Councils make decisions about bike lanes mate, Government make funding available
The cork limerick motorway has moved forward under the last Government
Bad drivers kill more people mate
Keep up dunce
A greenway for Dublin Bay
Sir, – It is so refreshing and invigorating to read your columnist Eamon Ryan’s denunciations of the worst and most self-indulgent manifestations of the “Nimbyism” that has left Dublin and so many of our cities and towns comically deficient in the public infrastructure necessary for environmentally sustainable living in the 2020s (“Why is there still no greenway for Dublin Bay?”, Opinion, May 20th).
His ability to cut through the bluster and bureaucratic sclerosis is laser-like and exactly what’s required to find a way through the dusty labyrinth of apathy that pass for public administration in this State. Is there no way of getting visionaries like him into politics? Why cannot we see people of this energy and resolution climb the ranks to, say, ministerial rank?
Think of the difference it would have made if someone like Eamon Ryan could have found himself in a position like minister for the environment or transport? Where would we be now? How much better served and sustainable?
Alas. What might have been. – Yours, etc,
CATHAL MacCARTHY,
O’Connell Avenue,
Limerick.
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Who do we know living around Fennessy’s that’s very sarcastic?
Not @backinatracksuit anyways
No, the other lad I meant actually…
Remarkably twee way of illustrating you know little of the hierarchies of responsibility for decision making in such matters; and less of the political economy of charting one’s way through these.
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Green cunts are loons…
1.6 billion bottles and cans returned through Deposit Return Scheme so far
Recycling rates have risen from 49 per cent to an estimated 91 per cent, with 76 per cent of containers captured directly through the DRS and a further 15 per cent collected via mixed dry recycling.
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And this despite the fact that they NEVER work for headbangers, unbelievable 
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Imagine how high that number could be if they ever worked?
What a brilliant legacy for Eamonn Ryan.
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I was dubious about this whole thing as I just recycle properly using the bins but that’s an incredible and incontrovertible success.
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All bar one time they’ve worked for me and that was because someone before me tried to stuff a load of cans in and jammed it. Great scheme.
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I had an awful run with them there for a bit, which was well documented. And you only get one chance to make a first impression
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Best time to recycle. Tuesday morning. Weekends there’s queues of lads with shopping trolleys full of cans from the hooley the night before. Monday they are full/broken.
Best machines. Lidl. Honourable mention. SuperValu/Centra.
Worst machines. Aldi.
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How many un recyclable receipts has it printed?
In my best Dublin taxi driver accent…I’m not being racist but…I find when you order a drink with your Chinese or Indian takeaway you often get an imported can/bottle that doesn’t have the “R” symbol & the machines don’t take these (I may have mentioned this before). So I’d usually end up popping these into the green bin instead but poor old @Batigol can be spotted wandering around Portlaoise shouldering the recycling machines in these instances.
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