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hot wheelsARE TWO WHEELS better than four? They’re certainly better than no wheels at all. The ‘get on your bike’ message is to be conveyed in National Bike Week events across the country.
We’ve listed just a small selection of them below (note: the days refer to this coming week, unless otherwise specified). The whole show is an initiative from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to encourage more people to cycle – check out bikeweek.ie for the full list of events.
Carlow: Tuesday, all day, Scoil Naomh Pádraig, Tullow – ‘Bling your bike’ competition and bike repair workshop
Cavan: Today, 10am, The Courthouse, Cavan town – Come and Try cycling for children with special needs and their siblings
Clare: Monday, 11am, The Square, Ennis – Guinness World Record attempt to boil an egg using the energy from pedalling a fixed bike
Cork: Wednesday, 7.30pm, Library, Grand Parade – Follow the rickshaw for a mystery guided tour in the city
Donegal: Tomorrow, 11am, Dore Centre, Falcarragh – Family fun relay event
Dublin: Friday, 9pm, Grand Canal Cycle Way – Evening cycling event
Galway: Today, 4pm, Claddagh Hall, Galway city – Family fun day and children’s races
Kerry: Wednesday, 7.30pm, South Square, Sneem – Cycle on the Green
Kildare: Today, all day, Punchestown – Cycling Ireland Sprocket Rocket family cycling festival
Kilkenny: Saturday, 23 June, 1.30pm, The Parade, Kilkenny city – Bike Check Up!
Laois: Tomorrow, 11.45am, The Square, Durrow – Family fun cycle on new south Laois Tourism Bike Trail
Leitrim: Friday, all day, Ballinamore, Leitrim – Family cycling day and safety awareness training
Limerick: Wednesday, 7.30pm, City Hall – ‘Limerick City Wall’ bicycle tour
Longford: Saturday, 30 June, noon, The Mall, Longford – Family fun cycle day
Louth: Thursday 10pm, Dundalk – Midsummer Night cycle (pre-registration needed)
Mayo: Today, 10am, Ballina Town soccer pitch – Get off the couch and yer bike family cycle in Beleek Woods
Meath: Tuesday, 7pm, Retail park, Athboy Road, Dundalk – Race cycling for beginners
Monaghan: Today, 10am, Peter’s Lake, Monaghan town – Toddlers’ trike-athlon
Offaly: Tomorrow, 3pm, Horan’s Shop, Newbridge St, Birr – Family fun cycle 10km
Roscommon: Sunday, 24 June, 9am, The Square, Roscommon – Roscommon Grand Tour
Sligo: Wednesday, noon (boys), 2pm (girls), Slish Wood – Taste of mountain biking for teenagers
Tipperary: Thursday, 10.30am, Foróige Youth Centre, Banba Square, Nenagh – Mountain bike orienteering trek (13-16yrs)
Waterford: Today, noon, Walton Park, Dungarvan – Family extravaganza with stunt riders, entertainment, cycling events
Westmeath: Today, 3pm, Market Square, Mullingar – Bloomsday ‘Bike Style’ competition
Wexford: Wednesday, 11am, Wexford County Hall, Top Car Park, Carricklawn – free safe cycle check and basic cycle skills
Wicklow: Primary school bike week – details from local schools
Sleep walking into a firmly controlled disaster!
@Colette Kearns: those newbies oblivious to whats coming!
Cash is still king folks keep using it as much as possible
A cashless society is a dark road to totalitarian control. They will know where you spend your money and how you spend your money. If your political ideology does not align with theirs they simply freeze you out of the system just like Canada did. Infactvits already happened here
@GreenFlag: not really about control. But the sane person who n
@GreenFlag: not really about control. But the same person who makes your argument will go shopping in Tesco with their club card (shoes Tesco everything you buy and how often you buy and your demographic breakdown) as well as accepting cookies on websites and allowing meta to look
At you personal info. But it’s the paying with card which is the bad thing .. clearly ..
@Ciaran: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is coming; plans are well advanced in the US,UK, EU and elsewhere. These currencies will be programmable, i.e. where, when and on what you spend ‘your’ money will be monitored and controlled. This is not the same as voluntarily sharing meta data with some social media platform.
Research CBDCs and understand a cashless society is not good for the ordinary citizen.
@GreenFlag: why do you even have a phone then?
Hardly surprising as contactless is easier and safer for those paying, plus merchants don’t have the costs and security concerns of handling cash.
@Stephen Kearon: More like merchants have to declare all transactions.
Should this article not be marked as “Sponsored By BOI or AIB” ?…….Cash is KING.
@Eddie Feeney:
They could at least sponsor the stock image
@Sandra Anderson: and that’s a bad thing?
Cashless is the way to go. Get rid of the blackmarket and the brown envelopes.
And what do you propose in its place? One thing is for sure, the only market losing out on this is the black market
Of course. That is what the educational system, (run by mercenary merchants have told them to do), is anyone surprised? I know I am not. I’ve been warned about this sort of thing by the conspiracy theorists. Ha ha ha. How about using all those critical faculties you were told you had, when you started at university. Pity you seem to have lost them on the way out and gained a loan that you are unlikely to be ever able to pay back. You are now a criminal in one country if not another. Welcome to the new world renowned among us, by us, and don’t bother to ask for justice. You should know by now you are not going to get it on the journal. When all hope is lost. That’s when you will have a chance to chat with the most high. Ain’t that good news?
I love cash and will only use cash
Happy to use the card cept for the bank fees.
@der Fussballmeister: What bank fees are you referring to? Contactless payments are free (/included with your account servicing fees) with all retail banks in Ireland. ATM withdrawals are not.
The only reason I dont fully go cashless, and even more so, contactless, is that it is too handy. So handy in fact that people can forget and just keep tapping. Call me old fashioned, but I continue to take my weekly cash out so I can see exactly where it goes and how much I have left for the rest of the week. It has nothing to do about worrying about the New World Orders or that the banks and shops and government knowing what I spend my money on…..just me, myself, keeping control of where it goes.
I buy all my tinfoil hats with cash. Can’t beat it.
Heading for cashless
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