RobOMhantáin
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Wickla lad lost in Dublin. Tech by day, family by night, #andacyclist in between.
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@IrishWheelchair
If you want to do it properly...
@ccferrie
City of Bruges put out 40 wheelchair accessible picnic tables in public places

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This guy at a construction site is happy to force parents pushing buggies out into the cycle lane, rather than parking safely around the corner, about 30m away.
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On last night's Crimecall,
@CarlaO_Brien
and
@GardaTraffic
gave us over two minutes of victim blaming pedestrians for getting themselves killed, and a fleeting 20 seconds of asking drivers to slow down. Classic windscreen view of the world.
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Big thanks to the driver for
@BrinksLtd
who held up 50-70 people on my bus and probably hundreds of other bus passengers because he couldn't be arsed to pull right into the loading bay, taking the bus lane out of service as a result.
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Right, which of you utter bastards decided to sticker these two hard working construction drivers who couldn't possibly be expected to find safe and legal parking.
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Hey
@dunnesstores
This isn't a great look for your brand image, using disabled parking bays for your delivery truck. Please get your drivers to do better, and please don't ask me to email, no further inform available. It's not my photo, I spotted it at;
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Hey
@TegreWardrobes
, why would your driver think that it’s ok to block the entire footpath like this on Herberton Road? What do you expect wheelchair users, parents pushing buggies, just about everyone to do? Really antisocial behaviour here.
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Thanks to
@JJBurkeCarSale1
and John Smyth Furniture who conspired to take a busy footpath ,a key route to the Forty Foot swimming point, completely out of action for their own convenience.
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Looks like
@lidl_ireland
are back to their bad habits at Rathmines, taking deliveries from a truck in the bus lane, delaying hundreds of bus passengers, endangering loads of cyclists, breaching their planning permission conditions. Hugely antisocial corporate behaviour.
@IBIKEDublin
@cccalom
@ccferrie
@itsmybike
@Musgraveplc
@lidl_ireland
@DublinCommuters
@dublincycling
@cyclistie
@GardaTraffic
@DubCityCouncil
And they're back - Smullen Transport at Lidl Rathmines, pushing buses and cyclists out into traffic, endangering and inconveniencing vulnerable road users to save a few minutes on their delivery.
Very anti-social practice eh
@lidl_ireland
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It's funny how often the broken down car has just enough power and control to get off the road, onto the footpath or cycle lane. God forbid that other drivers might have slow down, or turn their wheel a little bit.
@aaroadwatch
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Congratulations to Garda Janet for putting loads of kids off cycling.
Garda Janet Gough Ging, Kilkenny developed a plan to get all children in the vicinity of Kilkenny to wear helmets while cycling, with support from Kilkenny County Council. To nominate a Leading Light for 2022, please visit
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Hey
@nuhausireland
how is a wheelchair user or parent with buggy supposed to get past your site in Dundrum? Really anti-social behaviour by your crews here, especially at a time of social distancing!
@Dub14Blockers
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“A driver who struck a cyclist with their car, leaving the victim with a fractured femur and a detached retina, received a fine of €350 euro and no driving disqualification. Another driver, who left a cyclist with a spinal fracture and bleed to the brain, was fined €200 “
Over just six days this month five cyclists and pedestrians died from injuries they received when they were struck by drivers.
The oldest of the victims was a man in his 80s and the youngest an 8-year-old boy.
Where is the national response?
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Hi
@SuperValuIRL
- You don't own this bit of road in Ranelagh, so why do your staff keep putting your cones on it? As you can see, your cones are taking up a big part of the bike lane. Can you please get your staff to stop doing this? Use your car park for deliveries please.
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Once again Rob, I can only point out that it's not cyclists who kill 3-4 people each week here in Ireland, or 5-6 people each day over there in the UK. It's drivers.
Do you think you might possibly have picked the wrong group of road users to moan about?
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We're too important to use the VERY large car parks at Marlay so we just throw it up there on the footpath.
