Posts by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
(DIR) Post #AWXjPRXR2FeN9w0TLs by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-06-10T07:55:34Z
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To get people out of cars, it's absolutely to get the elderly on bicycles. I'm not talking about people in their 90s; but getting the 50-to-80s cadre cycling will change society. It will end forever the image of the cyclist as an arrogant young man, and make cycling obviously what it is: functional, sensible, the most essential way to save our climate, and to save our health #Cycling #Age #OvertonWindow
(DIR) Post #AWbxHsU7Tc6dNFjv72 by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-06-12T08:10:10Z
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@EugeneMcParland The boycott of Russia has lost its drive – yet if we don't boycott a country seeking to bully its way to being an empire, we'll be next; we should remember that and act accordingly #BoycottRussia
(DIR) Post #AWuoCiB1zkwcGtM6yW by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-06-21T08:17:41Z
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Martyn Turner on #climatecrisis
(DIR) Post #AXLh6GVD00wz8MJMyO by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-04T11:13:58Z
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@matthannon Is it being starved of funding that it could so invest?
(DIR) Post #AXxgu8OSI8sqDLYqps by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-22T06:31:12Z
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Extraordinary that there's virtually no coverage in western media of China's extraordinary expansion of its railway network, and no questions about why we can't or don't do the same #Railway #China #Europe #US
(DIR) Post #AXz53qwcc58h3EfYES by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-23T08:05:48Z
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Oddly, nothing about this in the newspapers (that I've found on a desultory Sunday morning trawl) - virtually every delivery cyclist in Dublin walked silently through the streets to Parnell Street yesterday, then convened on a block in Dominick Street where a stolen bike was showing up on its tracker. They got the bike back; no violence, no noise #DeliveryCyclists #NonviolentAction #PassiveResistance #Ireland #Brazil https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/156poqk/ok_who_ordered_that_many_takeouts_in_this_weather/
(DIR) Post #AY0suHYc8gaIWchUjQ by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-24T08:09:24Z
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@matthannon How would lowering car numbers in England cause a heatwave in Greece? Surely it's the millions of cars spewing fumes that do that?
(DIR) Post #AY3uctIZrUHfkQuk5o by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-25T19:12:49Z
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@Trilobyter Are you anything to Dick Cotter, Joe Cotter and Tom Cotter of 32 St Anne's Road, Drumcondra, who were out in Jacob's in 1916?
(DIR) Post #AY42DrYpz7Q4kh62Pg by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-25T20:37:56Z
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@Trilobyter Sorry, I must have addressed this to the wrong person; thought I was sending it to someone called Cotter!
(DIR) Post #AY43anQ3eJMUWPUNpg by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-25T20:39:52Z
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@Trilobyter Indeed, thought I was addressing @ProfTomCotter - blame the effect of going to see Barbie today, in between writing up accounts of the activities of various people including the said Cotters
(DIR) Post #AY44W2LqnvkZL5odV2 by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-07-25T21:03:38Z
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@Trilobyter @ProfTomCotter Ha, there's little to be found about them! Only one made a pension application; Dick (a lieutenant in C Coy 2nd Battalion Dublin Brigade) died of TB aged 38, having been involved in setting up the new state's Labour department, Tom Cotter died aged 28 of nephritis… they'd grown up for their first few years in England, sons of an Internal Revenue inspector, but on widowhood their mother brought them home to Dublin
(DIR) Post #AYVxJ2fRF21JXcHaAC by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-08-08T07:54:43Z
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@StephZihms Or use #Prizmo on the phone
(DIR) Post #AYp5UwSjKhokY5sXho by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-08-17T13:15:31Z
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Super! Landlord fined €7k for ditching out family and reletting place much dearer https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/landlord-who-evicted-family-illegally-then-rented-out-house-again-at-higher-rate-ordered-to-pay-7000-in-damages/a748163255.html
(DIR) Post #AZKZt8VxCCvzP1b5E0 by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-09-01T17:01:49Z
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Biggest mushroom in the word grows in Zambia, where mushroom-hunting is a big thing https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/new-covid-strain-could-causing-27631222
(DIR) Post #AZZe4nGkvwUi1fxoVU by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-09-08T15:53:29Z
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Belgians to get 27c per kilometre for cycling to work, or €54 per month https://www.brusselstimes.com/358636/all-belgians-entitled-to-bicycle-allowance-for-commute #Paywall
(DIR) Post #AZfHzXK3vC59MX1bpA by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-09-11T08:48:10Z
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"I would need to live in the house for another 87 years before I could justify the initial outlay [on insulation] from a purely financial perspective (although the grant would give me back 33 years). It looks like we’ll be investing in a few Aran jumpers before we go about improving the house’s efficiency" https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2023/09/11/grants-and-the-cost-of-home-insulation/
(DIR) Post #AvJcgqrDbpZwEv9MTQ by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2025-06-20T05:37:51Z
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Nearly 4,000 council houses are empty in Ireland, in the middle of a crisis of homelessness https://www.thejournal.ie/aontu-leader-claims-social-housing-waiting-list-figures-are-out-by-population-of-tullamore-6737494-Jun2025/ #Homes #Homelessness #Councils #CouncilHouse
(DIR) Post #AvKoqW4n7Y81IApjgO by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2025-06-20T12:52:34Z
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I was surprised, briefly visiting Paris, to find it less of a cycling paradise than I'd been led to expect. Quite a carry city still#carbrain
(DIR) Post #AwigojEdjBsoYojWIi by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2025-08-01T06:49:43Z
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For all the people saying "It's Hamas doing this, not my people", here's an Irish surgeon back from Gaza describing what he saw https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/07/31/an-irish-surgeon-in-gaza-i-have-seen-tiny-bodies-ripped-apart-children-eating-grass/
(DIR) Post #AxaQQoYhB2oTOGWc8u by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2025-08-27T05:44:53Z
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The monstrous Israeli double-tap attack on a Gaza hospital that killed another 5 journalists https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c36jdze5r4ko