An underpass that will form part of the Great Western Greenway and allow greenway users to avoid crossing Westports N5 northern bypass at grade is due to open later this week.Cllr Peter Flynn (Fine Gael) said: Five years of lobbying and finally, its happening! The underpass connecting the greenway routes out of town to Atterish, and the main greenway to and from Newport will open in the coming week.The at-grade road crossing (pictured below) has been in place since the N5 Northern Relief Road opened as part of the wider N5 Westport to Turlough Road Project. The underpass was built as part of the project, but the northern connection to the underpass was not finished at the time.This might look like a relatively small piece of infrastructure, but for West Mayo it is a really important improvement, he said.Cllr Flynn said: For the past three years, cyclists and pedestrians have had to negotiate the N59 and Northern Relief Road. Frankly, it is a small miracle that we havent seen a serious accident on this section, particularly given the number of visitors using the greenway who were unfamiliar with the road layout.Thankfully, that is now history. People will have a safe route in and out of town exactly what greenway infrastructure should be about, he said.Cllr Flynn thanked Mayo County Council staff who worked and landowners who facilitated the works. And while we hear some politicians talking about greenways as if they are yesterdays infrastructure, I believe the opposite is true. We should be investing more in them, not less. Happily, we will see similar happening in Newport next year which again will be a massive addition to both locals and visitors, he said.Cllr Flynn added: A greenway is not just a tourist attraction. It is infrastructure for everyday life giving children a safer route to school, people a healthier way to get to work, families a safe way to get to the shops, and young and old a way to get to sporting and community facilities. It reduces car dependency, improves health and saves people money. That is why projects like this matter.

Im happy with my position councillor says when challenged by a local advocate.A Galway councillor, Cllr Shane Forde (Fine Gael), has vowed to block any future project to make roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists while hes still on the council.This morning he posted a photo of the September traffic on Castlepark Road on Facebook, and said: This is the direct result of multiple traffic lights on the new scheme and the taking away of the slip lane at ATU. Absolute disaster.In the comments section, David Corley, a Galway-based active travel and accessibility advocate, said: Much safer for pedestrians and cyclists now I look forward to seeing more of this safe infrastructure being rolled out across the city.Cllr Shane Forde said: You wont see anymore of it in Galway City East during my time on the council.Another member of the public said: Will there be a push back on the Monivea road? in reference to the Monivea Road (East) Active Travel Scheme, which is currently at its public consultation review stage. Cllr Forde said: Yes, and Ill be leading the charge.Other views on the page range from ripping the active travel project out to adjusting the traffic light sequence. In further comment, Corley said: Imagine a politician blocking safe travel infrastructure for children. What a bizarre stance to take, especially in light of the escalation in road deaths and serious injuriesCllr Forde replied: Im happy with my position. I think you believe you are the only parent in the world who worries about kids and safe infrastructure. I offered to canvas 100 houses with you and you can pick the homes around Ballybane, Ballybrit and Castlepark and see if anyone agrees with your perspective.He added: Im for active travel that includes Bus priority lanes and if it does not include this then our community doesnt want it.The idea that bus lanes have to be included in all active travel projects has been recurring in the area. In the consultation pages for the Monivea Road (East) Active Travel Scheme, Galway City Council has a Q&A including Why is no bus lane included? The councils response is: This project will also deliver upgraded facilities at all existing bus stops along the route. It will not include any bus lane, as this would require the compulsory purchase of properties including lands owned by local businesses and peoples front gardens.The Monivea Roadproject is planned to run the length of the road and links the new cycle paths on the Ballybane Road and Castlepark Road with the underpass to Parkmore Road.

