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A classroom in the redesigned Model School in Inchicore Ros Kavanagh/RIAI

Here's the full RIAI Gold Medal shortlist as historic primary school nabs top architecture prize

Check out the photos of the winning and shortlisted designs.

THE ARCHITECTS BEHIND a project to rebuild a primary school from the 1800s in Inchicore have been awarded the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) Gold Medal.

Donaghy + Dimond Architects designed the new buildings of the Model School in Dublin 8, which the award jury described as an “inventive reimagination” of the former site.

The jury praised the design for creating a “wonderful assemblage of buildings and spaces” that “reimagines the original school, a Protected Structure – enclosed behind a high stone wall, and with a significant stand of historic chestnut trees – through extension and refurbishment as a contemporary 10-classroom primary school”.

The Gold Medal awarded this year was for projects from between 2013 and 2015 to allow time after the project was completed for it to be properly assessed.

The Model School was selected as the winner from a shortlist of buildings, which were:

  • Bishop Edward King Chapel, Oxfordshire, England by Níall McLaughlin Architects
  • Coláiste Ailigh, Letterkenny by McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects
  • dlrLexicon: Central Library and Cultural Centre, Dún Laoghaire by Cotter & Naessens Architects
  • London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, London, England by O’Donnell + Tuomey
  • Merrion Cricket Pavilion, Ballsbridge, Dublin by TAKA Architects

The RIAI has provided photos to The Journal of the winning and shortlisted buildings.

The Model School, Inchicore

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ModelSchoolInchicore_DonaghyDimond_3_PhotoRKavanagh

ModelSchoolInchicore_DonaghyDimond_6_PhotoRKavanagh

New Model School Entrance_Main Photo__Model School Inchicore_Donaghy+Dimond_Ros Kavanagh Ros Kavanagh Ros Kavanagh

Bishop Edward King Chapel

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BishopEdwardKingChapel_NíallMcLoughlinArchitects_PhotoNickKane_publicity image Nick Kane Nick Kane

Coláiste Ailigh

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ColaisteAiligh_McGarryNiEanaighArchitects_PhotoRichardHatch_publicity image Richard Hatch Richard Hatch

dlrLexicon

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DLRLexicon_Cotter&NaessensArchitects_PhotoDennisGilbert_publicity image Dennis Gilbert Dennis Gilbert

London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre

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LSESawSweeHockStudentCentre_O'Donnell+Tuomey_PhotoDennisGilbert_publicity image Dennis Gilbert Dennis Gilbert

Merrion Cricket Pavilion

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MerrionCricketPavilion_TAKAArchitects_PhotoAliceClancy_publicity image Alice Clancy Alice Clancy

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    Mute Alex
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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:10 AM

    Didn’t work in Paris. The only thing it did was littering the city with those and being dangerous to pedestrians.

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    Mute Dave Grant
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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:30 AM

    @Alex: Yes it does work in Paris, you know nothing.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:39 AM

    @Dave Grant If you did any research whatsoever you’d know they completely banned them in 2023 because they caused such a nuisance.

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    Mute Alex
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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:49 AM

    @Dave Grant: How does it work in Paris ? Tell me Dave? Didn’t you know the Parisian voted at 90% to get rid of it ? How about you don’t say anything if you are clueless about it?

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    Mute DJ D
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    Aug 4th 2024, 1:27 AM

    @Alex: nanny state mentality

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    Aug 4th 2024, 5:21 AM

    @Dave Grant: banned in paris

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    Mute Noel Byrne
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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:56 PM

    @Dave Grant: 100% incorrect. You know nothing.

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:17 PM

    @Dave Grant: wrong they banned them for good reason. Do the research!

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:19 PM

    @DJ D: No it was a health and safety issues. They were blocking the footpaths and there were LOT OF accidents.
    Nothing nanny state about it!
    The people wanted then gone.

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    Mute Bridget Nevin
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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:27 AM

    Delighted! They litter the streets and left all over pavements!

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    Mute 9QRixo8H
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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:31 AM

    What, have you tried to walk down a street without seeing a car littering our pavements and roads?

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    Mute Mick Duvanny
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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:37 AM

    @Bridget Nevin: eScooters? You barely see any in Dublin. Meanwhile cars have taken over everywhere

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    Mute frank dowling
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    Aug 4th 2024, 4:48 AM

    @9QRixo8H: cars don’t litter the pavements..theres this thing called kerbside parking, you see.. and offenders can be fined for bad parking ..

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    Mute Liam OTailliuir
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    Aug 4th 2024, 6:01 AM

    @frank dowling: can be fined is meaningless if enforcement levels are as low as they are.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:17 AM

    @Liam OTailliuir: We still don’t see cars strewn across footpaths as Paris experienced with these scooters, ans we see with these ride-sharing bikes.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 5:03 PM

    @9QRixo8H: You must be a sad person with no prospect of owning a vehicle so you want people off cars because “if I can’t have one, the no one can”, right?

