Duncannon Village in County Wexford is excluded from having a scheduled, permanent Local Link service. The National Transport Authority (NTA) has consistently refused to add Duncannon to the service currently enjoyed by other communities in the area, despite sustainable transport for rural areas being a key component of the Government's Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan. Our community deserves to be treated fairly and have equal access to Local Link services. The DUNCANNON VILLAGE RENEWAL COMMITTEE and LOCAL RESIDENTS are organising a campaign to request that the NTA reconsider their decision, treat our community fairly, address this inequality, and provide Duncannon with a Local Link service.   Many people in and around Duncannon do not have access to personal transport. This lack of access affects particularly elderly and young people. A scheduled, sustainable, permanent Local Link service would hugely enhance their quality of life, enabling everyone to access essential amenities and travel quickly and safely to other places not covered by Bus Eireann services. It would also help young people to socialise and attend activities outside of school. Sustainable, scheduled public transport helps to prevent isolation, build community cohesion and strengthen bonds.  The General Manager of TFI (Transport For Ireland) Local Link, Wexford, has been very supportive and has petitioned the NTA board to add Duncannon to the Local Link 399 route. This request has been rejected. The reason given is that the Bus Eireann service 370 stops in Duncannon, but that service is limited. It only stops at 07.25, 12.20 and 16.15, Monday – Saturday, not on Sundays or public holidays, and doesn’t go to other villages or around the Hook Peninsula. In stark contrast, the Local Link 399 service visits the nearby villages of Ballyhack and Fethard-on-Sea seven times a day, seven days a week, including public holidays. There are many other locations that benefit from both services, including local villages of Campile, Ramsgrange and Wellington Bridge. Why is Duncannon consistently denied this benefit? It would add only ten or fifteen minutes in run-time to include Duncannon Village in the current Local Link 399 route. Bus Eireann are purportedly waiting on funding to increase services on route 370 but there is no indication of when this might happen. And an extended Bus Eireann service would not fulfil the obvious need for a scheduled Local Link service between Duncannon, Fethard-on-Sea and the wider Hook Peninsula.  Duncannon Village is an extremely popular destination, drawing large numbers of visitors at weekends, on public holidays (when Bus Eireann is unavailable), and throughout the summer. Parking is very limited in the village. A scheduled, permanent Local Link service would help to reduce pollution and congestion, alleviate parking difficulties and enable people from other local villages to visit Duncannon. The General Manager of TFI (Transport For Ireland) Local Link, Wexford understands the issues Duncannon residents and other people face. Working in close partnership with the Duncannon Village Renewal Committee, they organised a shuttle service between the village of Ramsgrange and Duncannon for the Duncannon Summer Festival in July 2025. It was a huge success, carrying well over a hundred passengers throughout the day and late into the evening. It enabled people to access and enjoy the festival, to travel safely and significantly reduced car journeys into the village.    Our local GP, Dr Doyle, is moving her GP surgery onto the centre of Duncannon. Representatives from the HSE were very surprised that Duncannon is excluded from the Local Link service and are very keen to see the village included in the future. Together, the HSE and Local Link could improve the health of the local population by providing an important service enabling access for everyone.  We urge the NTA to reconsider their decision, to treat our community fairly, address this inequality, and provide Duncannon with the same Local Link service that other communities in the area enjoy.      

A local playground will: Provide a safe and welcoming space for children of all ages and abilities. Support physical and mental wellbeing through outdoor activity. Create a social hub where families can connect. Enhance the attractiveness and vibrancy of Cloughjordan village. Support local businesses by encouraging families to stay and spend locally.

The Road R741 from Crosstown to Castlebridge is unsafe and unfit for its purpose.  12000+ cars use this stretch of road every day, a ten fold increase over the last 2 decades. Over the years, there have been fatalities and recently many near misses with pedestrians and cyclists - some instances where they have been knocked over.  Elderly people, parents with children and disabled people using mobility scooters are forced directly onto the road where public footpaths end abruptly and verges are unsafe. The roads unsuitable resurfacing and lack of infrastructure and drainage has meant the verge is now at a sharp angle, where you can no longer safely walk. The danger is increased in wet weather. From Crosstown service station to Castlebridge, the speed limit increases from 60 to 80 km/h, while public footpaths and cycle lanes suddenly end. Unsafe verges mean pedestrians are forced directly onto the roads surface.    Houses along the road are in dips as a result of careless resurfacing - where the road is now bowed - causing flooding with damages of over €30,000.  This applies to a stretch of road just 1.2 miles long where cycle lanes and public footpaths end in abruptly in Crosstown and begin again in Castlebridge - how are pedestrians and cyclists supposed to travel safely without these measures? 

Athenry is a growing community and the demand for reliable, early-morning public transport is clear.  Existing servcies are under enormous strain. Trains are often overcrowded to dangerous levels. Athenry desperately needs more services, not cuts. Funding these essential services will allow more people to use public transport and reduce reliance on cars, in line with the Government's environmental goals. At a time of global fuel crisis, public transport must be accessible, affordable and a reliable alternative for commuters. We will not accept Athenry's transport needs being ignored and neglected by Government and the relevant transport authorities. We demand that funding is provided for these essential services.

