{"id":649521,"date":"2026-08-21T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/649521\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:22:28","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/649521\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS WEEK, WE heard from our readers on the triple lock and road safety. Have something to say? See our letter guidelines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/letters-to-the-editor-2-7026278-Jun2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wrong-way driving<\/p>\n<p>Wrong-way driving is not confined to early hours on motorways. Like every experienced driver, I\u2019ve had plenty of near-misses with oncoming cars on single-lane roads, both rural and suburban.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed a disturbing trend in recent years: drivers pulling out to give a cyclist a \u201clittle bit of space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly they\u2019ve been influenced by that well-meaning RSA ad from eight years ago \u2013 but unfortunately it\u2019s not \u201ca lot more safe\u201d for other drivers.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent incident, I was driving on the old Bray road from Bray to Shankill, and a car coming in the opposite direction veered across the road right in front of me to avoid a cyclist who was right on the outer edge of the cycle path.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I\u2019m not suggesting motorists should closely pass cyclists. The common-sense advice is to hang back, chill, and don\u2019t pass until there\u2019s no oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclists, meanwhile, should consider discounting and walking beside their bikes on the footpath \/ verge for a few seconds to let a car pass on a narrow road.<\/p>\n<p>Geraldine Comiskey,<br \/>Dublin<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nBig questions<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/triple-lock-ireland-cabinet-poll-7064762-Jun2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Do you think Ireland should remove the Triple Lock?<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding Ireland\u2019s triple lock. Ireland has been officially neutral since 1937. But since 1973 it\u2019s now part of Europe. So it should accept the fact that it\u2019s not neutral any more and join the EU defence alliance. It need not provide troops \u2013 just the Atlantic areas \u2013 so the Russians can\u2019t rule the roost. That way Ireland can participate in a war if needed.<\/p>\n<p>John B Tobin,<br \/>Wexford<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you like to have a letter published? See guidelines for submission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/letters-to-the-editor-2-7026278-Jun2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIS WEEK, WE heard from our readers on the triple lock and road safety. Have something to say?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,34278,18,19,17,124639,11829,272528,263776],"class_list":["post-649521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-comments","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-triple-lock","tag-wrong-way-driving","tag-your-thoughts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117135130420307147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}