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    Mute Seán O'Sullivan
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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:58 PM

    @frank dowling: cars do litter the pavements, anywhere i look

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:22 PM

    @9QRixo8H: There are some cars that do, and the fight continues with them. But it has nothing to do with that fight.
    All the cities these things have been released they injuries to users and pedestrian numbers is horrific.
    Same with hire e-bikes.
    They get abandoned all over the place too.
    Google the issue and see why Paris banned them!

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:23 PM

    @Mick Duvanny: Hardly they are being blocked and stopped from entering various parts of the city.

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    Mute Gary Crawford
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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:32 AM

    If they do introduce them here it will probably not be monitored. I have seen these scooters all over the place in other European cities abandoned everywhere blocking footpaths for the general public and more importantly for vulnerable path users, the elderly and wheelchair users. No thanks and we don’t want to be knocked down by them either.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:37 AM

    Did you not see any cars in those EU cities? No cars on roads? Or blocking footpaths? You don’t want to be knocked down by a car I would imagine?

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    Aug 4th 2024, 1:47 AM

    @9QRixo8H: A car has a Registration Plate, therefore is *registered*, and insured, and taxed, and is obliged to be driven by people who have been tested and examined on their knowledge and compliance with the Rules of the Road

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    Aug 4th 2024, 2:49 AM

    @Pink Freud: ok, how many people were killed from cars and how many people were killed from electric-powered scooters scattered here and there? EXACTLY. LOSE EVERY TIME.

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    Mute Shane O Mac
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    Aug 4th 2024, 3:02 AM

    @9QRixo8H: I pay road tax, I can drive on any road i want,

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:29 AM

    @Shane O Mac: No road tax in Ireland.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:40 AM

    @Gary Crawford: they have brought in new protocols here in Finland. Reduced speed in built up areas and designated parking bays so you can’t just leave them anywhere you want. I can imagine they will be badly damaged in Ireland by certain people.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 8:36 AM

    @9QRixo8H: so you asking how many people were killed by parked cars ?

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:24 AM

    @9QRixo8H: Which does not invalidate the point made – these scooters were being left strewn across footpaths and pedestrian areas in those cities that permitted their use.

    To the extent that the people of Paris voted to ban them.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:25 AM

    @Gary Crawford: Teething probs, that’s all. A scooter is one car less on the street. Keep them coming, and ignore the perpetual nay sayers.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 1:33 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: wtf??

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    Aug 4th 2024, 2:08 PM

    @sean weir: He means it’s called “motor tax” and not “road tax”. There’s always one gobshìte that says this.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 8:52 PM

    @9QRixo8H: hahaha no correlation there at all. Why not compare a space rocket to a car for mass , speed etc. Dopey. Get yourself a car like normal folk.

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:24 PM

    @Gary Crawford: Monitoring makes no difference, the GPS is not exact enough and the copaniers talk a good talk but they cannot back it up with facts.

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:26 PM

    @smatrix mantra: Actually the research says they replace walking, cycling, and public transport.
    Car users changes do happen but are few and far between.
    Google is great for research!

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    Aug 4th 2024, 1:00 AM

    All electric scooters should be banned!!

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    Aug 4th 2024, 2:51 AM

    All cars should be banned!!! All the best!!

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:08 AM

    @9QRixo8H: a stupid remark

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    Mute sean weir
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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:20 AM

    @9QRixo8H: you beloved E scooters are banned in
    UK
    Holland
    Greece
    You need a full driver’s licence in Italy
    Germany is banning them from 1st May 2024 .

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    Aug 4th 2024, 8:37 AM

    @9QRixo8H: oh dear, you seem to have issue with cars…get help..

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:13 AM

    @sean weir: they are not banned in the UK

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    Aug 4th 2024, 1:35 PM

    @Tony Lyons: on ALL public roads in England and Scotland

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:27 PM

    @Tony Lyons: Not yet but there are groups working on it!

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:11 AM

    No thanks.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:06 AM

    My wife got hit by one on the footpath in Budapest. They are too big and designed to carry two passengers. Plus, they were abandoned without any consideration for vulnerable pedestrians

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    Aug 4th 2024, 1:44 AM

    Would that be one of the many who duck and dive every legitimate and justified civil case brought against them? The same sort who accept no responsibility for anything that happens with their scooters, ever? The scooter rental that conspired to cover-up a known safety flaw in their product, *that* scooter company?
    They are worse than the sneakiest among Car Rental companies.

    A wholly notorious outfit, by all accounts.
    We dodged a bullet there, that’s for sure!

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    Aug 4th 2024, 8:29 AM

    What’s wrong with good old-fashioned walking. Probably not a thing anymore.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 8:41 AM

    @did you every wonder: good luck walking a 40k commute every day..

