Rob O'Mhantain
@mhantain.bsky.social
Wickla lad lost in Dublin. Tech by day, family by night, #andacyclist in between.
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Ride to work for your minimum wage job on your scooter or eBike?
Hey, wear this, wear this, wear this.
Disqualified for driving with no licence or insurance on methadone killing a 14 y.o.?
Hey, let's get you back behind the wheel asap! Wouldn't want to leave you stuck on a scooter or eBike!
Hey, wear this, wear this, wear this.
Disqualified for driving with no licence or insurance on methadone killing a 14 y.o.?
Hey, let's get you back behind the wheel asap! Wouldn't want to leave you stuck on a scooter or eBike!
February 4, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Ride to work for your minimum wage job on your scooter or eBike?
Hey, wear this, wear this, wear this.
Disqualified for driving with no licence or insurance on methadone killing a 14 y.o.?
Hey, let's get you back behind the wheel asap! Wouldn't want to leave you stuck on a scooter or eBike!
Hey, wear this, wear this, wear this.
Disqualified for driving with no licence or insurance on methadone killing a 14 y.o.?
Hey, let's get you back behind the wheel asap! Wouldn't want to leave you stuck on a scooter or eBike!
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Now we're talking!
Hi-vis for everyone!
Hi-vis for everyone!
February 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Now we're talking!
Hi-vis for everyone!
Hi-vis for everyone!
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It feels really good to dunk on those Bitcoin fools. They were so unbearably obnoxious and smug for so long. If you lost your shirt and you weren't a jerk, I'm sorry. But for the rest of ya's:
February 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
It feels really good to dunk on those Bitcoin fools. They were so unbearably obnoxious and smug for so long. If you lost your shirt and you weren't a jerk, I'm sorry. But for the rest of ya's:
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This was the Tir Conaill Tribune's front page headline when work started on a road being slightly narrowed for 1 km of cycle lane in Letterkenny
February 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM
This was the Tir Conaill Tribune's front page headline when work started on a road being slightly narrowed for 1 km of cycle lane in Letterkenny
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We are dealing with a serious incident at the junction of Talbot Street and North Earl Street.
We are asking the public to please avoid the area.
As ever, we are asking people to avoid sharing images of the scene.
We are asking the public to please avoid the area.
As ever, we are asking people to avoid sharing images of the scene.
February 5, 2026 at 1:21 PM
We are dealing with a serious incident at the junction of Talbot Street and North Earl Street.
We are asking the public to please avoid the area.
As ever, we are asking people to avoid sharing images of the scene.
We are asking the public to please avoid the area.
As ever, we are asking people to avoid sharing images of the scene.
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Segregated cycle lane.
Even then it doesn't matter if drivers aren't looking.
bsky.app/profile/citi...
Even then it doesn't matter if drivers aren't looking.
bsky.app/profile/citi...
Yet again we have more BS calls for people on bikes to have manditory HiViz & plastic hats.
Meanwhile in the real world the actual threat comes from drivers. This guy was looking at his phone as he blindly followed the car in front of him across a segregated cycle-lane.
Meanwhile in the real world the actual threat comes from drivers. This guy was looking at his phone as he blindly followed the car in front of him across a segregated cycle-lane.
February 5, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Segregated cycle lane.
Even then it doesn't matter if drivers aren't looking.
bsky.app/profile/citi...
Even then it doesn't matter if drivers aren't looking.
bsky.app/profile/citi...
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I was wearing hi vis when a motorist drove into me. Passengers in the car got out to tell me the driver was really upset because she didn't see me. I didn't have much sympathy as I was picking gravel out of my hands.
I was visible. She didn't look.
I was visible. She didn't look.
The hi viz will work great when I'm hit by a motorist looking at their phone.
February 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I was wearing hi vis when a motorist drove into me. Passengers in the car got out to tell me the driver was really upset because she didn't see me. I didn't have much sympathy as I was picking gravel out of my hands.
I was visible. She didn't look.
I was visible. She didn't look.
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Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. (repeat & fade)
...
Song: Everybody Hurts
Album: Automatic For The People
everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. (repeat & fade)
...
Song: Everybody Hurts
Album: Automatic For The People
Everybody Hurts at Youtube
Everybody Hurts at Youtube
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. (repeat & fade)
...
Song: Everybody Hurts
Album: Automatic For The People
everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. (repeat & fade)
...
Song: Everybody Hurts
Album: Automatic For The People
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Fair play to Morgan McSweeney- a blue shirt Corkonian hasn’t been such a threat to the British government since 1920
February 4, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Fair play to Morgan McSweeney- a blue shirt Corkonian hasn’t been such a threat to the British government since 1920
Ride to work for your minimum wage job on your scooter or eBike?
