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The Luas was spotted blocking Dolphin Road in Kilmainham this morning. Laura Byrne/The Journal

Cyclist taken to hospital after 'minor' incident with Luas near Dublin city centre

The cyclist has been taken to hospital for “precautionary measures” but is not believed to be seriously injured.

LAST UPDATE | 29 Jan

A CYCLIST HAS been taken to hospital with non-serious injuries following a “minor” incident with a Red Line Luas near Kilmainham in Dublin.

The Luas came to a halt near the Suir Road stop, blocking Dolphin Road after making contact with the cyclist.

According to a Luas spokesperson, there was “minor contact between a tram and a cyclist” near the Luas stop.

“A bystander called the emergency services, and the cyclist has gone to hospital for precautionary reasons,” the spokesperson added.

In a statement, Luas services warned passengers earlier this morning that Red Line services are “operating with delays due to an incident at Suir Road”.

“We apologise for any inconvenience caused,” the statement said.

The Red Line has since been cleared, and services are operating normally.

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    Mute J Ven
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    Jan 29th 2025, 9:45 AM

    Wouldn’t it be good for one of the world’s richest countries to have 4-5 underground metro lines in its capital?

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    Mute Lei tatt
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    Jan 29th 2025, 9:55 AM

    @J Ven: it is nowhere near as rich as the official inflated figures are showing

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    Mute Orban Orban
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    Jan 29th 2025, 10:16 AM

    @J Ven: the population of Dublin couldn’t sustain 5 underground lines. Massive up keep and maintenance involved to keep underground lines running.

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    Mute Ckeego
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    Jan 29th 2025, 10:29 AM

    @J Ven: Stop talking sense, J. The same might be said for motorway flyovers avoiding junctions such as Bray and Red Cow. Or perhaps more than one lane to join the Cork Road. But in fairness, they did give planning to dozens of industrial estates and 4 huge shopping centres right beside the ring road around the city

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    Mute Freda Peeple
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    Jan 29th 2025, 10:52 AM

    @Lei tatt: well the 6 billion given to NGO’s would be a nice start to proceedings, of the 2 billion to house the asylum sneakers. 8 billion right there to actually better our country instead of handicapping it.

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    Mute The Firestarter
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    Jan 29th 2025, 11:09 AM

    @J Ven: We are rich with Government Ministers and TDs, but certainly not in infrastructure.

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    Mute J Ven
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    Jan 29th 2025, 11:11 AM

    @Orban Orban: Why not? Poland can, and they are much bigger with a bigger population but a much much lower GDP per capita, even adjusted to GNI as we do here, Albania has a metro line, are you saying they can afford it but we can’t? That’s the mentality I don’t get, there are plenty of third-world countries with metro lines and better road infrastructure, but here,m there’s always a but: the ground is too rocky, the maintenance costs are too high, we’re a small country. Paname is even smaller and they have a Metro system, I could go on.

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    Mute P. V. Aglue
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    Jan 29th 2025, 11:20 AM

    @J Ven: we’d be one of the poorest after it was paid for, it would make the children’s hospital look like a steal

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    Jan 29th 2025, 11:44 AM

    @Lei tatt: Prove it!

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    Jan 29th 2025, 11:47 AM

    @Freda Peeple: A large amount of NGOs are service providers for the state. Who pay the NGOs very poorly for those services.
    Other NGOs are fulfilling obligations under EU law and UN Conventions. Again work the state would have to do.
    The immigrant snipe, I will ignore.

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    Jan 29th 2025, 11:50 AM

    @The Firestarter: We don’t have enough ministers in reality. Not for them to focus on the issues closely enough.
    Same with Junior Minister who should be focused on one area.
    People complain the ministers don’t know what is happening in their own departments, true as they are stretched too thinly across various areas.

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    Mute Orban Orban
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    Jan 29th 2025, 11:56 AM

    @J Ven: Warsaw has two lines and a population of nearly 2ml. Albanias line was closed years ago and replaced with busses. Dublins population is not high enough to maintain as you said 4 to 5 lines. Other than rush hour traffic the system wouldnt generate enough money.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 12:50 PM

    @J Ven: the problem with Dublin is that the housing density is too low to justify a metro, it’s changing but slowly. I also wouldn’t trust our public service to deliver a project of that magnitude and the person heading up the metro project was head of the most expensive one worldwide so you could imagine what the cost would be here.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 12:59 PM

    @Freda Peeple: What could you expect with a cabal of Student Union activists running the country?

