Mike Spillane
@spillanemike.com
Cork, cycling, tech, data, beer, bread, cheese, car free, cranky bollox, sometimes Connemara
mastodon @[email protected]
#cork #cycling
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#cork #cycling
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Mike Spillane
@spillanemike.com
· Nov 23
Antonia's Bookstore
Independent Bookshop based in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
buff.ly
I don't buy from Amazon, so I try to buy books from Irish stores (where possible) (posted similar previously)
Here are my go to stores
antoniasbookstore.com
booksatone.ie
alanhannas.com
philipsbookshop.com
gutterbookshop.com
kennys.ie
vibesandscribes.ie
#independentBookshopsIreland
#supportLocal
Here are my go to stores
antoniasbookstore.com
booksatone.ie
alanhannas.com
philipsbookshop.com
gutterbookshop.com
kennys.ie
vibesandscribes.ie
#independentBookshopsIreland
#supportLocal
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It's good to see Bishop Lucey Park open again and there are some nice elements but overall it's rather charmless, cluttered and over-engineered. Strap yourself in for a rollercoaster ride of a thread (1/n)🧵 #Cork
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's good to see Bishop Lucey Park open again and there are some nice elements but overall it's rather charmless, cluttered and over-engineered. Strap yourself in for a rollercoaster ride of a thread (1/n)🧵 #Cork
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Have your say if you think animal welfare includes not giving a penny of public money to subsidising Greyhound racing.
Send submissions to: [email protected]
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Send submissions to: [email protected]
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Have your say if you think animal welfare includes not giving a penny of public money to subsidising Greyhound racing.
Send submissions to: [email protected]
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Send submissions to: [email protected]
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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I have views on the refurb of Bishop Lucey Park but will outline them another day. In the meantime, here's the extension of the masonic lodge into the park on public land sold for €1. #Cork
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I have views on the refurb of Bishop Lucey Park but will outline them another day. In the meantime, here's the extension of the masonic lodge into the park on public land sold for €1. #Cork
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Two things:
1. Stop taking photos of presentations that are presented in landscape during a session using a phone in portrait orientation,
2. Get rid of those Dyson combined water and air-dryer taps.
#Speirgorm
1. Stop taking photos of presentations that are presented in landscape during a session using a phone in portrait orientation,
2. Get rid of those Dyson combined water and air-dryer taps.
#Speirgorm
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Two things:
1. Stop taking photos of presentations that are presented in landscape during a session using a phone in portrait orientation,
2. Get rid of those Dyson combined water and air-dryer taps.
#Speirgorm
1. Stop taking photos of presentations that are presented in landscape during a session using a phone in portrait orientation,
2. Get rid of those Dyson combined water and air-dryer taps.
#Speirgorm
There's a place in hell (if it exists) for fuckers who put their feet on seats of buses or trains.
Ps bus eireann any chance you'd steam clean the seats on the buses, they're manky... Míle Buíochas
Ps bus eireann any chance you'd steam clean the seats on the buses, they're manky... Míle Buíochas
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
There's a place in hell (if it exists) for fuckers who put their feet on seats of buses or trains.
Ps bus eireann any chance you'd steam clean the seats on the buses, they're manky... Míle Buíochas
Ps bus eireann any chance you'd steam clean the seats on the buses, they're manky... Míle Buíochas
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The ‘heart’ of this space is, in a word, bleak. Gone is a significant portion of green space, replaced by an expanse of gravel. This can be a pleasant surface in urban parks but only when in a successful ratio to soft surfaces.
Additional seating and overall colouration are positives.
Additional seating and overall colouration are positives.
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The ‘heart’ of this space is, in a word, bleak. Gone is a significant portion of green space, replaced by an expanse of gravel. This can be a pleasant surface in urban parks but only when in a successful ratio to soft surfaces.
Additional seating and overall colouration are positives.
Additional seating and overall colouration are positives.
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“The national investment will largely be focused on cycle highways connecting rural villages and suburban areas with metropolitan centres, providing access to jobs, healthcare and education.”
Imagine how transformative this approach would be in Ireland. #speirgorm #spéirgorm
Imagine how transformative this approach would be in Ireland. #speirgorm #spéirgorm
The Netherlands is to invest up to €1 billion in cycling infrastructure to connect hundreds of thousands of new homes nationwide.
Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/dutch...
Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/dutch...
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“The national investment will largely be focused on cycle highways connecting rural villages and suburban areas with metropolitan centres, providing access to jobs, healthcare and education.”
Imagine how transformative this approach would be in Ireland. #speirgorm #spéirgorm
Imagine how transformative this approach would be in Ireland. #speirgorm #spéirgorm
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Well, here we are.
Bishop Lucey Park has reopened after a two-year closure and redesign. And it’s very good to have this space available again.
I’m trying very hard to find the positives (there are some), but overall it is a sad failure for the public and for urban green space in Cork.
Bishop Lucey Park has reopened after a two-year closure and redesign. And it’s very good to have this space available again.
I’m trying very hard to find the positives (there are some), but overall it is a sad failure for the public and for urban green space in Cork.
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Well, here we are.
Bishop Lucey Park has reopened after a two-year closure and redesign. And it’s very good to have this space available again.
I’m trying very hard to find the positives (there are some), but overall it is a sad failure for the public and for urban green space in Cork.
Bishop Lucey Park has reopened after a two-year closure and redesign. And it’s very good to have this space available again.