Social Democrats Cllr says hes mystified by the delay, adds his party supported the trial. Weve now had two full summers with no action, campaigners say. A senior Dublin City Council official has told the councils mobility committee that plans for a Strand Road cycle path idea has not gone away.There is no clear publicly available reason for the city councils delay in implementing the trial, but. as this website reported earlier this year, sources claimed that Richard Shakespeare, chief executive at Dublin City Council, has got cold feet on the project. At the time, officials also said that they are still looking at optionsThe issue was raised again this month in a wider debate about the slow delivery of active travel routes in the Dublin City area. Cllr Karl Stanley (Social Democrats) said the active travel team are phenomenal, but the report is really concerning, before bringing up the issue of the Strand Road cycle path, which was to be delivered as a quick-build trial in 2021 before Sandymount residents blocked it after taking High Court action. The plan to build a two-way cycle path trial by making Strand Road and Beach Road one-way was eventually given the legal green light when the High Court ruling was overturned by the Court of Appeal in April 2025. The appeal court was highly critical of the High Court ruling. This month, when he asked for an update on what happened with Strand Road, which Cllr Stanley said seems to be off the table, but he said: I dont know what the rationale is for that, and I just want to get on the record that we as Social Democrats strongly supported this scheme when it came out, and Im mystified as to why it hasnt been delivered under the powers that we have.Cllr Stanley added: And if the answer is that it was just democratically unpopular locally, thats fine, but Id like to hear that answer as opposed to were just going to stop talking about this now.Siobhan McNamara, a representative of the Dublin Cycling Campaign, also raised the issue at the committee meeting.She said: A question I had, and somebody already beat me to it, but Im also curious about Strand Road and what the story is with that. Weve now had two full summers after Dublin City Council won their appeal. Two full summers where nothing has happened to make that very hostile road safe for vulnerable road users, and we in Dublin Cycling Campaign are very curious as to what the next steps are.Brendan OBrien, executive manager of Dublin City Councils traffic and transport department, said: Strand Road has not gone away as they say. We are working on it, and well be taking it to the area committee in due course. ALSO READ: Despite northbound closure of Strand Road, southsiders still find Dublin AirportSandymount traffic remained pretty constant while Irish Water had Merrion Gates blocked off northboundArmageddon forecast of traffic chaos when Strand Road made one-way hasnt happened, claims residents

Just 1.1km added to network in 2026 with 6km expected next year.LONG READ: Everybody is frustrated by the slow delivery of Dublin Citys active travel network, this months Mobility and Public Realm Committee was told, but councillors sounded at breaking point, with a number commenting that theyd be dead or long retired from politics before the network is finished. It relates to the 214 km of the network which is planned to be implemented by Dublin City Councils active travel office. Other projects such as BusConnects Core Routes, its infrastructure project, will deliver more of the network, topping out at around 314km. A report was compiled after the chair of the Mobility and Public Realm Committee, Cllr Janet Horner, asked the Active Travel Office for a report on their work, including an estimate of the time and cost to complete the network.The report said that between 2022 and 2025, Dublin City Council delivered approximately 13km of high-quality active travel infrastructure. This includes the Clontarf to City Centre Scheme and the Royal Canal Greenway phase 3, which went through the planning process in 2017 and 2015, respectively.The document, authored by Chris Manzira, acting director for the active travel programme office, said: A further 1.1 km of the network has been delivered in 2026 with an additional 4.2 km tendered for construction and 7.6km in the final stages of detailed design. Designs for another 12.7 km are at an advanced stage and could be tendered across 2027 and 2028. Beyond these projects, a further 41 km of the network are in the early design phase.He said that in 2022, Dublin City Council commissioned an independent quantity surveyor to prepare what he called a high-level cost estimate for delivery of the active travel network. This found a costing of between 7.5 and 13.1 million per kilometre, and would result in a total cost of 1.6 billion to 2.8 billion.This costing aligns with published 2024 estimates from the National Transport Authority (NTA), which suggest around 7 million per km for the upper end of the cost of full-build segregated active travel routes and more for junctions. Manzira wrote: The delivery of the network requires considerable consultation and engagement with communities, and it is not simply an engineering exercise. The ambition of the office is that now that the establishment phase is complete and there is a pipeline of designs that the delivery will accelerate. A delivery rate of 6 km a year would result in a delivery timeframe of 30 years.Obviously, if more kilometres can be delivered consistently each year this reduces the delivery time. This would require ongoing considerations informed by the extent of infrastructure improvements to be