Brian Leddin

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up.

Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views?

Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

100%

Somebody needs to get the ball rolling on an exodus. I proposed it a few times when I was in the Greens but they dragged their heels with many arguing that the party needed to stay on it because the journalists were there. An unjustifiable reason, in my view. At least they're off it now.

Finally, there's a focus on politicians using X / Twitter and it looks like it's becoming less acceptable for them to use the platform. But politicians use it often because they know the journalists are on it. Media needs to look in the mirror.

@drivetime.bsky.social

The power of a headline.

Government Urged To Give Timeline On Shannon Airport Rail Link - Clare FM Government Urged To Give Timeline On Shannon Airport Rail Link - News % Clare FM

Good to hear this raised in the Dáil.

www.clare.fm/news/governm...

About 1.5km. But looking at it again the railway curves away from the airport so there would only be a marginal benefit in moving the station further up the track, and probably wouldn't be worth it.

Moving train station closer to Kerry Airport ‘a no-brainer’ for connectivity The idea of relocating Farranfore train station closer to Kerry Airport has been raised by a Kerry Councillor who said Farranfore should serve as a national template for rail, road, and flight connect...

I find myself agreeing with Councillor Healy Rae. Integrating the rail, road, and air infra makes a lot of sense. One other thing I'd add is the need for passing loops / double track on sections of the Mallow to Tralee railway to ramp up its capacity.

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High tide in Limerick City this morning. The construction works are flood defences. They'll be needed sooner rather than later.

BREAKING: Spanish firm announces plans for 70 jobs as it expands into Limerick city centre Chipmaking company Openchip set to open at landmark building in heart of city

This really does sound like great news for the city. Credit to all who were involved in making it happen. I'm not aware of the company but these read as very high skilled roles. Ideally, most of those who fill them will live in or near the city centre.

www.limerickleader.ie/news/breakin...

The political and societal will are the hard part!

On the Late Debate on RTÉ radio one just now Senator Dee Ryan said the Foynes Road project is higher priority than connecting Shannon Airport to the rail network.

Revised National Development Plan delivers €1bn for Cork rail expansion and new stations More than €1bn will accelerate Cork’s commuter rail expansion as the updated NDP shifts transport spending towards a new 1:1 ratio

Politicians in Counties Clare and Limerick have some explaining to do. It was announced today that Cork is getting massive rail investment through the National Development Plan while the Midwest is getting nothing at all. Did our politicians even lobby for it?

www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

My old phone gave up the ghost but have to say I'm fairly impressed with the camera on the new one! Beautiful night out there.

I'd be interested in hearing a credible approach to reducing emissions without reducing fossil fuels. Maybe she means that she's going to focus on agricultural methane and methane from drained peat bogs.

Early morning on the Shannon

It was recently updated.

Those are just the consultation drawings but there's a note that the junction should be designed in accordance with the Cycle Design Manual. So long as that's done I don't see what the issue is.

Thank you! 🙏

I found the drawings. I'm pretty sure this is the type of junction that the cyclist that was interviewed is not happy with. This design is not appealing to sport cyclists but it is fundamentally safer. It really is disingenuous of the cyclist to characterise this as giving priority to cars.

I haven't seen the design. Can you point me to it?

That is a possibility. I'd have to see the design myself though. The prioritising cars at junctions point is often made by that subset of cyclists I referred to earlier. It is usually misleading and a reason to rubbish a scheme, when in fact it's following Dutch cycle design principles.

There's a subset of cyclists who tend not to want bike lanes. They tend to be faster, sport cyclists, rather than children, elderly, etc and are happy to mix it with vehicles or cycle in a hard shoulder. Bike lanes are for making cycling attractive to people who aren't as confident / skilled as them

This was safer? I doubt that very much.

"what was once a safe road"

What does that mean?

Was it safe for children walking and cycling, for example?

The Land Calls Again The fields where freedom once took root now call for protection

There is nobody that I'm aware of who is joining the dots between our economic model and the destruction of nature quite as well as Aislínn Kelly is. This thoughtful and articulate opinion piece deserves to be widely read.

open.substack.com/pub/aislinna...

Thanks Conor

Thanks Bill.

Thanks Billy!

Councillors challenge Mayor on Patrickswell purchase MAYOR John Moran received strong criticism this week over a proposed multi-million euro commitment, from his discretionary mayoral fund...

Some councillors are giving Mayor Moran a hard time over the purchase of the land. I shouldn't need to point out that the Mayor used his own discretionary funds to purchase it. It isn't really anything to do with them. Having said that, the zoning of it will be.

www.limerickpost.ie/2025/09/24/c...