An hour and a half just to get from Newtownabbey to Sailortown — crawling along the M2. North Belfast deserves better. There should be rail halts at Abbey Centre and Loughside Park, served by a Circle Line. Stop widening roads. Start widening options. #BelfastCircleLine

Concrete Quarterly 56 – featuring the Northern Bank on the Antrim Rd. Note the “simplest of infilling”. “its frank use of the structural elements in naked concrete, allied with the simplest of infilling materials - smooth grey brick, asbestos cement…” concretecentre.com/getmedia/e0f04…

Geoffrey Copcut discussing The A5, Magee University and Innishowen national park in 1972. Steve Bradley 🇺🇦 discover.bbcrewind.co.uk/asset/5b8697af…

Most of Lough Neagh's problems boil doing it fundamentally being a public asset and, at the same time, not being treated as such. Stormont's shallow gesture politics - and magical thinking around the lough's predicament, more widely - is serving it poorly. Me in Irish Times Opinion

HERITAGE CYCLES on the Black Paths – We’re back out on the Black Paths – mixing a gentle cycle and looking at the development & history of Craigavon in partnership with ABC Council Fri 22nd Aug 7–9pm Sun 28th  Sept 1–3pm Sat 11th Oct 11–1pm FREE BOOK ➡️ cycul.cc/products/black…

How did The Open move 250K people? By Cycling UK Northern Ireland “there will be no public car parking available at Royal Portrush or the immediate surrounding area” “consider using public transport” “those staying in the local area should consider active travel”. sluggerotoole.com/2025/08/02/sol…

trending up… x.com/Rainmaker1973/…

NEWRY CYCLISTS WANTED Sunday 24 August at 2pm. Entrance to the Carlingford Lough Greenway. Bikes and Beats has become firmly established as one of Iúr Cinn Fleadh's most fun events, taking participants on a safe chilled out cycle around Newry city newry.ie/arts-and-enter…

PLDP applications are now live! Whether you have experience of policy, or want to develop new skills, then we strongly encourage you to sign up. Applications close at 5pm on 8 Sept. Follow the link below or scan the QR code in the video. pivotalpolicy.org/our-work/news-…

Ohhh...the things we could do if we put a lid on the Westlink.

Imagine if Belfast treated surface car parks - like the one on the corner of Hill Street - as opportunities instead of eyesores. They’re a blight on the city centre.

I have sought assurances from the Infrastructure Minister on the Belfast Circle Line and have received an update from Department for Transport on the funding of railway expansion. Read more here 👇 robinswannmp.com/post/swann-see…

The land of milk & slurry.

How could anyone possibly market this as a tourist destination?

Maghery slipway looking over to Coney Island yesterday. The land of milk & slurry. #LoughNeagh

More great news for the #BlackPaths – the new Moylinn Bridge is in place and should be operational very shortly. This span is roughly the same as the BridgeTheBannfoot – how much longer do we have to wait for that crossing? northernirelandworld.com/news/people/dr…

This is your reminder that the SDLP supported the disastrous Going for Growth strategy, which ramped up agriculture pollution into the Lough. Their minister also signed off on extraction of sand dredging on the Lough's bed. Don't gaslight the public.

“…John Wright erected it in 2012, not only to celebrate Iwona’s all-too-short life but to ‘haunt’ MLAs driving past en route to a Stormont chamber where ideas for improving cycling safety in Northern Ireland are rarely discussed…” #IwonaZakierska belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…