I’m trying very hard to find the positives (there are some), but overall it is a sad failure for the public and for urban green space in Cork.
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Bishop Lucy Park has been altered for the worst in a €7 million ‘upgrade’ that has turned it from a park into a gravel path. Very real environmental concerns here. Less greenery all round, poor drainage, removal of trees, very little grass for people to sit on or bugs to populate.
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Bishop Lucy Park has been altered for the worst in a €7 million ‘upgrade’ that has turned it from a park into a gravel path. Very real environmental concerns here. Less greenery all round, poor drainage, removal of trees, very little grass for people to sit on or bugs to populate.
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I'd love to "debate" why their MEPs voted with the far right to allow migrants drown in the Med, but no-one in Fine Gael ever seems to want to talk about that.
It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I'd love to "debate" why their MEPs voted with the far right to allow migrants drown in the Med, but no-one in Fine Gael ever seems to want to talk about that.
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Brilliant to see my daughter Sabine’s first article in print in the Ham & High www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/255880..., telling her story about the day she stopped waiting for the bus – and started saving £1,000 a year.
1/7
1/7
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Brilliant to see my daughter Sabine’s first article in print in the Ham & High www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/255880..., telling her story about the day she stopped waiting for the bus – and started saving £1,000 a year.
1/7
1/7
Not a bad way to spend a Saturday
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Not a bad way to spend a Saturday
Credit to @kerrycoco.ie , embracing bluesky and mastadon 👏🏻
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Credit to @kerrycoco.ie , embracing bluesky and mastadon 👏🏻
If you've had the misfortune of meeting me you'll no doubt have heard me talk about bicycles or my cargo bike.
This is a great video from @sirichardson.bsky.social on the Elevate project about real world usage of cargo bikes with usage by regular people
youtu.be/KJ0Ki9pTzLQ?...
This is a great video from @sirichardson.bsky.social on the Elevate project about real world usage of cargo bikes with usage by regular people
youtu.be/KJ0Ki9pTzLQ?...
What Happens When Real People Try e-Cargo Bikes?
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
If you've had the misfortune of meeting me you'll no doubt have heard me talk about bicycles or my cargo bike.
This is a great video from @sirichardson.bsky.social on the Elevate project about real world usage of cargo bikes with usage by regular people
youtu.be/KJ0Ki9pTzLQ?...
This is a great video from @sirichardson.bsky.social on the Elevate project about real world usage of cargo bikes with usage by regular people
youtu.be/KJ0Ki9pTzLQ?...
Cork City Council's annual reminder that parking enforcement is just for Christmas and not for the other eleven months of year
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Cork City Council's annual reminder that parking enforcement is just for Christmas and not for the other eleven months of year
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The discourse pendulum has moved to Met Éireann not issuing enough warnings. Made by the same people who complained about warnings and "sure didn't it rain a lot back in 1974 and nobody died (other than the ones who did) ?".
Thankfully the fearless amateurs are taking up the slack.
#Speirgorm
Thankfully the fearless amateurs are taking up the slack.
#Speirgorm
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The discourse pendulum has moved to Met Éireann not issuing enough warnings. Made by the same people who complained about warnings and "sure didn't it rain a lot back in 1974 and nobody died (other than the ones who did) ?".
Thankfully the fearless amateurs are taking up the slack.
#Speirgorm
Thankfully the fearless amateurs are taking up the slack.
#Speirgorm
In a desperate attempt to see if I can get better internet speeds I signed up for a 5g sim only plan and bought a 5g router (cudy p5)
Desperate times and measures and all that.
It does give me the chance to configure the protectli vault I got ages ago 😳
Desperate times and measures and all that.
It does give me the chance to configure the protectli vault I got ages ago 😳
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In a desperate attempt to see if I can get better internet speeds I signed up for a 5g sim only plan and bought a 5g router (cudy p5)
Desperate times and measures and all that.
It does give me the chance to configure the protectli vault I got ages ago 😳
Desperate times and measures and all that.
It does give me the chance to configure the protectli vault I got ages ago 😳
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A great day for the far right in the EP. #FirewallDown
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A great day for the far right in the EP. #FirewallDown
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'We want to get away from yearly targets', says the Government that has been missing housing targets for years.
“Why is there no annual targets in this plan?”
“Because we are focused on activation,” Minister for Housing James Browne says.
“We want to get away from yearly targets,” he adds.
@thejournal.ie
“Because we are focused on activation,” Minister for Housing James Browne says.
“We want to get away from yearly targets,” he adds.
@thejournal.ie
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
'We want to get away from yearly targets', says the Government that has been missing housing targets for years.
Not much left of Vernon Mount House these days
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Not much left of Vernon Mount House these days
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Why don't those bloody cyclists use the cycle-lanes.
Reason # 7,032
Reason # 7,032
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Why don't those bloody cyclists use the cycle-lanes.
Reason # 7,032
Reason # 7,032
A thug, that is all
Independent Ireland TD Michael Collins claimed "the shit was frightened out of" Transport Infrastructure Ireland today during a committee appearance in relation to CPOs and greenways.
"Remember one thing, Cromwell is gone," the Cork TD told protesters.
jrnl.ie/6872252t
"Remember one thing, Cromwell is gone," the Cork TD told protesters.
jrnl.ie/6872252t
Independent Ireland leader claims 'sh*t frightened out of' TII during committee appearance
A protest against compulory land purchases for greenways took place outside Leinster House this afternoon.
jrnl.ie
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A thug, that is all