our street Wed 12 Aug, 0730-0830, to demand immediate reprieve from the dangerous conditions on Richmond Road! This follows 1 year of footpath demos, 10mths after our last road closure. Please join us to celebrate what health, safety & joy can look like!
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We asked for traffic calming, not alternating gridlock or qualifying laps.🚦 Rat-running brings #pollution, #stress, & #safety risk to our #community. A safe home environment matters. Last week marked 1 year of peaceful footpath demos - this week our last before a change up! Watch this space 👀
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Formula 1 Race Start Grid
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#Pollution levels up. #Stress levels up. #Safety levels down. 📉 Rat-running on narrow residential roads harms people. Safe movement & #healthy communities are basic rights. We were on our footpath again this week, standing up for our collective safety & health. @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
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Jim Carrey Frustrated in Traffic
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This week was our 47th week showing up for our #community… 📢 BROADCAST DISRUPTION 📢 Traffic: ✔️Air pollution ✔️Noise pollution But did you know more traffic = less community? It’s called community severance. It also correlates to social exclusion & impedes wellbeing. @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 16/07/2026
From Viviana Zelizer’s Pricing the priceless child (1985) “Children cannot obtain space and can lose rights to what they have when others demand more, so children suffer…the new 20thC rules for urban outdoor space, designed by adults for their convenience, constricted the public life of children.”
Recent studies of human spatial behavior note the relative powerlessness of children in the distribution of indoor house- hold space. As Mark Baldassare explains, dominant members of a family "can obtain the space they need for their activities ... by taking it from subordinate members... Children cannot obtain space and can lose rights to what they have when others demand more, and so children suffer."91 Similarly, the new twentieth-century rules for urban outdoor space, designed by adults for their convenience, constricted the public life of children. As one fourteen-year-old boy observed perceptively in 1921, "... a child doesn't make traffic rules, drive cars, etc. The child's main object is to keep out of the way of moving vehicles ."
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
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Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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A Playful City @aplayfulcity.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"A city that moves at the pace of its people rather than its cars is a city that understands progress." - Catherine Conlon, Senior Medical Officer, HSE, Cork. Former Director of Human Health and Nutrition at safefood. www.echolive.ie/corkviews/ar...
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Cork Views: Fewer cars will make new Cork city village such an idyllic spot
Cork City Council has exciting, innovative plans for a village within the historic core of the city. But the plans need to retain their ambition to ...
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Our collective #safety & #health, over *attempted* minutes of #convenience. We're *11 months* - 46 weeks - going. Once again, we’re occupying the footpath — since no one’s occupying #responsibility. #LiveableStreet @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @dublincommuters.bsky.social @irishdocsenv.bsky.social
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 03/07/2026
Ciarán Cannon on SUVs: Research increasingly suggests larger vehicles protect their occupants at the expense of those outside them, so why are we letting them rule the roads? jrnl.ie/7080141
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Ciarán Cannon: No small cars, saloons, hatchbacks... why have we allowed SUVs rule the roads?
Research increasingly suggests that bigger vehicles protect their occupants at the expense of those outside them, which does not bode well for Ireland’s road safety record.
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Children walking to school shouldn’t need Formula 1 reflexes 🏎️🛑 Excessive traffic on narrow residential roads risks lives & harms #health. We stand on the footpath so families can stand up for #SafeStreets. #Health #ActiveTravel @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @dublincommuters.bsky.social
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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Bigger cars are costing Irish motorists parking spaces and threatening lives, study finds Damien Ó Tuama, National Cycling Co-ordinator at Irish Cycling Campaign and An Taisce said that Ireland’s residential and urban streets are “turning more into giant car www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Bigger cars are costing Irish motorists parking spaces and threatening lives, study finds
Research shows 14% of on-street car parking spaces will be erased by ever bigger cars
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our community was out again today - 44th weekly protest! It’s our #health at stake… 📢 BROADCAST DISRUPTION 📢 Did you know that #airpollution causes ~1,700 premature #deaths in Ireland p.a. (2024), an increase since 2021? @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @irishdocsenv.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
43rd protest today! Our road wasn’t designed for rush hour traffic. It was designed for… people! 👣 Funny concept, we know. Constant #rat-running threatens #safety, #health, & #life. Little ones should be able to walk/cycle to school & survive! @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @irishdocsenv.bsky.social
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Had our 42nd weekly protest today… 📢 BROADCAST DISRUPTION 📢 We all know Ireland’s concerning #traffic fatality statistics, but did you know motorists caused 1,696 serious injuries in 2022, up from 755 in 2014? #RSA☠️ #Safety #Health #Wellbeing #CommunityNotCarCrash @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 22/05/2026
This is really a sad case, their poor daughter having to see it happening and losing both of her parents... A stark reminder that motorists running red lights kill up to a few people a year and there's little ever said about it. www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
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Man jailed for Dublin hit-and-run which killed couple
A man has been jailed for five years for a hit-and-run incident in Dublin on St Stephen's Day 2024, which led to the death of a husband and wife.