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:52 AM

    @NotGreta: anyone doing a 40km commute on a e-scooter needs to have a good honest chat with themselves.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:28 AM

    Have used them in other EU countries. Extremely convenient, especially in areas where it takes longer to take a taxi or bus. I was surprised at how fast I got around the city. They’re a better option than cars littering the cities and not just a danger to all but a fatality.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:51 AM

    @9QRixo8H: That’s why those services are being banned a city after another right? So great the people living in those cities vote to get rid of it.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 2:52 AM

    @Alex: that’s why how many people get killed by cars and not by electric scooters. You are SO RIGHT ALEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:12 AM

    @9QRixo8H: banned in Paris

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:06 AM

    @9QRixo8H: are you upset patriot?

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:30 AM

    @9QRixo8H: Care to answer the question posed?

    Why are the people of Europe banning these scooters?

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:28 PM

    @9QRixo8H: So you don’t like cars, fine. E-scooters are not the way around motor v ehicles, neither are bikes. Not everyone can use them.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:24 AM

    Has everyone missed the obvious? It’s not the e-scooters that are the problem, it’s the users. Ride them safely, take into consideration other road users and pedestrians, obey the rules of the road and when finished leave them in a suitable place that does not cause a hazard for others

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    Aug 4th 2024, 10:08 AM

    @Paul1st: The best way to stop a bad guy with an escooter is a good guy with an escooter?

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:08 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: LOL! Top notch AmeriKKKan logic. Well spotted! Maith thú!

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:18 PM

    @Paul1st: The Law should have incorporated regulations on parking/lock-up zones for scooters in particular (with a public+workplace infrastructural obligatation), AND the obligation to afix a Speedometer to the handlebars, an obligation to surrender it’s current and historic record/readings to any Gard asking for it when stopped, and obligation to register all ride-on electronic propulsion machinery *and* it’s correlating fitted battery’s un-erasable manufacturer’s number/mark (in order to hold owners responsible for unlawful toxic disposal in the future) to a National Registry, and an obligation to hold similar (but far better/responsive) insurance both for the machine itself+the rider+public liability (for any harm it and it’s rider does to pedestrian, domestic pet or livestock while in motion).

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:29 PM

    @Paul1st: Ah the old second amendment argument, Guns don’t kill people, people do.
    It is BS of the highest older.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 3:01 AM

    Before people could so easily purchase escooters for transport, I used Lime in Berlin, around 2019. It was super handy getting from a to b and a bit of craic way to see the city. Though sometimes you’d run for a Lime via the app only to find it’s not there, which was a pain. They were kind of scattered without regard everywhere causing trip hazards etc, but there, they have large wide pavements whereas in Ireland, and DCC it’s not the case. If people had to return it to a docking station like the dublin bikes, I might be interested in using them.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:14 AM

    Yea, Block everything…… let us always be miles behind European countries……

    Muppets

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:28 AM

    @declan benson: Other Europeans places are going back on e-scooter sharing. It doesn’t work.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:21 AM

    @declan benson: complete ban of them in the
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    Greece
    Holland
    And Germany is banning them from 1st may 2024

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:43 AM

    @sean weir: are they banned in Germany or are they banning them from the 1st of may 2024?

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:07 AM

    @declan benson: like cigarette smoking

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    Aug 4th 2024, 2:24 AM

    so the greens closing of dublin city to cars and we can all agree that public transport is not great, so people are using e scooters and now they want to ban them, how are people supposed to get access to the city

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:10 AM

    @Nikki Swift: they don’t want to ban them ,you can use them but there are safety restrictions.
    A top speed of 20km is plenty,

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:30 AM

    @Nikki Swift: The Greens aren’t closing Dublin city to cars.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:33 AM

    @Nikki Swift: try walking, like we’ve done for hundreds of years ya mope

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    Aug 4th 2024, 10:22 AM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: They aren’t closing it but DCC are making it as difficult as they can for people who need to drive around the city. I’ve genuinely given up some small maintenance contracts in businesses around the city as they were no longer viable because of traffic.

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:30 PM

    @sean weir: Do you know that that rule is completely bogus,
    Not chance in hell i n making it stick.
    NONE and the minister knows that.

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:31 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Not all of it just large parts, with the aim to have the canal cordon in place.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:13 AM

    Bolt already has a presence in Ireland offering a bicycle sharing service in Sligo Kilkenny and Wexford. In Wexford alone the usage has blown past expectations. So Bolt could launch e scooters here fairly quick as they have the data and base.

