Peter O'Regan

Father, husband, brother, son. Scientist, history buff, local food enthusiast. Cranky when tired. Don't expect chats before 1st coffee. Driver. #andacyclist

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The importance of loading the trailer correctly.

https://t.co/aLvZS0aWmR

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

A recent 5yr Belgian study shows the BIG impact of increasing vehicle weight on road deaths & injuries.

When a person on a bike or walking is hit by a pick-up, the risk of serious injury increases by 90% compared to a car.

Risk of death goes up by 200%.

https://t.co/1q7zo4g9Bi

[Natalia Barbour @natalia_barbour]

Pretty shocking that a bright jacket will not protect you from an impact of a 4,000lb vehicle operated by a driver who is looking at their phone.

[What If Cork @what_if_cork]

The way this building has been treated (and the nearby residents) by @UCC has been a disgrace.

[Mike McKillen - System Change for Climate @MikeMcKillen]

Let’s have the FCPN data for the most recent proposal to have every Garda member spend 30 min/day on traffic law enforcement. There should be a massive uptick. Show us that data.

[Frank O'Connor @frank_oconnor]

How this priceless gem is allowed to be a glorified car park & a builders dumping ground is beyond me

Bonded Warehouses, Custom House, Port of Cork #DerelictIreland

[Save Cork City @savecorkcity]

Great to see the cut stone from the recent damage to Parliament Bridge being removed from the river.

Fingers crossed that this protected structure will be repaired carefully by competent and skilled craftspeople

#HistoricQuays

#LOVEtheLEE not the WALLs

#SaveCorkCity

[What If Cork @what_if_cork]

We and others have pointed out @corkcitycouncil neglect of the new work on MacCurtain St to the point where businesses on the St have to pay extra to maintain it themselves. Great work @PrioryCoffeeCo but Cork City Council needs to get their act together.

[Priory Coffee Co. @PrioryCoffeeCo]

@The_VQ_Cork @corkcitycouncil @corkcitycentre @pure_cork @tohaveandtohol5 @AaronMansworth @RayKelleherCork @gallagherscork @cork_coffee @RogerDRussell @corkonaforkfest @oliver_moran @Joekavanaghcork @jmaher0 Thanks guys, Priory Coffee Co. carried out the new planting, at our cost, as the area was looking unloved! There's almost no soil in the planters (it was mostly subsoil & rubble) The plants may not last long due to the shallow soil conditions but let's enjoy them for the summer!

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

1/ Social psychologists long ago proved something utterly terrifying

People will disregard WHAT THEY SEE WITH THEIR OWN EYES to conform to what other people say

In a classic 1951 experiment by Solomon Asch, people looked at a picture of three lines & were asked to choose which

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

OK people, let's just stop this right here!

the biggest killers of birds are CATS 🐈‍⬛

🏙️SKYSCRAPERS are next

wind turbines are ... last on the list 💚

✨Please RT✨

[Frank O'Connor @frank_oconnor]

FFS instead of homes we get a decade of dereliction next to bus station
Well done successive owners NAMA, Cork City Council & Tetrarch Capital for your role in destroying our beautiful city
It's definitively time for use it or lose it

Parnell Place, Cork City
#DerelictIreland

[Bob Flavin @BobFlavin]

A very angry rant:

For years I have told the @RSAIreland that training is the answer for all the traffic collisions. Retests should be required when you have more than 6 points.
Punishments should be severe for drunk/drug-driving
Every ten years you must resit the driving test in full
New drivers should be tested on motorways and dual carriageways.
Fail the driving test more than three times and the instructor should be examined.
Driving instructors should take a real advanced driving course that tests and improves their skills.
Newly qualified drivers should have to sit on the same advanced driving course.

Years of targeting speed through costly TV ads and the numbers are dismal. Any experienced driver in Ireland at the moment is full of horror stories of the madness on the roads.
We see it every day now, near misses, driving in the centre lane looking at a phone, inappropriate speeding, aggression and near-zero policing from a lack of Traffic Corp, and speed vans which are having no effect.

The increase in road deaths is now the worst in Europe and what I'm saying seems to fall on deaf ears as I'm only moaning unlike the "journalists" that are paid to put out messages that no one is listening to.

We should be in a great position with a small population and a sea border but we don't know what causes the crashes because GDPR problems that the department has hidden behind for years.

Meanwhile, we are at the bottom of the table and that's the reality.

[Gone to Bluesky @IrishCycle]

Touring cyclist hit by van driver as car passed in opposite direction on rural Galway road https://t.co/popEyeFbYg

[PARC RoadSafetyGroup @PARCroadsafety]

Thanks to Minister @EamonRyan for informing that he's approved a new policy to address issue of learner drivers continually renewing a permit without ever sitting a driving test and conveying to RSA that a learner must sit a test before they are eligible for additional permit.

[Dave Tobin @davidtobin100]

The obsession with shared space from @corkcitycouncil is well behind the standards expected in projects like this.

The Irish Cycling Campaign @cyclistie have raised our concerns about this with the NTA in recent weeks.

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

Keep banging on about this👇

[Michael Wall @_salvagem]

Zero fucks given. Off to church, no less. Everyone else is doing it, so....
#MacCurtainSt

[Ciaran Cannon @ciarancannon]

.@kierancuddihy suggesting on @TheHardShoulder that e-bikes are only replacing conventional bikes in modal share on our roads. A lot of good research suggests that e-bikes are mostly replacing cars. https://t.co/S4C3BPFINs.

[Dublin Commuters @DublinCommuters]

This is an excellent result if it follows through!!

The RSA simply cannot function as intended, while it’s reliant on the volume of cars on the road for its funding

We’ve been campaigning for reform for quite a while, and it looks like it might happen!!