Hey, wear this, wear this, wear this.
Disqualified for driving with no licence or insurance on methadone killing a 14 y.o.?
Hey, let's get you back behind the wheel asap! Wouldn't want to leave you stuck on a scooter or eBike!
Hey, wear this, wear this, wear this.
Disqualified for driving with no licence or insurance on methadone killing a 14 y.o.?
Hey, let's get you back behind the wheel asap! Wouldn't want to leave you stuck on a scooter or eBike!
February 4, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Ride to work for your minimum wage job on your scooter or eBike?
Hey, wear this, wear this, wear this.
Disqualified for driving with no licence or insurance on methadone killing a 14 y.o.?
Hey, let's get you back behind the wheel asap! Wouldn't want to leave you stuck on a scooter or eBike!
Hey, wear this, wear this, wear this.
Disqualified for driving with no licence or insurance on methadone killing a 14 y.o.?
Hey, let's get you back behind the wheel asap! Wouldn't want to leave you stuck on a scooter or eBike!
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And there we have it folks, having failed to do anything to halt the injury and death toll on our roads the government now plans to criminalise cycling.
This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
Helmets and hi-vis clothing to be made mandatory for e-bikes and e-scooter users
Cabinet will sign off on plans to explicitly ban the use of scramblers on roads this morning.
www.thejournal.ie
February 4, 2026 at 7:30 AM
And there we have it folks, having failed to do anything to halt the injury and death toll on our roads the government now plans to criminalise cycling.
This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
This will kill bike share schemes around the country. @bleeperactive.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
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Found a couple of old 'cash for cars' adverts when I was outside of my usual route. They got the usual treatment.
February 3, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Found a couple of old 'cash for cars' adverts when I was outside of my usual route. They got the usual treatment.
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Oh well!
To host the last game, the Irish gov spent €4.2m on a licence fee to the NFL, and another €5m on infrastructure and “operational costs”.
DCC spent €350,000.
Imagine if that money was spent on local sporting initiatives? A lot of kids in Dublin City don’t even have a pitch to play on.
To host the last game, the Irish gov spent €4.2m on a licence fee to the NFL, and another €5m on infrastructure and “operational costs”.
DCC spent €350,000.
Imagine if that money was spent on local sporting initiatives? A lot of kids in Dublin City don’t even have a pitch to play on.
NFL confirms there will be no game in Dublin this year
NFL confirms there will be no game in Dublin this year
Paris and Melbourne to host games for the first time next season
www.irishtimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Oh well!
To host the last game, the Irish gov spent €4.2m on a licence fee to the NFL, and another €5m on infrastructure and “operational costs”.
DCC spent €350,000.
Imagine if that money was spent on local sporting initiatives? A lot of kids in Dublin City don’t even have a pitch to play on.
To host the last game, the Irish gov spent €4.2m on a licence fee to the NFL, and another €5m on infrastructure and “operational costs”.
DCC spent €350,000.
Imagine if that money was spent on local sporting initiatives? A lot of kids in Dublin City don’t even have a pitch to play on.
Found a couple of old 'cash for cars' adverts when I was outside of my usual route. They got the usual treatment.
February 3, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Found a couple of old 'cash for cars' adverts when I was outside of my usual route. They got the usual treatment.
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All vehicles should have speed governors. This chud shouldn’t have had access to a vehicle capable of such speed. There is no need.
His parents failed as well. Boys who have nothing else going for them but “I can drive a car! I can drive a car fast!”
His parents failed as well. Boys who have nothing else going for them but “I can drive a car! I can drive a car fast!”
Teen BMW driver arrested for manslaughter for 107-mph Queens crash that killed woman, 76
Police sources say Tegh Pawar, 18, was going more than twice the 50-mph speed limit on the Cross Island Parkway when he crashed a relative’s 2025 BMW M3.
www.nydailynews.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
All vehicles should have speed governors. This chud shouldn’t have had access to a vehicle capable of such speed. There is no need.
His parents failed as well. Boys who have nothing else going for them but “I can drive a car! I can drive a car fast!”
His parents failed as well. Boys who have nothing else going for them but “I can drive a car! I can drive a car fast!”
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Thank God we're not polarised today folks. I know floods are bad, but polarisation would be very uncomfortable. #spéirgorm
February 2, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Thank God we're not polarised today folks. I know floods are bad, but polarisation would be very uncomfortable. #spéirgorm
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Kinda love the neon halo
January 31, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Kinda love the neon halo
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The problem is Facebook.