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    Jan 29th 2025, 1:04 PM

    @The Firestarter: A metro line would vastly reduce the amount of taxis and cars using the Toll Bridge at €3.20 a throw, I think it’s all about revenue and nothing else!

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:02 PM

    @Orban Orban: Amsterdam does with a similar population as does Rotterdam with less than half the population of Dublin.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:16 PM

    @The next small thing: This is a valid answer, not that “we’re not as rich as you think” nonsense, as much poorer countries have metro lines. This may be, but public transport as it is today is one of the highest in Europe, perhaps for that same reason, longer routes due to low house density for a city. But I think people wouldn’t mind to keep paying the same inflated transport prices for a state-of-the-art service, maybe not 4-5 lines, but maybe 3 may do, a circular line like in London connecting train stations coming from Cork/Limerick, Maynooth, Darts, Belfast and the luas can be one as well as the Metro North. One thing that Dublin can do because we simply have the money is an underground road network in the city centre, Brussels have one and they are about the same size as Dublin, Madrid has one, poorer countries have one. a series of tunnels with no tolls to alleviate the lack of space above. No more lanes can be added to the canals, but an underground network with key exits can aliviate traffic like in other cities.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:24 PM

    @J Ven: We’d probably have cyclists using the metro tunnels.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:43 PM

    @Gavan Hogan: why not? Drivers use cycle lanes and park on the footpath all the time. Fair is fair.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:47 PM

    @Gary Kearney: OMG are you for real, seriously for a country our size we have far too many Ministers, and far too many TDs. Ministers are nothing more than figure heads, and believe you me if we had zero ministers it would not make one bit of difference to the day today running of the country.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 3:42 PM

    @Dermot Blaine: Cyclist use the footpath and chain their bikes to anything they feel like!
    If we are playing whataboutary!

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    Jan 29th 2025, 3:55 PM

    @The Firestarter: Having been involved in various campaigns and seeing different minister in action.
    A good minister works crazy hours, keeps lines of communication, with the people in their field, open and listens to the experts.
    Some of the departments have too many fields of interest and that makes it harder for people to be heard.
    That why extra ministers keeps the lines of communications open and also show where the buck stops. As it cannot be lost in civil service paperwork!

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    Jan 29th 2025, 3:56 PM

    @Gary Kearney: I’m not playing whataboutery, I’m saying eejits are eejits, irrespective of what vehicle they choose.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 4:29 PM

    @Yleennoc: you can compare Dublin to this country and that country. We just dont have the high numbers to have a system like they have in Amsterdam. 8 ml tourists came to Ireland last year. 25ml went to Amsterdam alone in 2024. That’s not including the people who go to Amsterdam for the day who live in Holland with a good train network to get to Amsterdam for the day. Plus Amsterdam’s night life means transport can make money at all times of the day. People won’t start bussing it so Dublin to use our metro.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 4:48 PM

    @J Ven: ?? we are not so stop thinking we are

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    Jan 29th 2025, 6:49 PM

    @The Firestarter: that’s what the (un)civil service are supposed to be doing. the ministers are irrelevant to the day to day running of the state.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 6:59 PM

    @J Ven: For some reason it would never work so we shouldn’t bother.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 11:43 PM

    @Orban Orban: Unfortunately that’s true. Due to our poor planning we have allowed very low density in our cities. We could however build more tram lines, they don’t require high density & cost less. Bordeaux had 5 tram lines despite having a metropolitan population that’s a bit lower than Dublin.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 9:43 AM

    Hopefully just an innocent mechanical issue & NOT an accident with injuries, fingers crossed

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:02 PM

    Luas travels on a fixed line. Conclusion…cyclist at fault.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 1:36 PM

    Effing cyclists saw one today blow through a red light at a crossroads without hesitation then has the audacity to arm wave at a car turning onto the road ahead, absolute arrogance of the highest order.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:36 PM

