A cycle from Dungarvan to Waterford on a greenway was just what the spin doctor ordered

IT was good to see the other side of cycling in Ireland. Two weeks after the Velo-city cycling conference, I was in need of a different news-cycle.

How mortified we all were when these happy, positive Continental delegates arrived off the ferry and were thrust into the Dublin war-zone of cycle lanes that end in a wall and of a car-driving population whipped up into an anti-cycling frenzy by morning talk radio ‘just starting a conversation’.