Its not the kids that needs a social media ban, its the grandparents.
Its not the kids that needs a social media ban, its the grandparents.
January 31, 2026 at 8:28 AM
The problem is Facebook.
Its not the kids that needs a social media ban, its the grandparents.
Its not the kids that needs a social media ban, its the grandparents.
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Everybody knew, nobody said.
A week ago last Tuesday.
She was just fifteen years.
When she reached her full term.
She went to a grotto.
Just a field,
In The Middle of The Island.
To deliver herself.
Her Baby died,
She died
It was a sad, slow, stupid death for them both.
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
A week ago last Tuesday.
She was just fifteen years.
When she reached her full term.
She went to a grotto.
Just a field,
In The Middle of The Island.
To deliver herself.
Her Baby died,
She died
It was a sad, slow, stupid death for them both.
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
Remembering Ann Lovett who died #Onthisday 1984 www.dib.ie/biography/lo...
January 30, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Everybody knew, nobody said.
A week ago last Tuesday.
She was just fifteen years.
When she reached her full term.
She went to a grotto.
Just a field,
In The Middle of The Island.
To deliver herself.
Her Baby died,
She died
It was a sad, slow, stupid death for them both.
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
A week ago last Tuesday.
She was just fifteen years.
When she reached her full term.
She went to a grotto.
Just a field,
In The Middle of The Island.
To deliver herself.
Her Baby died,
She died
It was a sad, slow, stupid death for them both.
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
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My letter to the editor of the Irish Times (28.01.26) this week calling out Fine Gael hypocrisy over car parking charges
January 30, 2026 at 11:37 AM
My letter to the editor of the Irish Times (28.01.26) this week calling out Fine Gael hypocrisy over car parking charges
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Thank god someone is talking sense and hasn't drunk the tech billionaires koolaid
The Ombudsman for the Children’s Office has pushed back on the idea of a social media ban for under 16s. The measure had been floated by figures including the Tánaiste, following the introduction of a similar ban in Australia.
More on #VMNews
More on #VMNews
January 29, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Thank god someone is talking sense and hasn't drunk the tech billionaires koolaid
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Two years of pavement parking ban in Edinburgh and the sky has not fallen. Drivers have changed their behaviour. This makes a big difference to parents with biggies and people who use wheelchairs. Would be great to see this in Dublin. @dccbeta.bsky.social @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
It's two years today since enforcement began against pavement parking in Edinburgh.
We urge others to follow their lead, so everyone in Scotland can enjoy safer streets.
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14348/positives-of-pavement-parking-ban-in-edinburgh-praised-two-years-on
We urge others to follow their lead, so everyone in Scotland can enjoy safer streets.
https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14348/positives-of-pavement-parking-ban-in-edinburgh-praised-two-years-on
Positives of pavement parking ban in Edinburgh praised two years on
Positives of pavement parking ban in Edinburgh praised two years on
www.edinburgh.gov.uk
January 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Two years of pavement parking ban in Edinburgh and the sky has not fallen. Drivers have changed their behaviour. This makes a big difference to parents with biggies and people who use wheelchairs. Would be great to see this in Dublin. @dccbeta.bsky.social @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
Everybody knew, nobody said.
A week ago last Tuesday.
She was just fifteen years.
When she reached her full term.
She went to a grotto.
Just a field,
In The Middle of The Island.
To deliver herself.
Her Baby died,
She died
It was a sad, slow, stupid death for them both.
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
A week ago last Tuesday.
She was just fifteen years.
When she reached her full term.
She went to a grotto.
Just a field,
In The Middle of The Island.
To deliver herself.
Her Baby died,
She died
It was a sad, slow, stupid death for them both.
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
Remembering Ann Lovett who died #Onthisday 1984 www.dib.ie/biography/lo...
January 30, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Everybody knew, nobody said.
A week ago last Tuesday.
She was just fifteen years.
When she reached her full term.
She went to a grotto.
Just a field,
In The Middle of The Island.
To deliver herself.
Her Baby died,
She died
It was a sad, slow, stupid death for them both.
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
A week ago last Tuesday.
She was just fifteen years.
When she reached her full term.
She went to a grotto.
Just a field,
In The Middle of The Island.
To deliver herself.
Her Baby died,
She died
It was a sad, slow, stupid death for them both.
Nigel Rolfe/Christy Moore
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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All aboard the Springfield monorail
January 28, 2026 at 10:43 AM
All aboard the Springfield monorail