    @Tom L: does that mean they deserve to be hit by a Luas? look at all the crazy sh*t motorists do, like running over and killing elderly pedestrians every few days in Ireland, yet they don’t seem to attract the same kind of ire as cyclists who mostly only harm themselves.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:46 PM

    @Tom L: I stopped at a pedestrian crossing cos the light was for cars on the Navan Road this morning, two drivers broke the red. Gobshitz are in all vehicles and none.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:46 PM

    @Tom L: was on m50 today and was overtaken by at least 20 cars breaking the speed limit

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:50 PM

    @Dermot Blaine: light was red for cars

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    Jan 29th 2025, 3:37 PM

    @eoin fitzpatrick: The Luas was where it was supposed to be, on the tracks. I know the junction very well. It is a three way junction plus the Luas lines and cyclists constantly break the lights there, both traffic and Luas.
    Not a good place to take a gamble on being quick enough

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    Jan 29th 2025, 4:11 PM

    @Gary Kearney: when we had cameras on one luas junction, far more cars were breaking reds than cyclists

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    Jan 29th 2025, 4:20 PM

    @eoin fitzpatrick: so why ratio is ok Eoin?

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    Jan 29th 2025, 4:23 PM

    @You Cant Be Serious: what ratio?

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    Jan 29th 2025, 4:24 PM

    @Tom L: that was probably Eoin

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    Jan 29th 2025, 6:54 PM

    @Tom L: i blame cyclists for the war in Gaza

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    Jan 29th 2025, 9:43 AM

    and What about Dublin Coach, the Green Bus, Always broke down, drivers abandons the bus anywhere they like and a lot of their coaches aren’t even fit to be on the road as there damaged or critical components hanging off the bus.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 9:45 AM

    @Tommy: With respect, wouldn’t it be more prudent to await more information?

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    Jan 29th 2025, 10:13 AM

    @Tommy: I have been watching that Green bus company for years. Heaps of junk,always missing head lights,panels, etc etc,I’ve seen them broken down more than all the other bus companies combined. Department of Transport needs to audit that company ASAP. How they pass DOEs is beyond me.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 10:24 AM

    @Tommy: there, they’re, their pick’n’mix. Any one will do – sure they all mean the same thing

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    Jan 29th 2025, 10:31 AM

    @Mary Linton: sorry my bad, but I just had to mention what I saw this morning, Dublin Coach their bus passed me on the M50 and with no rear red lights and 5 minutes later passing it out. It was broken down and the driver was no where to be seen.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 12:12 PM

    @Tommy: Sounds like a made up story to me.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 1:00 PM

    @Tony: you don’t see Dublin Coach broken down constantly so?

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    Jan 29th 2025, 12:39 PM

    Montpellier 200k people 5 tram lines
    Ireland no electricity power for people in the countryside disable and old people waiting for help
    Here people worry about a cycle guy and free Palestine what a joke

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:00 PM

    @Hugo Martinez: Montpellier is a city in a country that has been extremely rich for centuries. Ireland was an economic disaster up until 25 yrs ago approx. Add in Financial crash (08-12) and Covid. Not as easy as you seem to think it is.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 4:16 PM

    @Hugo Martinez: And every town has a municipal sports centre.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 5:21 PM

    @Fred: to have the money we would have needed to have been independent during the period of colonisation and robbed some countries like the British, Dutch, French etc.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 12:04 PM

    Probably vaping while cycling, absolutely imperative that vapes are banned.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 12:07 PM

    @Paul Soup: another fake account Paisley/Jim/Trump24? You’re so easy to spot

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    Jan 29th 2025, 12:55 PM

    @Dermot Blaine: and Mary Linton with the fake old English school marm act, taking over from Basildon joe probably

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    Jan 29th 2025, 1:38 PM

    Every day there is an incident on RED LINE it seems.

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    Jan 29th 2025, 2:52 PM

    Was it a real cyclist or someone on a e-scooter/motorbike?

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    Jan 29th 2025, 6:08 PM

    My bet is, it was a just-eat cyclist that ran a red light.

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