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THE LORD MAYOR of Dublin has said the first meeting of the working group established to monitor the impact of the Dublin City Transport Plan was “very constructive” and that the effects of the plan are already evident.
“We held a very constructive first meeting today,” said James Geoghegan.
He said National transport Authority data indicated that public transport journey times have reduced by more than 20% on routes which include the North and South quays.
The transport plan is aiming to reduce traffic jams by restricting private vehicle access on certain roads and changing some routes in the hope of freeing up more space for public transport, walking and cycling and discouraging private vehicles from using the city centre as a through-route.
In addition to easing traffic, it is hoped that reducing private cars in the city centre will help to lower greenhouse gas emissions that are harmful to the climate from the transport sector. The changes came into effect late last month.
Footfall has also gone up this month, he said.
“Several retail and business representative associations were present and Dublin Town, who deploy footfall counters throughout the city indicated that footfall in the city has in fact increased in the month of September during the period of the traffic plan’s introduction,”Geoghan said in a statement following the meeting.
Representatives from Disability Persons Organisations were also at the meeting and put forward proposals about blue badge holders being able to access routes where bus-gates are present.
Bus gates are part of the plan that restricts access to the quays for regular cars.
The NTA committed to exploring that proposal, Geoghegan said.
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Ah ya, they’re Irish when it benefits them
@Niall Boyle: are you a king billy you have just demonised a nation, and guess what we bite back ,The Cromwell thing and the Scottish free preparations, need to go
@Robert Halvey: A quick look at the comments here and on many other threads tells us all we need to know. We live amongst quite a few third hand Daily Mail commenters.
It’s the lack of originality that’s really embarrassing. You weren’t even the target audience but somehow came out the other side, sounding like Sid from Rotherham; foaming at the mouth over libs, immigration, the climate crisis, non-XL Bully owners and the Irish!
@I’m a robot Robot: You do realise that radical Islamists are far right? Right?
@francis devenney: Exactly! Islamist extremists and the white far right are just different flavours of the same brand of crisps! Both hugely dangerous and oppressive.
@I’m a robot Robot: Do you want to start with Anders Breivik or the stabbings in Oulu last summer, or maybe the machine gunning into a crowd in France a few years ago, or we could go back to the Oktoberfest bombings. That’s just a few off the top of my head. I’m sure if you do your own research you will find the hundreds more.
@SerotoninWars: the ‘white far right’. Are you Jewish by any chance?
@SerotoninWars: you’re a good girl
@I’m a robot Robot: I think we have a human problem. We could get into lists of historical and present crimes by different factions and we’d probably arrive at a draw. I detest all extremists. I’m not going to get swept up in demonising all Muslims though, while an equally sinister and extreme political movement seeks to make political capital out of it.
I do despair at the number of people in the anglosphere (huge reach in Ireland clearly) who are being played like violins by autocrats and wannabe tyrants. They focus on one group (usually Muslim and non-white) to stir hate and division. They don’t actually care. None of this affects them. It’s just useful to manipulate people into being irrationally fearful so they will get behind their equally sinister group. Sure, awful incidents happen that are perpetrated by Islamic extremists but they’re pretty rare. You’d swear they were happening on every street every day according to the scaremongering, when for the most part, they are isolated incidents. If every crime by someone from a white Christian background was presented as something that represented the beliefs and worldview of all people from that background, you’d never leave your house.
It’s about proportion, rationality, evidence and as always a serious look at why the people stirring up so much fear, hate and resentment might be doing it. I don’t believe for even a second that someone like Musk gives a hoot about any victims. He’s so ill informed and posts so many false things – he can’t be taken seriously. The man has been radicalised. He is also a cynical operator hopping on the Trump bandwagon as there’s a major power grab on offer. Be terrified of ‘those people’ and give us the power to crush dissent, stamp on the free press, go after and punish anyone who disagrees or has disagreed with us and so on. They sound extremely like the Muslim extremists everyone is terrified of. As ever a liberal and democratic approach is the way forward, not picking one bunch of extremists over another. They’re both appalling choices.
@Maximilian Kolbe: Huh? You’ve lost me. I’m not Jewish as it happens (Irish atheist!) but I’m not sure what that would have to do with anything anyway?