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Lots of good old fashioned victim blaming on RTE
#Crimecall
tonight. Cyclists should wear headphones because they have to concentrate, while drivers turn up the volume of their 50W per channel music
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Busy footpath and cycle lane, beside a couple of schools, but sure if a builder decides that he couldn't possibly impact other drivers, this is what happens.
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Hey
@waterwaysirelan
this tank like vehicle is becoming a bit of a fixture on the grass between Leeson and Charlemont bridges on the Grand Canal, beside the house boat there. Can you please get this removed?
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@dublinbusnews
@AlanDub13
Don't mean to have a go at the SM staff but this is a completely inappropriate response to insane driving. Honestly, DB should be taking action to get this driver off the road urgently
@ray_dublin
not asking the victim to fill in a feckin form.
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@tonyjoyce6
@ZoeOCallaghan3
@RaghallaighJ
Good point. If the bar has footage that includes yourself Zoe, you are legally entitled to a copy. You might want to submit a GDPR subject access request urgently, before the footage gets overwritten.
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Do you need the cycle lane on Upper Churchtown Road to get to school or crèche or work? Well tough shit for you, cos I’m a builder in an Audi so my convenience takes priority over everyone. Surely you don’t expect me to actually organise safe, legal parking for myself?
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Want a removals company who will make it impossible for your neighbours to walk past, especially those who use wheelchairs or push their kids in buggies?
@CrackingGet
are your only man for anti social removals service, making life just a bit harder for disabled and older people.
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Need to use footpaths or cycle lanes? Well that's tough, because drivers
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Hey
@lidl_ireland
Is there any chance you could get GSLS to stop in your very large car park and stay off the footpath when servicing your Dundrum store please?
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Who decides the hot topic for this valuable bit of advertising space? Is 'Cyclists Light Up' really the best option, for April, after clocks changed? How about 'Drivers - Phone Down' or 'Drivers - Get Out Of Bus Lane'? Time to review?
@pidge
@darragh_mor
@carolynmoore_ie
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So Dundrum village is swamped with concert goers heading to Green Day at
@MarlayPark
, and
@nuhausireland
decide to block 3/4 of the footpath while working at Bushra's nail salon, because using the side entrance would be just too much hassle.
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@ess0h
@GryphynT
@EasyBakedOven
Presumably a breach of GDPR consent requirements in not asking for explicit approval up front?
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In a week of horrendous road deaths, do we REALLY have to have
@franmcnulty
doing a piece to camera while driving, taking his eyes and hands away, while driving in the UK? What does this risky practice add, and is it worth it?
@ciarancannon
@RSAIreland
@Mark_Coughlan
The view from the
#rtept
desk as we prepare to go on air with a
#GeneralElection2024
special
@mcculld
is in London
@MiriamOCal
is in Belfast & we’ll have experts in all three studios, plus we tour from Edinburgh to London to gauge the mood as Westminster prepares for change
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@JoannaDonnellyL
@Conorthemilkman
Conor, the driver ALWAYS has the option, and indeed the moral and legal obligation, to drive in a way that doesn't endanger and intimidate other road users. Keeping to schedule is not a valid reason for endangering children, parents. If you can't drive safely, stop driving.
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Sadly
@dpdireland
have me blocked, so can someone please ask them why their driver manoeuvred right inside the bike lane in Rathmines to make his delivery just now?
@IBIKEDublin
@dublincycling
#FreeTheCycleLanes
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Hey
@lidl_ireland
, can you clarify please how burning firewood can reduce emissions by 95%? What are you comparing against?
#greenwashing
@think_or_swim
@CAugustenborg
@HannahEDaly
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Looks like a fairly obnoxious antisocial tactic by the Camden St Hotel of blocking off the loading bay with kegs, while their laundry service delays hundreds of bus passengers and endangers cyclists by unloading in the bus lane.