applied, such as level of public realm enhancements and utility services, and the funding levels available, noting that inflation will also impact overall cost of schemes, he said.At the committee meeting, Jason Cullen, chair of the Dublin Commuter Coalition, said; Theres some really astonishing numbers in there. Im going to start on the fact that its going to take 30 years to complete the 180km of cycle tracks It is just unacceptable to be presenting a 30-year plan for that. You have to speed up.Cllr Karl Stanley (Social Democrats) said the active travel team are phenomenal, but the report is really concerning.There has never been a year where weve delivered 6km a year. In 2026, it looks like were going to deliver 1.1km a year. So Im curious to know what steps the active travel team is taking to accelerate their pace so they can actually meet that time frame, which unfortunately I dont think is adequate, he said. On interim projects, he said: I was surprised to hear that interim schemes are now not allowed, or were not doing them anymore. Im curious to know if thats an official policy and whos driving that because I dont remember that ever being debated or discussed publicly.Zoe Baker, a representative of the Blend Residents Association, said: I just want to put across the disappointment thats been expressed by community groups along the North Circular Road and, in general, of uptake of ideas and opinions in a heritage area when dealing with the active travel team.It seems like budget is a factor, and to the point where you know, theres no point even consulting with the community if ideas and opinions arent taken on board and its just down to the NTAs budget line, she said. So if were going to really maintain the level of consultation and engagement, we really need to be, you know, pushing for really the uptake of their ideas. Cllr Paddy Monahan (Social Democrats) said: I was also curious about the move away from interim schemes. It seems like were really doubling down on bigger and bigger schemes and, just looking at the raw figures in the report there, theyre absolutely eye-watering.When it comes to finances, Im wary that roads are extremely expensive but rarely criticised and things like bicycle parking and hospitals are politically opportunistic. People will have a pop with them. So, the raw figures are hard to put in context, he said.Cllr Monahan said: But when youre talking about 30 years, I mean, that its that figure that really hurts my head that my kid is going to be in his 40s that Ill be 80 by the time were talking about this getting done. And then, as other people have mentioned, we dont have a great track record of 30-year planning for schemes in Ireland. So, Id have severe doubts either about it going ahead or about it being anything like the costs that were looking at now. Cllr Hazel Chu (Green Party) said she knows that the team works really hard, but looking at this summer where the world is melting, and our active travel programme and network in the city is completely out of step with the climate and transport crisis that we have to address, and thats very clear.Cllr Donna Cooney (Green Party) said: I know youre [the active travel team] working really hard, but I just Id like to know the reasons why its taking so long to get the projects built.She said that councillors were aware that it would take time to set up an active travel office and get staff in place in the early stages, but that they understood that after that the roll-out would be much quicker.Cllr Cooney said: I dont think Ill be around in 30 years time to see this through to fruition, and Id like to see my youngest to be not in his 40s either before this happens. So I suppose its a bit depressing. She said, with quicker-build schemes which the councils active travel team has all but abandoned, youre getting the benefits of some safe cycling in the interim rather than us having to wait 30 years.And were building developments based on the fact that were going to have active travel routes in them on Richmond Road, for instance. And we have been told were not even going to look at that until post-2028. Yet all these developments with thousands and thousands of bike parking spaces are based on the fact that people will be able to cycle when they cannot do that at the moment because its not safe, said Cllr Cooney.Dr Caoimhe Clarke of the Irish Doctors for the Environment referred to an NTA report on the benefits of active travel, but she said that the return to the Exchequer would not be seen without a network of routes.She said: As the doctor in the room, were not going to see the health benefits unless all of these active travel networks are in place ASAP. We know we have the stats from years ago, and when we talk about if people are cycling or taking public transport or walking instead of taking their car, that has huge health benefits in terms of chronic illness, mental illness, and physical health illnesses.Robbie Sinnott, who is one of the founders of the Voice of Vision Impairment, a disabled persons representative organisation (DPRO), said: I firstly have to absolutely commend the amazingly brilliant, I think its a model in terms of consultation with DPROs in terms of UNCRPD (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) compliant disability proofing; its absolutely exceptional, and its taken a while to get there, but it is absolutely fantastic, so like thats the first thing, and so theres fair play.Unfortunately, its happening within a rubric policy framework that has not been disability proofed, he claimed.He again as he has done on previous occasions argued against the use of raised crossings