@I’m a robot Robot: And here we reach the crux of the issue – perception! You are convinced that there’s infinitely more Muslim related incidents than white far right attacks. It’s understandable in a way as bias plays a huge part. The kind of media you intake too. ‘They’ look a bit different, are the ‘other’ and register as far more of a threat in your head. Ergo those attacks stay with you, make more of an impact and make you more fearful. One is too many of course but it’s nothing like the breakdown of society where every town is on fire, as some of the opportunists would like to make out.
Don’t get me wrong – the cases that do happen are appalling but there’s a deep rooted chauvinism in there where ‘we’ are the good guys and our extremists don’t register as a threat in the same way. The difference number wise is actually vanishingly small.
These are from a few years back. I’ll have a root for some of the very latest stats and findings. I don’t think they’ll be drastically different.
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/explainer-far-right-terrorism-in-the-west/
@I’m a robot Robot: You’re not wrong, don’t let anyone tell you that you are.
@I’m a robot Robot: 97 % off sex abuse happens by family or friends but your thick hatred off anyone that looks different is evident for all to see
Why are we offering assistance to someone who knowingly broke the law?
It isn’t someone being jailed unfairly
@Keego: exactly…. take her passport off her and leave her to her beloved British justice system in the country that she chose to live in
@and the hit’s just keep coming: I suppose that sentiment applies to the 80 million people around the world of Irish descent , many of whom are Irish citizens by right!
@and the hit’s just keep coming: we don’t leave soldiers on the battlefield, especially when it comes to the British Justice system.
Let her rot in jail. Might put a stop to their carry on.
@Dan Murphy: The hatred is so predictable and so misplaced.
@Brendan O’Brien: she and her fellow loons endangered the lives of normal people driving on the motorway
@Johnny Wilson: how?
@Brendan O’Brien: what hate she broke the law plain and simple
@Dan Murphy: She’s 77
@martin lawlor: you think she’d have a bit of cop on by that age wouldn’t you
@Dan Murphy: Danny boy I a hope you don’t have a granny because with your attitude she would be abused
@Niall Boyle: Yes of course ,you’re right,let’s stone her
@Éamonn O’Kane:
They blocked Ambulances and fire Engines, pregnant women gave birth in their cars. No hated there Brenda ye numpty.
@martin lawlor:
If your mother or father has a heart attack and the Ambulance cannot get them over these idiots, you would not be so glib or if your house was on fire and the brigade was blocked.
@Robert Halvey:
If your Granny has a heart attack and the Ambulance can not get to her ,will you say the same.Brain dead.
@Brendan O’Brien: See, you muppet didn’t make a new year’s resolution to stop being a fecking pr!ck
@Dan Murphy: Declaring that a 77-year-old woman should ‘rot in jail’ seems like hatred to me.
@Dan Murphy:Well said
@Dan Murphy: ah Danny boy what’s it they calculate about 49.9,/ of brits where bread for service
@Dan Murphy: my nanna had 8 heart attacks in her 60is lived to be 94 before she moved on , me and mine don’t fo violence, but iff anyone had ever imprisoned her there dna would vanish
@Johnny Wilson: nonsense. There is a righteous cause. The NGO said so
@Dan Murphy: If my Auntie had balls
@Éamonn O’Kane: Emergency services could not get to accidents and emergencies.
People missed essential hospital appointments.
Essential staff could not get to work.
@Dan Murphy: Danny lad are you a rent boy for the monarchy
@Dan Murphy: oh Danny I don’t do violence but you know a place called limerick affection know as stap city, I don’t need a weapon 40 years 9f scaffolding fingers and a dentist from my hood , keep abusing my people and shit is going to happen you cowardly little manboy brought up to be off service
@Brendan O’Brien: i am sure you show oodles of compassion to 77 year old ladies praying outside abortion clinics
@Brendan O’Brien: Typical of the type of person that floods the comments around here, claims they are the sensible majority…but never see this reflected when it comes to elections. They’re unaware they have been manipulated into parroting a very specific agenda. There’s a far bigger silent minority who want nothing to do with Irish people who have been Clockwork Oranged by certain groups.