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Looks like
@GardaTraffic
heard the reports of car parked on
#coastalmobilityroute
yesterday and motorbikes using the bike lane, so they attended the location today and, checks notes, hassled cyclists
@dlrcycling
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So the official response from
@GardaTraffic
Terenure is that they won't prosecute drivers for using this bus lane, as it is "bad design" and "we want to keep traffic moving" (but not buses, bus passengers and cyclists obvs).
Maybe
@ray_dublin
&
@dublinbusnews
need to get vocal?
LOST - One Dublin Bus Lane - last seen during summer lockdown, when DB passengers and cyclists could travel safely along Rathfarnham Road, Terenue, stolen by evil gang of drivers of 80% empty cars, and SUVs doing school run. If found, pls return to
@ray_dublin
.
@ADublinBusLane
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Hey
@Mufc19Paul
can you get your van and truck off the footpaths on Ballinteer Avenue please? Footpaths are for people walking, wheelchair users, parents with buggies.
@Dub14Blockers
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Same nonsense again! RTE Crimecall spends their 5 min monthly slot blaming cyclists/ pedestrians for truck blind spot deaths, absolving the truck driver of responsibility, no hint of any ask for truck drivers; no 'look carefully', no 'fit extra mirrors/cameras'. JFC
@carlao_brien
On last night's Crimecall,
@CarlaO_Brien
and
@GardaTraffic
gave us over two minutes of victim blaming pedestrians for getting themselves killed, and a fleeting 20 seconds of asking drivers to slow down. Classic windscreen view of the world.
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Just around the corner, more construction related vehicles taking over the footpaths or cycle lanes. The white Audi was driving up the footpath as I passed.
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Why the 'Cyclists Dismount' sign at the Beacon
@dlrcc
@robertburns73
? Do you ever use a 'drivers, get out and push' sign? Plenty of room for cyclists on the road, so what you really need is a sign to remind drivers of this.
@dlrcycling
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There's
@conatycatering
delivering to
@nightmarketd6
, blocking most of the footpath and cycle lane, creating a hazard for people with sight loss, wheelchair users and others.
@cconaty69
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Maybe
@dublinmotorists
could ask drivers to stay behind the white lines at junctions, and not claim to be 'stuck' because the green light goes red, as it inevitably does, so that wheelchair users and others can navigate the city freely. Baggot St guy missed a cycle of the lights!
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Fair play to
@WCOBriensigns
for leaving the bike lane clear on Blackthorn Ave while working on the ad hoardings. Many thanks.
#freethecyclelanes
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Imagine having enforcement authorities who actually enforced the law?
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Maybe you need to find a coffee shop that has parking Mam, rather than blocking the cycle lane around the roundabout?
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Does CBA stand for Can’t Be Arsed Engineering? Can’t be arsed moving into the large driveway on Orwell Road or finding safe, legal parking, so he blocks the footpath, no chance at all for a wheelchair user or parent with buggy!
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@DavidLa13760854
@JJBurkeCarSale1
So stop on the road, not the footpath. They won't be there for long so traffic won't mind waiting, right?
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LOST - One Dublin Bus Lane - last seen during summer lockdown, when DB passengers and cyclists could travel safely along Rathfarnham Road, Terenue, stolen by evil gang of drivers of 80% empty cars, and SUVs doing school run. If found, pls return to
@ray_dublin
.
@ADublinBusLane
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Over 3,000 parking spaces in
@dundrumtc
, 90% of them empty at this time of the morning, and yet
@KCNORTONWHOLES1
block footpath and cycle lane to deliver to restaurants in Pembroke Quarter?
Could
@DundrumTC
show a tiny bit of respect for the local community and do better please?
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Thanks so much to the taximan who managed to block traffic from three directions to let the elderly man and two ladies out at Dundrum House pub. The pub has a car park at the rear of course.
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Hey
@NutgroveSC
bollards like this are completely useless for locking up bikes or motorbikes. What idiot thought this was a good idea? The only usable ones are the four across the middle, with the arms sticking out.