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Dublin Commuters @dublincommuters.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
FF Finance Minister meets FF Transport Minister to discuss delivery of Dart+ South West, a project neither of them have funded as the respective Government Ministers’ 🙄 *Spoilers* It’s not “on track” because there’s no money for the tracks!! www.leinsterleader.ie/news/kildare...
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Kildare's DART+ South West 'on track' for delivery
Minister James Lawless TD recently held a meeting with the Minister for Transport
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Current road status: 1 lane, >5000 cars a day, 0 common sense. 🚘😵‍💫 We deserve #CleanAir, #safe crossings, and the radical freedom to leave the front door without a near-death experience. 39th footpath protest this week. #SafetyHealth #DMURS #community @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
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YᗩY ᖴOᖇ ᗷIᑕYᑕᒪEᔕ 🚲 @yayforbicycles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Approx. ~2.4m private CARS in Ireland. Approx. ~14000 Gardai of which approx. ~1000 are assigned to traffic. Virtually 0 enforcement. A very high proportion of that CAR fleet are driven dangerously. We're all being put in danger by successive governments lack of interest in solving this crisis.
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It is #unsafe for humans - fine for machines. 🪧That’s why we were out AGAIN this week - our 37th wk & *9 month mark* - of footpath protests!! Everyday traffic issues continue for our #ratrun… I mean, our #community! #Volume, #speed, driver #aggression. #RichmondRoad #LiveableStreet #SafetyHealth
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 27/03/2026
Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers. Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
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Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We, along with the 30 other groups listed below, are appalled at the decision by Minister Seán Canney to abandon the much needed reform of the Road Safety Authority. The National Road Safety Strategy is in shambles and reform is urgently needed to save lives. @darraghobrientd.bsky.social
In April 2024, we expressed no confidence in the Road Safety Authority (RSA), believing it to be no longer fit for purpose. In August 2024 we welcomed the government’s proposed reform of the Road Safety Authority and are alarmed by the announcement today that the Minister for State for Road Safety Seán Canney is abandoning the reform process.
We remain firmly of the view that the Road Safety Authority as it is currently constituted is not fit for purpose and must be reformed. The independent report commissioned by Minister Jack Chambers last year clearly supports that reform. In response to the report, then Taoiseach Simon Harris said that we “need an agency dedicated wholly and exclusively to road safety and advocacy", and Minister James Lawless, said that "the failures of the organisation are evident from the report” and that “by reforming the RSA into an agency with a singular operational focus and establishing a standalone entity to deliver wider public interest activities, I believe we will realise substantial benefits with improved provision of key road safety services.”
All that has changed in the meantime is that more people have died, and more people have suffered life-changing serious injuries. 
The National Road Safety Strategy is in shambles. The number of people killed on our roads this year to date has already exceeded the number killed for the entire year in 2024 and we could see the highest death toll in a decade by the end of the year. More people have been killed on motorcycles than in any year since 2007 and more people have been killed while walking, cycling and scooting than in any year since 2008.
Deaths and serious injuries among people walking and cycling consistently make up about 40% of all deaths and serious injuries over the last ten years - the most vulnerable road users, who present the least danger on our roads, are suffering the most serious consequences of our road safety failings.
 Co-Signatories 
A Playful City 
Cork Commuter Coalition
Cork Cycling campaign
Republic of Bike, Cork
Cycling Without Age
Drogheda Cycling Campaign
Calm Crumlin Road, Dublin
D12 Bike Bus
Dublin Commuter Coalition
Dublin Cycling Campaign
I BIKE Dublin
Richmond Road Liveable Streets, Dublin
Living Streets, Dún Laoghaire
The Bike Hub, Dún Laoghaire & Crumlin
Better Ennis
Galway Commuter Coalition
Galway Cycle Bus
MÓR Action Oranmore, Galway 
Safer Streets Galway
Irish Doctors for the Environment
Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice
Limerick Pedestrian Network 
Limerick Cycling Campaign 
Limerick Cycle Bus 
Love 30 Campaign
Monthly Cycles
Navan Cycling Initiative
Rural Cycling Collective
Sligo Cycling Campaign
Waterford Bicycle Users Group
15 Minute Westport
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Road Safety Authority is not fit for purpose: Exhibit #3,298
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Having rowed back on lowering speed limits and reforming the Road Safety Authority, Minister Canney is now doubling down on the RSA's failed policies by scapegoating the most vulnerable on the road instead of following evidence-based measures to make our roads safer. irishcycle.com/2026/01/23/c...