The people of the community of Straide fundraised for, and provided labour for, the construction of the Straide Davitt Community Hall. The local community group, the Straide Community Development Group, on behalf of the community via fundraising  & with the help of government funding organisations, invested almost €300,000 in the refurbishment of the building and upgrading of services. They now find themselves stymied by their Landlord, the Michael Davitt National Memorial Company CLG, who are unwilling to extend the existing lease unaltered so that the community can avail of a €50,000 CLÁR grant. It is time for the community to reclaim their community centre. 

As it stands there seems to be no set standard for community benefit schemes and near Neighbour payments that relate to wind farms across the country.  A prime example is SSE's "Yellow River Wind Farm" in North Offaly. Unlike many of the wind-farms within the county, SSE are only paying people who live within one Kilometer of a wind turbine. In contrast, BnM who plan to create a new wind-farm on the old Bord Na Mona Site, close to the yellow River wind farm, will be paying out a near neighbour payment to people up to two kilometers from their turbines.  It is clear that there is a massive need for more renewable energy within the country, no matter who we are or where we are from, we all deserve access to clean air and clean energy. At the same time we all should be able to enjoy the properties that we live in and be fairly compensated when that enjoyment is impacted.  As someone who lives exactly one kilometer from the Yellow river wind farm, i can confirm that on certain nights the noise from the turbines can get quiet loud and does take away from the enjoyment of my home. I was shocked when the representatives of the wind-farm came around to inform us of the near neibhour payments and seem to make light about how i was just inside the one kilometer boundary. I noted that my neighbours who were literally a meter outside of the radius are just as impacted as i am, but was told that their radius is rigid and it would be possible to get them included.  In terms of the community benefit funds, the amounts are linked to Kilowat of electricity produced and the not the revenue or profit generated by the wind-farm. This means that as the profit from the wind-farm increases, there will be no increase to the community fund.  We the undersigned are calling on Daragh O'Brien to standardise the payments across the board, to ensure that everyone within two kilometers of a turbine is sufficiently compensated and that the community benefit fund is linked to revenue created. 

We would urge you to add your name to this petition, as there is strength in numbers, to get these Bus Shelters approved and installed

This proposed interconnection between Mullingar and Athlone would give easier access to more destinations around Ireland, encourage the use of public transport and promote tourism. Currently the Sligo-Dublin train line is the only train line in Ireland that is not interconnected with any other train lines this results in a lack of direct access to many parts of the country for those who dont drive as trying to coordinate multiple modes of public transport can be a complex and often futile endeavour.  We shouldnt have to go to Dublin to get to Galway etc! 

The environmental impact of using generative AI is incomprehensible to the general public. In 2025 alone, the data centers used to run OpenAI tools were responsible for 32.6 - 79.7 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. According to OpenAI engineers, clean drinking water must be used to cool the data servers in order to prevent "mineral build-up" in the cooling systems. Data centers are literally using one of humanity's most precious and scarce resources to cool their servers, and it is dwindling by the day. OpenAI's projected water usage could hit 6.6 billion m³ by 2027, which is equivalent to 13.2 billion 500ml water bottles. Although this issue seems out of our hands, students can do their part by helping ban ChatGPT from the Trinity College Dublin Wi-Fi. ChatGPT is the most widely-used generative AI model, thus, blocking access would drastically reduce students' contribution to this ever growing problem. You can help do your part by signing our petition!

We the residents of Lusk, Rush, and the surrounding North Fingal communities, call for the assessment and establishment of a permanent, full-time Garda station to serve this rapidly growing area. Over the past three decades, Lusk has grown from a small town of just over 2,000 people to a population of over 9,000, while the wider Rush–Lusk area now serves a combined population of many thousands. roughly over 20,000. This expansion has been driven by significant residential development and continued planning for further housing across Fingal. Fingal is one of the fastest-growing regions in the State, with its population nearly doubling since the early 1990s and substantial additional housing planned through to 2029. Despite this sustained growth, local policing infrastructure has not kept pace with the scale, density, and service needs of the community. Residents increasingly rely on Garda resources based in neighbouring Balbriggan, resulting in reduced visibility, longer response distances, and concern that policing provision no longer reflects the size and character of the population now living in the Lusk–Rush catchment. This petition does not seek temporary measures, but a long-term infrastructure response aligned with national planning and population policy. We therefore respectfully request: 1. A formal assessment by the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána of policing needs in the Lusk–Rush growth area; 2. The provision of a permanent, full-time Garda station to serve this community; 3. Allocation of staffing and resources proportionate to the sustained population expansion of North Fingal. We submit this petition as evidence of strong community support for aligning public safety infrastructure with the scale of development already delivered by the State and local authority planning policy.

There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights given away to corporations.

We all deserve to feel safe in our homes and communities. Many people living in Edenderry have experienced going to the Gardai Station, during their posted opening hours, only to find that the public office is closed or the Gardai inside are attending to someone else, so were unable to assist them.  With the closure or seriously restricted opening hours of many surrounding stations, such as the one in Rhode Village, comes an increase demand on Edenderry station. At Present, the closest full time station to Edenderry is Tullamore, over 30 KM away. Tullamore Station is the only full time station in the whole county and as such, after hours, it covers a massive area, often leading to long lead times when the Gardai are called.  The New Gardai Commissioner and Minister for Justice, must come together to find the resources to reopen the station full time and to protect the people of Edenderry and surrounding areas.