and continuous footpaths. He claimed they were less safe, although these kinds of traffic-calming measures are widely seen as safer and more accessible, with international research pointing to the same. Cllr Horner (Green Party), chairperson of the committee, said: The reason for putting this report in the kind of framing of our current level of delivery broken down by kilometres and looking at the cost expenditure is that element that we can see clearly that we are not delivering at the pace that we anticipated we would be a number of years ago when the active travel office was launched.We continue to face significant challenges. Weve got a development plan that sets targets for the modal shift. As I understand it, we are not on course for walking and cycling. We are on course for public transport because things like the 2 fare were so successful, but obviously thats not on the cards right now, she said.Cllr Horner said: We have targets that we are not hitting, and our current strategy in order to hit them is the investment in the infrastructure, and the active travel network. At our current pace, we will not be delivering that. Similarly, BusConnects has moved significantly slower than I think anyone in the NTA would have anticipated it was going to.The report helps us to see clearly that there is an issue there in terms of our expenditure versus actual progress and delivery. But we have to, as a city council, recognise what those barriers are, what we need to overcome and whether theres something we need to bring, whether its to the minister or to the NTA or where it might be, to say this is actually how we need to get back on track with how we deliver appropriately for the city, she added.Manzira, the acting director for the active travel programme office, said: In terms of the time it takes to deliver a scheme, going through the design process and the governance process for the individual projects, we are looking at two to three years generally, depending on the complexity of the scheme, and theres various processes and approvals, theres stakeholder engagement, including other statutory bodies, utility companies, and then, of course, there is the non-statutory public consultation that we use and then reviewing that.So thats generally the time frame for bringing a scheme through. The more complex the scheme, the longer it takes, and there is an opportunity there for us to try and speed up delivery on some sections where we have a long stretch, and one of the things we have started doing is to break up some of these schemes so that we can deliver a little bit quicker and try and still have continuity.Manzira said that this is something the active travel team has done on the Kilmainham to Thomas Street Active Travel Scheme, where the project, including the delivered section around St Jamess Walk, is split up into sections. He said: We are doing something similar as well on the Grand Canal from Portobello to Blackhorse Bridge.He said, subject to approval, the active travel department may go to tender on another project or two before the end of the year.On the interim schemes one of the things that has become apparent is that when you put some of the interim schemes and then the effort that needs to go in for the ongoing maintenance of some of those measures to try and manage that and also try and deliver new schemes. It would then become a challenge, and wed be getting occasional complaints in some areas. So that means that we are now just focusing on the permanent schemes that was the driver on that decision, Manzira said.He admitted there were budget constraints with doing everything residents want, but gave examples of design changes where public consultation on the North Circular Road project changed the design. Manzira added: In terms of how we are prioritising our schemes. The focus is on trying to get continuous links, and it might be that when we are coming out to construction we are doing small segments of it and that is because there is a segment that we see ourselves being able to get started on quicker and well come back to do the other [sections].Cllr Horner said that there was a need for a course correction and called the current situation has prompted a sense of frustration among councillors where the network will not be delivered within their political lifetimes, if not our actual lifetimes.Celina Barrett, assistant chief executive covering transportation and public realm for Dublin City Council, said: Were not setting six kilometres as our target. I suppose maybe whats lost in the report because of all the numbers is the acceleration that the team, the acceleration phase the team are in terms of whats planned for next year. We hope to build on the delivery from next year and move on from that.She said that they are engaging with the NTA and with other council departments, including road maintenance and when maintenance is being done on a road, they are looking at a road, they ask: Is there an opportunity to deliver parts of the cycle scheme with that?She said: Were also looking at ways that we can reduce costs and deliver faster. So, were saying six kilometres because were confident that we can achieve that next year, but we want to build on that ambition. So were not saying six kilometres as a limiting factor.We are doing a lot of work internally. We recognise the frustration, and the team are frustrated as well because they want to be delivering. But we think the team has developed to the point where we now have a pipeline, and we have a focused pipeline. So we want to set the delivery targets for next year and have projects rolling behind that, she said.

