Monthly Archives: October 2012

The Department of Transport’s 2009 National Transport Policy Framework has an ambitious target to get 10 per cent of all commuters cycling by 2020 – aided by tax incentives under the Cycle to Work Scheme, which IBBA says resulted in the sale of 90,000 bicycles between 2009 and 2011.

Under the scheme, employers can buy a bike up to €1,000 for employees to cycle to work and recover the cost from the employees’ pre-tax salary over the next 12 months.

With no benefit-in-kind taxation, employees can save up to 52 per cent of the cost of the bike.

 

And then it gets nicked.

Number Of Cycling Commuters Rises Dramatically (Frank McDonald, Irish Times)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

From Brand New Retro:

Jimmy Savlle in the Television Club, Harcourt Street, on a fund-raising visit to Dublin in May,1968.

The visit afforded him two features in consecutive editions of New Spotlight magazine. All photos here.

That’s Larry Gogan (pic 1) and Tony Kenny and the Sands Showband (Pic 2). Can you name the rest?

Brand New Retro

Meanwhile: Buyer Of Jimmy Savile’s Rolls-Royce ‘Gutted’ (Sky)

Also: Church’s regret Over Entertainer’s Papal Knighthood (CathNews)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fP_Z1W28R0

Canadian YouTuber Kyle Burton writes:

I talked my Grandma into developing her old 8mm movie. I’m happy I did because the footage is unreal. My grandfather would document each family vacation and this video tells the story of a family road trip though Ireland. I tried to edit the footage as unobtrusively as possible to tell his story. Includes Belfast, Antrim, Ventry, Dingle, County Donegal, Dungiven.

 

Music: Sigur Rós – Hoppípolla