@WorldBollard
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Hey
@MusgraveMPlace
- awful anti-social behaviour from your driver at
@swanrathmines
today, blocking 80% of path, forcing this mum to pick up and carry her dog through the gap, as there was no room for them. Proper loading bay is around the corner. What instructions do you give?
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Six figure sum spent on new cycle track on Lr Kilmacud Rd, and it is being used for overnight parking (black Audi) and 'can't be bothered' parking before the paint is dry. Any action?
@EvaDowling
@DDonnellyInd
@cllrbarrysaul
@MaeveOConnellFG
@JPA_Kennedy
@DonalSmithCllr
@dlrcc
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How long before someone starts barking on about them not paying any road tax?
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@GruntledT
@cormacleane
@AlanDub13
@gavinsblog
@dublinbusnews
If there's no room to pass Cormac, then you don't pass. You don't try and squeeze a vulnerable road user off the road. First step in overtaking is to make sure you have time and space to overtake safely. This driver shouldn't be driving a bus for the foreseeable.
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Hey
@dpd_ireland
Is there any chance you could get your drivers to put their phones away when driving, before they manage to kill or injure someone?
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Hey everyone in Ballinteer, I’m a selfish git getting some building work done, so don’t plan on using the footpath over the coming weeks or months, as it is mine all mine.
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@AinemCarroll
OK, so here's the story. Presumably as a medic and as an RSA Board member, you have some understanding of the importance of evidence over anecdote. You saw a cyclist 'nearly get wiped out' and that concerns you enough to tweet it out. Let's review the evidence.
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OMG Miracles DO Happen - Thanks to the
@HeightForHire
for keeping the cycle lane clear and usable at Aldi Sandyford this morning.
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What could possibly have distracted the BMW driver?
Milltown crossroads, chaotic this morning heading to work
Driver coming out of garden, then BMW driver nearly knocking down two cyclists before a rubber necker driver actually knocked down a cyclist
One or two reports here?
@dublincycling
@DublinCommuters
@righttobikeit
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Not content with just destroying the environment with their awful plastic grass products, the lads from Fast Grass Landscaping made sure that sustainable travel was more difficult and more dangerous by blocking the path and cycle lane, leaving driveways empty.
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@ShogunPuca
@righttobikeit
@MikeyCycling
@SafeCyclingEire
@Cyclistie
@IrishCycle
@theJeremyVine
@anneramsey740
@AlanDub13
@ShaneHoganD16
Where exactly is this 25 km route with no safe passing spots?
No cyclist EVER forces you to overtake. You are solely responsible for any such decisions. If
You're going to have to cross the centre line to pass one cyclist safely, so 2 or 3 abreast is no more difficult.
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@suzyfarmington
@lidl_ireland
I propose that they use their loading bay at the rear of their premises, in line with their planning permission conditions Su? Maybe it’s your good self that needs to find something productive to do with your life?
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Great to see the shiny new footpaths and cycle lane on Blackglen Road serving their expected purpose, i.e. parking for construction crews working at local houses. Same down on Leopardstown Road.
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Cyclist obviously didn't listen to
@gardatraffic
last night, it's all his fault for only wearing one item of hiviz when he should have three or four items. If cyclist had more hiviz, driver wouldn't have been forced to drive like a criminal thug.
Shoved off the lane by BE driver squeezing between me and oncoming car followed by the most terrifying tailgating I’ve ever experienced. No more pleading/urging
@RSAIreland
. We need a portal ASAP
@GardaTraffic
@SafeCyclingEire
@ciarancannon
@jackfchambers
@MikeMcKillen
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Should have been wearing hiviz
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Continuing a trend of builders blocking footpaths. Wouldn't get a buggy or a wheelchair through there.
Third time I've seen the Kelly Bros van blocking this footpath.
The black Hyundai was outside a house with construction going on too.