Looking at this entire thread – they’ve so obviously been pulped by the British gutter press and all those highly organised American hate groups. It’s kinda funny how many of them don’t even realise how much they sound like second hand Daily Mail and Sun commenters. The same lot who trot out ‘west Brit’ while sounding like the Tommy Robinson numbskulls. The same reactionary nonsense borne out of a deep frustration with their own lives. Resentment too at anyone who tries to do anything positive. They NEED someone to hate on. It’s much easier than doing something to improve their own lot. So they let the rage burn, unaware of the extent to which they are being puppeteered by the Murdoch’s, Trump’s, Musk’s, tech bros and highly organised far right groups. Sad really.
@SerotoninWars: What a vile rant, just because some people express an alternative but credible viewpoint.
You would make a great informer if living in China
@Thomas Sheridan: The truth hurts *shrug*
@Robert Halvey:
Gowl bag. I know the McCarthy Dundons, Kenny and Dessie.Senior and junior
@Dan Murphy: So you can say i know Limerick
@SerotoninWars: well saidm too thick to realise they are being manipulated. I dont think half of them read the full article. A 77 yr old.woman goes vack tonjail because a private company didnt have an electeonic tag to fit her so back to jail. Majority on here saying good riddance. You all need to get off line and show some compassion to somebody who needs it Might make you feel better. Bunch of sad angry.men. .
@adam page: Absolutely. People are being played by autocrats and corporations. Look an old lady protesting! Start hating minions! RAGE! Meanwhile they rig the game, buy up the media and flood the space with propaganda. They are mostly unaffected by their disastrous actions while they add more zeroes to their balance sheets as they destroy the planet.
@Dan Murphy: you’re a sad little specimen Dan.
@Brendan O’Brien: It’s amusing to see the far right temper tantrums- they know she has more liathróidí than them and her life has more meaning than theirs ever will!
Nobody cares because just stop oil have been using the wrong tactics and attacking ordinary people. And her finding here irishness now cause the law is being enforced is laughable
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
I feel sorry for her but if you do the crime then you got to do the time. I’m sure she thought her age would be her get out of jail free card but unfortunately it hasn’t worked. I wonder if she will take part in another act like that when she’s fully released.
These are not protesters, they are freaks and thugs. Why interfere with the general public? Secondly how do THEY travel around? On bicycles and rowing boats?? I doubt it!!! At 77 she has free travel anyway!!!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: if I wrapped my scaffolding fingers around your ears a pulled your nose to my teeth, I don’t do violence but when you champion an establishment that locks up grannies, lad you will understand why you left the EU
@Robert Halvey: still acting as a great interest warrior.
@Robert Halvey: That comment is both ageist and sexist
We should take away her passport. Problem solved.
One of the ‘I’d do anything for Ireland except live in it’ brigade.
So many people seem perfectly to happy to watch the UK abolish the Right to Protest….. Such a very foolish position to take.
@Tricia G28: The right to protest is fine, but do you think it’s fine to just block roads whenever you please? These just stop oil people are kooks. They block ambulances, they block the everyday person getting to work, home or appointments.
@Tricia G28: Wasn’t a peep out of you when protests were banned during covid
@Tricia G28: Glueing yourself to the road preventing vehicles passing and throwing paint on things that do not belong to you are not protests.
@Tricia G28: what is your definition of protest?
@marklars81: farmersprtotest all the tim blocking the motorways. Some numptys on here. Its big oil companies who dont have your interest at heart influencing the british governement to charge these protesters. All you amadans love to be enraged and pick on oaps.
@adam page: The DPP decide who to charge.
The general public would have been enraged if they got off scot free as they are the people this affected most.
@Gary Kearney: the cps bing chatges but if you think they havent been lobbied by big oil infont thinj yiu understand how politics actually works. Theyre making an example out of them..
Il saybl it again. Bunch of usefful amadans on here who cant see when they’re beng manipulated.
@Ger Whelan: so farmers are ok to block motorways. Expain that to me.
@adam page: Point out where I said farmers were ok to block Motorways?
@Ger Whelan: kinda is Ger.
Jailed for disrupting and endangering the safety of thousands of motorists. Let her do her time. Good riddance.