A new article by economist Colm McCarthy against the planned 19km MetroLink from central Dublin to Swords has prompted a call for newspapers to fact-check their columnists.Councillor Feljin Jose, the Green Partys spokesperson on transport, made the call after McCarthy wrongly claimed in the Sunday Business Post today that The only available evaluation of MetroLinks costs and benefits was released as part of the TIIs preliminary assessment in 2022.Cllr Jose said: Newspapers should be required to fact-check their columnists. Anti-train columnist Colm McCarthy claims that the only publicly available cost-benefit analysis of MetroLink is from a preliminary assessment in 2022. An updated cost-benefit analysis was published last week.The MetroLink Detailed Business Case Submission to the National Transport Authority dated September 2026 was published online and has been the subject of much reporting in the last week. The cost-estimated figures from that were used in McCarthys latest article, which wrongly claims the last assessment was published years ago.McCarthy has previously argued against Luas and Dart. In the Business Post today, he wrote that the current cost estmate is around 16 billion when compared to an initial estimate of just 2 billion when the project was revived over twenty years ago and to 3 billion as recently as 2018, Today he also wrote that Cities cited as examples for Dublin include London, Paris and several others with far higher populations, greater traffic densities and fixed-line public transport inherited from the nineteenth century. But as IrishCycle.com covered late last year, 57 metro rail systems across Europe serve cities of varying sizes, many similar in size to Dublin.He has in this article and previous ones also claimed that Dublin has a low population density, but metro systems have been built in cities with a similar population density.McCarthy spends a large part of his most recent article focused on Dublin Airport when it is just one of 16 stations on the planned line. The proposed line is roughly parallel to the Dublin Port Tunnel, built and paid for, host to frequent bus services to both Dublin Airport and Swords. Critics of MetroLink fear that airport traffic will be pointlessly diverted to a rail line costing 16 billion which offers no improvement on current 25 minute bus journey times, direct to the terminals. Where precisely are the benefits? said McCarthy, as if the route was only being built for the airport, and the bus routes which go via the Port Tunnel are not also subject to congestion at both ends.Away from very limited trips between the quays and Dublin Airport, even express buses to the airport are much slower than MetroLink will be. For example, from St Stephens Green to the airport, Dublin Express is timetabled at 50 minutes; MetroLink is expected to take around 25-30 minutes for the same trip, and around 20 minutes from OConnell Street to the airport. Unlike the Port Tunnel routes, MetroLink will have a number of stops and connections in Dublin City inside the M50, where 10 of the 16 stations will be located. MetroLink will also connect to the planned Dart+ West and South West lines at a new interchange station in Glasneven.

