July 24th, 2018 The Government has launched a new strategy to invest €53 million in the planning and construction of greenways over the next three years. Last Friday, the Minister for Transport Shane Ross, TD announced the new strategy that he says will take the importance of access to scenery into Read more…
November 21st, 2017 Ireland’s leading cycling organisations have blamed Government inaction for a rise in the number of cyclist deaths this year after two more riders died on Irish roads this month. The two deaths bring the total number of people who have lost their lives while cycling this year Read more…
The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has been accused of ‘mocking’ the 2015 Paris Climate Accord by failing to adhere to national policy and legislation in its recent Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area.
Environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) claims that Minister Shane Ross T.D. breached his legal obligations under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 to ‘have regard to’ the objective of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the department’s new strategy.