@Unridden Ana:
I was going to ask you a question Ana, but for the life of me i can’t remember what it was.
So she broke the law.refused to wear monitor due to medical issues?Did her actions in the UK.Am I missing something but what has holding an Irish passport have to do with it?
@morgan duggan: yes, you are. The private company that supplies and fits the tags couldn’t find one to fit her. She didn’t refuse to wear one.
People who say JSO are disruptive need to look at the damage extreme weather due to climate change has done and will continue to do. The carnage in Spain last year for just one example.
@Ronan Mc: And throwing soup over a painting has helped ?
@Ronan Mc: There’s ways to deal with that. Blocking motorways and stopping emergency services is not one of them. What are you doing to combat climate change? F uck all is my guess.
@Ronan Mc: Some people can’t see beyond the end of their noses.
@Tony: How do emergency services deal with streets blocked with feet of mud and piles of cars from floods for weeks on end?
JSO aren’t the first group to block roads. The emergency services has dealt with temporary disruptions like these since the year dot.
@Ronan Mc: And throwing soup on a painting has helped?
@Brendan O’Brien: you’re one of those people.
@Ronan Mc: And you proof of what happened in Spain being the direct cause of Climate Change.
Also what is JSOs fix for the problem that oil causes?
They don’t have any!
Physchiatric care prb best option
That’ll teach her the terrorist rip!
a nut job
Wait, she’s Irish, get her solicitor to bail her out that’s what there paid for.
All my family on both my mothers and fathers side moved to Britain during the economic depression when Ireland became the free state and my cousins regard their self as British Citizens now
Why can’t she be tagged the same way as a dog is tagged. A sub cutaneous tag
These absolute tools honestly deserve to be run over for their nonsense. If the British government wanted to stop these people from wrecking their havoc on the motorways around the country, they should copy what Milei did to those student protestors and union cronies when they started blocking the roads in Argentina – if you engage in a protest of any kind which blocks either people or traffic on a public space from getting through, you are immediately stripped of your welfare benefits and your government pension. Most of these Just Stop Oil clowns are either unemployed or retired. If the British government copied Milei, I guarantee their numbers would drop like flies because let’s be honest, they only reason they’re doing this is because they have nothing better to do in their lives.
At that age , she is better saying her prayers to her maker rather that causing so much disruption and chaos never mind the expense she caused !
There are better channels to use than the one she picked to air her voice !
She certainly won’t be the last one to wave the Irish Passport when it suits her. From even a security perspective, it must ring alarm bells for other countries that we give away out citizenship so willy nilly. As an Ireland citizen, anyone is able to travel visa free to 179 countries.
The brits never show any decency locking up grannies big hard men I disagree, nothing only a shower ot rent boys for big money
@Robert Halvey: Yeah they should have a revolving door justice system like ours, whereas even for murder you would be very unlucky to get 10 years. A justice system that is afraid of the little scrotes terrorising our towns cities, and a justice system where the Gardai can’t even be bothered with low level crime.
@Robert Halvey: whaaa. Why do you post on a public forum.
Love the French, here is the French Brenda
@Dan Murphy: Thank you, Dan. Very cool!
Stop annoying people trying to get to work it does zero for your cause plus you won’t go to jail
Fantastic to see
Be careful lads, Halvey is a Hardshaw. The only thing he could drop is his pants .Lol
Goshites
It’s best to keep her locked up, she can’t do any harm in jail.
@Tim Higgins: oh grow a brain mate.
The medias job is to make the protesters look like the opressors for Big oil
Daft as a brush!
Every Irish can have a British passport, so what the big deal? This person is out of touch with reality and needs to taught a lesson.
Is she anything to Rory and can she launch a good throw in?
I don’t know what type of help they’re looking for from the Irish government. She committed a crime, didn’t receive a ridiculous sentence in a harsh country for prisons, and she simply must pay her dues. I imagine she would likely continue further disruptive protests when she is free again. Though it’s strange they haven’t an alternative to the ankle tag as I’m sure it doesn’t suit many people for various reasons. Find an alternative for house arrest and let her finish her time.
If she tried that BS in China, who are probably the biggest polluters on the planet, she’d never see the light of day again.
Do they not have electronic tags in ear ring form?
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