Construction workers this week were busy working on a section of the new cycle path between the Liffey Cycle Route at City Quay and the Clontarf route at Connolly Station on Amiens Street.The active work sites are currently around the Talbot Memorial Bridge, where the footpath on the western side is to be widened and a two-way cycle path will be provided beside it, and along the east edge of Custom House, where the contra-flow cycle track and a traffic lane are to be transformed into part of the two-way cycle path.IMAGES: Main image, works on the Talbot Memorial Bridge, and directly above, an artists impression of the cycle path and wider footpath.As previously reported, once finished, the new cycle path will allow for a direct, segregated route over 12km from OConnell Bridge to Sutton Cross.The cycle path is part of this years planned Dublin City Centre Transport Plan measures and will include a unique feature for Ireland: a two-way cycle path in the centre of a street, protected by large planters.The project will start at the current southern end of the Clontarf to City Centre route outside Connolly Station. At this point there will be a traffic-light-controlled switch-over to a new two-way cycle path running in the middle of Amiens Street. The two-way cycle path in the centre of the road will have no points where motorists can cross over it.The route will then run on the east side of the traffic island between Busras, Custom House and the IFSC, before crossing over to the east side of Custom House and finally running along the Talbot Memorial Bridge where it will link with the two-way cycle path on the South Quays from the Docklands to OConnell Bridge.Images of progress so far:As these photos were taken on Thursday afternoon show, a lane on the Talbot Memorial Bridge is being used to build the cycle path:While the cycle path will be mainly planter-protected, concrete islands are being built at junctions: A new bus lane has been marked out from the cycle path location along the east side of Custom House: The rest of the area planned for the cycle path is currently fenced off ahead of work getting underway:MORE: Two-way cycle path in middle of roadway on Amiens Street to link Clontarf route to quays

Its not the first Dutch-style roundabout in Ireland, but a roundabout on Templeville Road in Dublin is the first Dutch-like design to be retrofitted at an existing busy roundabout. The roundabout is adjacent to Templeogue College, where Templeville Road meets Wainsfort Road and Cypress Grove Road.As reported in 2023, Irelands first Dutch-style roundabout was opened on Church Fields Link Road in Mulhuddart, Dublin 15. Fingal County Council built it as part of a new road supporting housing development.Now, South Dublin County Council has built the new roundabout as part of the Templeville Road Phase 2 Section 38 project. The project links the existing cycle tracks on Templeville Road, and others off it, with the Dodder Greenway.While typically on a Dutch-style roundabout the cycle path is circular, this is not always the case. This can sometimes be by design on green-field sites and at other times due to space restraints on one or more sides of a roundabout. The cycle path on the Templeville Road example is an irregular octagon.The new roundabout is designed to replace the previous setup of unprotected painted lanes on the roundabout and the lack of priority for pedestrians.The new design includes zebra crossings with parallel cycling-priority crossings on raised platforms. The two-lane entry points to the roundabout have also been replaced with single-lane entry points, which is safer for people walking and cycling.IMAGE: The roundabout layout before the changes (Photo: Google).IMAGE: The new roundabout while work was ongoing and before the crossings were painted (Photo: Paving contractor, DM Morris)In a pre-construction statement from South Dublin County Council, officials said: The proposed roundabout will realise significant improvements for vulnerable road users commuting and travelling to schools and other amenities in the area. The existing [layout] allowed for higher speeds and did not provide for vulnerable road users. The area is highlighted as an area with a high incidence of collisions.The council said that the Templeville Wainsfort Roundabout is recorded by the RSA as a significant locus of collisions for cyclists. The map below from collisiontracker.ie shows a large number of collisions at the roundabout (note: coloured entries are manual ones reported by users and can be near misses, while the dark dots represent both minor and serious collisions).After complaints about large vehicles such as trucks and coaches using the roundabout while it was still under construction, some changes were made, including widening some of the exit points and enlarging areas of the large vehicle overspill area at the centre of the carriageway circle.As per the video above, when IrishCycle.com visited the