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E-SCOOTERS ARE TO be banned from public transport in early October for safety reasons, the National Transport Authority has announced.
Train and bus users will no longer be allowed to bring e-scooters on board with them as they can be a fire hazard.
Similar restrictions are already in place in Berlin, Barcelona, and the UK.
The ban will apply to e-scooters but not e-bikes or mobility scooters, the NTA said.
E-scooters are a relatively new sight on Irish roads and were unregulated until earlier this year.
“The quality control of their construction is therefore not as mature or well developed as e-bikes and mobility scooters, which have been regulated for longer,” an NTA statement said.
The batteries of e-bikes and mobility scooters do not pose the same level of risk of combustion, it said, adding that the restriction on e-scooters will be subject to a periodic review.
The new guidance is based on safety concerns related to many lithium-ion batteries, which are commonplace in e-scooters.
“These batteries are known to develop internal faults, leading to overheating and combustion,” the NTA said, citing fires on public transport in Madrid and Barcelona.
The new rule applies to all services operated under a contract with the NTA, including Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann, Go-Ahead Ireland, Iarnród Éireann and Luas.
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DIT – The city is our campus…….HA
The Edge studied in DIT. Kevin street for a while – then go a better offer
Samuel Beckett did not describe Trinity students as ‘rich and thick.’ He in fact said that in response to a reprimand by the Head Master at Campbell College in Belfast who told him he was teaching “the cream of Ulster.”
“Yes,” replied Beckett, ‘rich and thick.”
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Not defending trinners or anything, but Russian-English Dictionaries of Diplomacy have probably been very handy this last week.
UCD is like Fianna Fáil.. It skilfully combines the rural gombeen with the south Dublin jackeen. Accent and appearance aside they’re pretty much the same thing.
“Oh my gawd, Fintan. They have compoiled an article in thejourno which bundles us Trinners with the loikes of UCD. Even worse, they mention the college the girl you met last week was from when you really decided to rough it – was that DCU or DIT?”
A report last year showed that the colleges with the highest % in employment 6 months after graduation were UL & WIT so take that Dublin.
Tesco check-out doesn’t count.
A fact they don’t like to face up to. I went to UL for my degree and did my h.dip in UCD. I was honestly gob smacked at people in Dublin telling what ‘an amazing’ campus UCD has. It is, by comparison with UL, ugly, insufficient and out dated. Also, the standard of lecturing and organisation left a lot to be desired. The academic standard in UL was very competitive, more along the lines of the ethos of the old RTCs, which was a really healthy thing.
Maybe UL has an advantage as it secured a lot of private funding over the last 25-30 years, especially from Irish-Americans. However, that’s down to their own hard work and genius. No offense to UCD, but it simply doesn’t compare in most facets.
TCD 61st in the world, UCD 139th….UL 451-500. Bit you’re right, UL is pretty.
I’m afraid it’s about more than being pretty, which UL certainly is. UCD focuses hugely, probably disproportionally, on publications of papers and this is one of the core criteria of QS ranking of universities. This was an expressed opinion of a h.dip supervisor from UCD I spoke to a couple of years back. It’s a financial strategy more than an educational aim. And that is the problem with UCD. Maybe that clarifies it somewhat for you. My experience of both was vastly different. All institutions have their problems, but UL seems to have a very clear, structural development alongside very high academic standards. Sorry if it that doesn’t sit well with your assumptions .
I spent a year in UL, left because of those much-vaunted standards you speak of. I don’t see how having a staff that focus primarily on the publication of research is a negative, but then again an institution like UL with a local/regional outlook really can’t be compared to national and international institutions like TCD and UCD.
UL and WIT may have higher employment rates at first because they teach fairly specific degrees which can be directly applied to the job market.
The NUIs and Trin teach broader degrees across a wider spectrum of fields which can’t in many cases be directly applied to the Irish job market. This is why there is a difference.
Source please?
Adverts.ie should stick to advertising unwanted sofas and not writing “funny” articles. That was cack
The Ugg Boot winner in BESS in Trinners by a long shot, DBS a mere runner up
In a way we all have a Doctor of something in life, be it a father a mother a hard working grafter, or just even in a simple dog walker.
What?
A love doctor maybe?
Definitely a trinity head
Think your doctor is looking for you, it’s happy pill time
DAFUQ you on about lad?!
Shut your hole
Learnt all I needed to learn in the bestest collage in ireland. Mount Joy.
bestest ? im dubious bruv
Also collage.
Mountjoy is one word…
* I learned
NCI – NOT a COMPLETE INSTITUTE
Sounds about right. Just hope its inproved sunce my day
Conor if only I’d remembered dublin jackeen when I called my brother’s new girlfriend a dublin jackass….haunts me to this day
I am going to ucd and as a lad who lived out in the countryside all my life,it was a big change
Since when is Russian “obscure and ultimately useless”!?
Since the 80s
Russian: Spoken and used by over 200 million people as a first language
Irish: As a first language : less than 100, 000
I know it isn’t true but when I was younger we used to joke that if you weren’t in an NUI you graduated with a hard-hat, a box of crayons and the keys to a hiace!!! Friendly banter is brilliant!
Eh…Griffith. Worth a mention? Thanks a bunch :P
Griffith’s Private, the others on the list aren’t.
Pretty sure Griffith sums up Rich and Thick a lot better than Trinity.
DBS is private.
It was a good while ago when I did the leaving, but that year was the first year DBS were included in the CAO system. Griffith to my knowledge is not. So if that’s still the case, it’s at least part-public, so to speak.
No grá for St Pats? It’s a small college but jaysus Coppers would go out of business if it weren’t for it!
I srarted in trinity last week as a mature student and I was completely overwhelmed by the place
The towel flickers! South side homos just don’t get it
The article was both terrible and offensive in equal measure. Consolidates my view never to read these sponsored stories…curiosity got the better of me this time.
dire article cut and paste gone down the jacks
Get a job! Load of bums won’t be ready to start working until they’re 35 years old.
Go IAU – best college in Dublin :)
ITB – Forever dodging the clampers!
St Patrick’s College Carlow all the way lads. Not much to do in the town though.
That’s predominantly a priest’s college … Carlow has a pretty big IT, where you won’t find Dub 4 knob-ends guffawing about the “Lass” they ‘snogged’ in Coppers, like .. ya … Also there’s tonnes to do in Carlow town. Did you ever leave the college grounds??
This song probably sums up the NCAD stereotype:
https://soundcloud.com/bennysmiles/ncad-girl-day-draft-benny
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