3000 detected speeding & more than 160 people arrested for intoxicated driving over St Brigid’s weekend 🤦🏻‍♀️😞 irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024…

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Nice to see Blue Zones celebrated in the Irish Independent today! This is about ensuring healthy policies, healthy people & healthy places. 💙 Mary McCarthy: Ignore the new-year health zealots and just watch this documentary on living happier, longer lives independent.ie/opinion/commen…

We left the US 10 years ago today. 10 years car-free! Mt Rainier 2013 and Bray Head 2023.

In memory of Shane MacGowan. RIP. ‘Triad for Shane MacGowan’ by Derek Mahon.

My son’s lap is the perfect napping spot.
Talk about KPIs, I raised a kid who does this. I couldn’t be prouder. 😻 ♥️

How I love, love, love celebrating this holiday! #gratitude #family #feast 🍁

Congratulations to Professor Jo-Hanna Ivers Linda Doyle @TCDdeanresearch Trinity College Dublin for launching Trinity’s 2024-2026 Civic Engagement for Societal Impact Action Plan! 🎉

I am delighted to be joining ⁦⁦Blue Zones⁩ in this role. I will truly miss wonderful colleagues at ⁦⁦Trinity College Dublin⁩ who have been inspiring champions of #EngagedResearch for #SocietalImpact . Thank you for the wonderful goodbye gathering. ♥️ linkedin.com/posts/bluezone…

Turning our cities into vibrant hubs for the future means stakeholders must work together now. Nice read. I’d add other disciplines too … preservation, public works, emergency response, youth, landowners, etc independent.ie/business/small…

7 years ago, Niall’s appendix ruptured as we waited in the ED to be seen & he ended up w a nasty infection & prolonged hospital stay. One highlight was the Kilkenny Camogie team visiting the kids to share their win. These remarkable women made a big difference that day 💛

Although hard to define, Narrative CVs are changing how we think about researcher assessment

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THIS! 👇🏻 it’s the cost of the daily auto commute that’s the real killer: sinking time into an expensive (personally & environmentally) routine that actually diminishes your health & well-being & makes you too tired or time-poor for healthier choices. Sad. fastcompany.com/3062989/50-rea…

Since 2016, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to support Blue Zones in its community engagement and policy services. Check out “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones” on Netflix. Episode 4 shows some of our team’s built environment efforts! netflix.com/us/title/81214…

“In order to make transportation safer, Ederer says, engineers and policymakers can’t expect much progress from individuals changing their behavior. Instead, the transportation system should be altered to reduce the overall risk people face when using it.” governing.com/transportation…

Relevant in Ireland too. “Sidewalk chaos isn’t intentional. It happens because no one is empowered with the wide-angle lens necessary to cohesively see and address all of the sidewalk’s users and functions.”
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This is a great team with a fantastic work programme! A truly wonderful opportunity!

We've over 160k vacant homes in Ireland, 48,000 of which are empty since 2016
If we took this Amsterdam approach of fining owners €9000 per home we would see a lot of homes come back into use & raise some serious money to tackle #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #HousingCrisis

Your periodic reminder of what private property you can and cannot store in public space.

(Cartoon by Dave Walker)

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