roundabout mid-morning on Friday, motorists generally yielded. This is consistent with motorist behaviour on smaller and non-standard cycle-priority roundabouts in Limerick as well as on an experimental and short-lived roundabout design previously rolled out at the Killiney Towers Roundabout near Dalkey.The newly built roundabout at Templeville Road seems to provide good sightlines between cyclists and motorists entering and exiting the carriageway circle, overcoming one of the main issues at the Killiney Towers Roundabout where the angle at which cycle path and carragway users met often required motorists to make awkward head movements to see the cycle track.The project also includes significant footpath renewal and new raised cycle tracks between the roundabout and the Dodder Greenway at Dodder View Road, just north of the Rathfarnham Shopping Centre.Away from the roundabout, some elements of the project have yet to be finished, including where the route crosses Templeogue Road. The junction at Templeogue Road is not due to be significantly changed, as more major changes there are planned as part of the BusConnect Core Route project that is due to run along that road.Images:Images of the cycle track along Templeville Road and an example of a side road junction treatment:

A man in his 80s has died yesterday in hospital due to injuries sustained in a collision involving a car driver on the R341 Ballyconneely Road in Clifden, Co Galway on Monday, September 21st.The collision involving a car and a bicycle occurred at approximately 2:40pm. The cyclist, a man in his 80s, was brought by ambulance to University Hospital Galway for treatment of serious injuries. He was since pronounced deceased on Wednesday 23rd September 2026, a Garda spokesperson said.Garda said they are renewing their appeal for anyone who witnessed the collision to come forward.A Garda spokesperson said: Road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, and were travelling in the area of the R341 between Ballyconneely and Roundstone between 2:15pm and 3:00pm on Monday 21st September 2026, are asked to make this available to investigating Garda.Anyone with information or footage is asked to contact Clifden Garda Station on 095 22500, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.

A new website promoting Irelands greenways mostly rural shared walking and cycling routes has been launched by the Department of Transport.Greenways.gov.ie includes route information and maps for most of Irelands longer greenways.The website includes details such as the distance, elevation, estimated travel times, the surface finish of the greenways, and the facilities available along different parts of routes, including public transport access, park and ride and toilets.As well as the online map, each route also has a PDF map and a GPX track which can be loaded into mapping apps.While there are warnings about surfacings, there are no warnings about restrictive barriers, which exclude many users and make it harder for loaded touring cyclists.Current inaccuraciesThe online mapping for the South Kerry Greenway on the website accurately shows how only some sections are built. But then confusingly uses solid green lines for sections of greenways which are not yet finished, including the Dublin 15 section of the Royal Canal Greenway and the Dublin City section of the Grand Canal Greenway.On the Grand Canal Greenway, the map warns of sections currently closed, but on the Carlingford Lough Greenway there is no such warning for the large closure and detour into a busy main road due to the construction of the Narrow Water Bridge.The website also inaccurately shows a mud surface on sections of the Royal Canal towpath in Dublin 15 that were recently repaved with a dust surface finish.

A man in his 80s remains seriously injured in hospital after a collision involving a car driver in Clifden, Co Galway on Monday.A spokesperson for the Garda Press Office said: Garda are appealing for witnesses following a serious injury road traffic collision that occurred on the R341 Ballyconneely Road in Clifden, Co Galway on Monday 21st September 2026.The collision involving a car and a bicycle occurred at approximately 2:40pm, the spokesperson said.Garda said that the man in his 80s was brought by ambulance to University Hospital Galway for treatment of serious injuries. They said that he remains in a critical condition and that no other injuries were reported at the time of the collision.Garda are seeking anyone who witnessed the collision to contact them.A Garda spokesperson added: Road users who may have camera footage, including dash-cam, and were travelling in the area of the R341 between Ballyconneely and Roundstone between 2:15pm and 3:00pm on Monday 21st September 2026, are asked to make this available to investigating Garda.Anyone with information or footage is asked to contact Clifden Garda Station on 095 22500, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.