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Cycling without a helmet and high-vis clothing may be made criminal offences in Ireland
— Law areound cyclists being reviewed with e-scooter proposals for helmets and high-vis. Seán Canney, the Minister of State for road safety, is considering making it illegal to cycle without …
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Very disturbing to see the cuts in active transport infrastructure investments. We're so far behind other European countries. This will have real negative consequences for public health.
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Dublin City Council’s cycling and walking funds have been cut, and it may put years of work at risk
The Green Party says the cut puts planned projects at risk.
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Dublin Live @dublinlive.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Students have observed hazardous driving behaviour at the at the Collins Avenue East/Malahide Road junction, including frequently breaking red lights, as well as stopping on and blocking pedestrian crossings
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Primary school children hold protest against dangerous driving in north Dublin
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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
So a judge says "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin?" Actually cycling is much more of a nightmare rather than cyclists. We need to focus on making walking and cycling safer on our streets. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...
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Ed Moynihan @emcreative.ie · 13/01/2026
"For years, people walking and cycling have accounted for about 40% of all road deaths and serious injuries. Those who pose the least danger are paying the highest price for a broken system, a fact Judge O’Donohoe seems to have overlooked." - Ciaran Cannon 👏
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It seems like only yesterday that the Taoiseach told us he would do "everything possible" to stop the killing on our roads. 🤷‍♂️
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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 01/01/2026
Well, that answers my question 🤦‍♂️ They've undone pretty much all the road safety measures started by the last government now.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans
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Scientists Catch Jellyfish and Sea Anemones Behaving in Surprisingly Human Ways
Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
📢This protest is brought to you by council delays & car fumes. We're into #Week20 of rolling community protests this Wed. Here's pics from the last few weeks! @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social @donnacooney1.bsky.social @karlstanley.bsky.social @dublincommuters.bsky.social @dublincycling.bsky.social
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Dublin Live @dublinlive.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Dubliner's have been disrupted by noise and air pollution throughout 2025, with Dublin City Council's the Air Quality Monitoring and Noise Control Unit offering a roadmap for how to improve
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Dublin's noisiest and most polluted areas named as complaints figures released
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Thank you to the gang from Irish Sport for Palestine for joining us for tonight's #IBikeBop - we had a blast! #CriticalMass #CriticalMassDub #Palestine #Gaza
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
As part of the CHA, we recently launched our report “Active Travel: The Magic Pill.” It shows that embedding active travel into daily life brings major health and environmental benefits for everyone. And yet, @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social continues to build active-travel 'infrastructure' like this.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16/11/2025
A number of events took place across Ireland to mark the UN's World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
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Annual day of remembrance held for road crash victims
A number of events took place across Ireland to mark the UN's World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
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Óige Ghlas - Young Greens @younggreens.ie · 16/11/2025
Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Everyone has been affected, or knows someone who has been effected, by accidents on our roads. Sadly, the number of deaths on Irish roads has been rising for the past number of years.
Candles in the shape of road markings

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
VISION ZERO
16 Nov
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
#Week15 milestone - going since 6 Aug! #Uninterrupted weekly protests by a #community under significant #traffic duress. When will our Council #meaningfully engage? To help enact DCC policy? @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @donnacooney1.bsky.social @karlstanley.bsky.social @mariesherlock.bsky.social
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
What a great night in Dundalk on Saturday! Thank you to every one who turned out and to Louth Disability Cycling Group for inviting us to the Town! #Dundalk #Louth #IBikeBop (📽️Caroline Kerley)
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A brilliant, poignant letter from by our very own Dr Caoimhe Clarke in The Irish Times this morning! #ActiveTravel #ActiveTransport
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#Week13 of consecutive community protest, a call to trial #filteredpermeability for all users #safety on #RichmondRoad. We'd rather our children walk than dodge. @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @dublincommuters.bsky.social @donnacooney1.bsky.social @karlstanley.bsky.social @mariesherlock.bsky.social
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Yet another study linking air pollution to adverse health outcomes. There is no safe level of air pollution.
science.org
Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants
Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...
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Richmond Road Dublin - Liveable Streets @richmondroadra.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#Week12 of our weekly community action calling for a trial of #filteredpermeability (barrier-based solution) for a safer #RichmondRoad! Sustainable mobility? We can’t even cross the street safely. #Safety #LiveableStreets @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @dccbeta.bsky.social
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Great initiative. Not just cities either Roads in the countryside are narrow. Every morning on my way to my daughter’s nursery, Im forced to stop or veer into ditches by SUVs that are pristine & seemingly incapable of going slightly off road. It’s hair raising seeing them charge unwaveringly at you.
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