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:32 PM

    @Nemethon: Yes and the bikes being deserted in all the wrong places are already being reported as is happening in Dublin too.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:40 AM

    Thankfully. Westport is littered with their bikes already. The only people you see using them have cone out of the pub and go for a spin…

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:29 AM

    As usual the Greens are full of Sh** This would take 1000 cars off the streets but they no more green than biflg oil, scammers one and all.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:34 AM

    Latest poll today has FFG and Greens on course for another 5 years in power. They have support with how they are running the country. Zero dissatisfaction if polls are to be believed.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:36 AM

    @9QRixo8H: good thing the election wasn’t today

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    Aug 4th 2024, 2:52 AM

    @Eoin .h: who do you think will win the election then

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    Aug 4th 2024, 8:39 AM

    @9QRixo8H: FFG are very popular..Greens are facing near wipeout..Will have v little influence in future, if any

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:38 AM

    @9QRixo8H: Didn’t the Greens halve their representation in the recent Locals?
    And got wiped out in the Euros?

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:05 PM

    While walking in ..,., yesterday young child had her leg broken because of mechanical vehicle on footpath, guy actually took off, so that’s a hit and run! It’s illegal to e scoot on footpath . It’s exactly the same as driving a car on the foot path. Under road traffic laws it’s illegal to have mechanically propelled vehicle on footpath, no matter speed or weight. You know it’s called a foot path for non vehicular mechanical assistant vehicles. Mechanical propelled vehicle ! So arrogant comments on here.

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:34 PM

    @Brian O’Connor: The minister changed the rules, by stealth. the MAV description no longer covers e-scooter or e-bikes.
    The regulation brought in have more holes than a colander.

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    Mute Injustice Cop
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    Aug 4th 2024, 10:13 AM

    Delighted. Sick of ignorant scooterists driving on the path being a menace.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:35 AM

    Everyone of these will end up in the social housing flats that blight our city.

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Aug 4th 2024, 10:12 AM

    @Paul: Good!

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    Aug 4th 2024, 10:30 AM

    I have seen these used in many UK cities and work very well but typical Irish government cock up in legislation they will wait until a cronies months r family of a TD or minister is involved in company before law changes

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    Mute Pat Barry
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    Aug 4th 2024, 11:21 AM

    @james dooley: They work well in Rome too, expensive though, as a side note Uber in Paris is excellent, and the drivers aren’t grumpy anymore! Cheaper than the Metro if you have a couple of people with you.

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:35 PM

    @james dooley: They are not a success in the UK, there have been massive amounts of complaints and serious lobbying to get them out of the system.

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    Mute Sean Ahearne
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    Aug 4th 2024, 8:48 AM

    Time to ban people from our roads and leave it to the cars, buses, trucks, scooters, motorbikes,. Who needs people?

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    Aug 4th 2024, 9:10 AM

    @Sean Ahearne: I know your comment is sarcasm. But take all those vehicles off the roads how long do you think our economy will last? People need all those vehicles to keep this country ticking over.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:04 PM

    @Ger Whelan: No they don’t. Not within any of the Irish Cities. Cop yerself on!
    A couple of bikes and scooters, yes, on “second tier” roadway thoroughfares a distance from the central/core inner city, maybe. Otherwise – main thoroughfares for Pedestrians only with limited low speed Public Transport, Adapted/Accessibility Private Cars, pre-registered pre-booked Trades Vans (daytime) and deliveries only in non-peak hours with a sole exception for heritage enterprise transports (Guinness deliveries down Quays).

    Outside of Cities, obviously, use of private vehicles will remain part of core private and economic activity.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 10:34 AM

    They are not banned in Paris, I was there last month, only the rental scheme ones are discontinued.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:14 PM

    And before u know it, there will be gangs e scooting drugs up and down green ways that are currently been tarmac (ed) between towns in Ireland.. just asking for trouble while Gardai sit in their cars on the road

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:36 PM

    @Brian O’Connor: Already are, drug dealers delight as one person explained to me.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 10:50 AM

    Things should be banned from sale or hire in ireland

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    Aug 4th 2024, 11:23 AM

    @DC: I agree, ban everything

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:08 PM

    If I or someone else was riding a motorcycle or car onto footpath you be arrested. In court under law it’s mechanically propelled. So inconsiderate, not all but majority are arrogant

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    Aug 4th 2024, 5:01 PM

    I hear you get one free with every council house

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    Aug 5th 2024, 1:38 PM

    @Paul: You might need to see a doctor as you are hearing things.
    Don’t listen to those voices, they are not telling you the truth.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 10:23 AM

    lmao… Ireland, mystic land forged by the word ‘no’

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    Aug 4th 2024, 2:07 AM

    Scooter,yeh right..I’m singing it?.

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    Aug 4th 2024, 7:47 AM

    @Will Q: how much is the fish

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:25 PM

    @Anthony Hilton: does the fish have chips?

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    Aug 4th 2024, 4:21 PM

    @Soundy Sound: yea and mushy peas too

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