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I could taste the diesel fumes right back to Landsdowne Road. Here’s eleven
@roadstoneLtd
mixers, all with engines running, taking over a key arterial route into the city to use as their staging area! Pedestrians shouldn’t have to breathe industrial fumes like this.
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Make sure you wear your plastic foam hats
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Hey
@SheridansCheese
is there any chance you could get your delivery drivers to actually park IN the loading bay and not straddling the loading bay AND the very busy bus lane please? This will avoid delaying LOADS of bus passengers.
@TFIupdates
@CEO_DublinBus
@dermotog
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Sure who needs footpaths, cycle lanes or bus lanes? Once the convenience of commercial drivers is prioritised, that's the important thing, right?
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Is there any chance you could explain the laws about parking on the footpath to your colleagues at the Russian embassy please
@GardaTraffic
. You wouldn’t get a wheelchair or a buggy through that gap,
Last night, Gardaí from Kevin Street issued this vehicle an €80 FCPN for parking on a footpath on Richmond Street in Dublin
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Don’t worry about tearing the grass to bits or anything
@redbullIRE
. Once you get to push your product on a few more kids, that’s the important thing, right?
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@omear1234
@JJBurkeCarSale1
Jeez, it's called endangering vulnerable people Fiona.
But it's funny how often it turns out to be a far right extremist, who pretends to be the great protector of Irish people, who get triggered by having to park safely.
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Brand new Courts facility built just a few years ago, and we still end up with
@gardainfo
vehicles blocking footpath and cycle lane, given bad example to other bad parkers.
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Hey
@Nicks_Fish
- could you please explain to your driver how bike lanes work? And get her to put her phone down while driving please?
#FreeTheCycleLanes
#faceitdown
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Never ceases to amaze me to see how patient in general drivers are when it comes to delays and obstructions caused by other drivers, such as the van driver stopped beside the vacant bay.
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No, the presence of a cycle lane does not make it okay to block the entire footpath, just to save the effort of opening up the gates for the site
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Hey
@Munster_Joinery
, any chance you could get your driver who passed me on the M9 northbound around 11.40 am approaching J3, with me doing 120 kmph, to put his phone down please, before he kills himself or others?
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@eoinodonnchadha
@eoinmauricedaly
There also seems to be an assumption that employers are entitled to grab whatever space they need in the employer's home, without bothering to ask for permission and definitely without paying for the space.
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Today, Staropolska blocked the busy bus lane in Rathmines at rush hour, endangering a bunch of cyclists, including school children and delaying loads of
@dublinbusnews
passengers.
Delivering to
@lidl_ireland
or Moldova shop
Frequent offender Van 171D18517 from Staropolska Bakery parked in disabled space on Great Strand Street in
#DublinTown
with no permit
#BadParking
#OperationEnable
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Hey
@amazonhelp
when two of your drivers arrange to meet up and swap over parcels, could you get them to do this somewhere with safe, legal parking, and not on the footpaths and cycle lanes of Dublin? And no, I don't want to jump through humps to get no effective response again
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@Mathiassouth
@harden19971
@HistoryHit
Why don’t they do something useful with their time, like sitting on Twitter all day moaning about achievements in fields that they know nothing about? 🙄
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@GardaTraffic
I support the travel restrictions, but the 5km limit applies only to exercise, and not to any other kind of journey. Are you sure that yiz are implementing the law correctly.
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Hey
@dpdireland
, your driver was tapping on his dash-mounted phone when he passed me on Upr Churchtown Road just after 6pm today. When I stopped beside him, he was holding another phone in his hand, with satnav running.
Do you think this is a good look for your brand?
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GAA season is back, so we're back to BSJ parents ripping up the grass verge, because walking 500m more to the Marley car park would be just out of the question
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Can anyone explain why this section of footpath at Lidl Rathfarnham, around the corner from the car park, is badly cracked? Any ideas at all?
#freightspeed
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A close call in Knocknacarra earlier this week 😮
Thankfully nobody was hurt.
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