A public bike scheme similar to that in Dublin is to be rolled out in Cork, Galway and Limerick this autumn.

THIS is how cycling should be.

The Department of Transport has announced the bike-share scheme for three Irish cities will be called “Coke Zero Bikes” after the soft drinks giant secured title sponsorship.

Limerick is getting its own bicycle-sharing scheme, based on the model of the hugely popular Dublin Bikes.

The annual Dublin Horse Show started in unconventional style yesterday with a bang and a bicycle.

It is hard to escape the conclusion that those leading the Dublin Bus strike are not blindly stuck in an intra-union 1970s timewarp when their predecessors could bully the public with impunity because there was little alternative to the State services across an inefficient city road network.

A directly-elected Lord Mayor in Dublin would have to be efficient and cost-effective to justify introducing the potential new office, it has been warned.

Top brass European delegates will get free passes for Dublin’s rental bikes for travelling to major events during Ireland’s EU presidency.

Subscribe and drive service company, GoCar, have opened new bases in Dublin and Cork, with a further five to open in the capital in the coming weeks.

Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford are in the running for a public bikes scheme similar to Dublin Bikes.

DUBLIN Lord Mayor Andrew Montague — a major advocate of cycling in his city — was forced to saddle up a different type of transport yesterday to attend the Dublin Horse Show.

IT’S 30 years, and the last deep recession/depression, since the then-British conservative MP Norman Tebbit effectively urged Britain’s unemployed to ‘Get on yer bike’, and go look for work instead of rioting.

One million cycle trips have been made on Dublin city’s bike scheme, making it one of the most successful in the world, it emerged today.