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diarmaidol

I know it annoys some people, but great pic... glad this ended well.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0829/812657-stag-collides-with-cyclist-duringphoenix-park-race/

wanderer 22

edited post:found the answer!

Eamonnator

Yeah, there was discussion this morning on one of the radio talk shows about culling deer in the Phoenix Park. It seemed to annoy a lot of people.

magicbastarder

the deer in the park annoy people? or the discussion annoyed people?

wanderer 22

Culling triathletes I'd understand.

endacl

They are a bit out of control. Everybody's a triathlete. They're slowly being displaced by MMA 'fighters'.

Neither a native species.

rollingscone

The park deer are mangey and their lack of caution is an indication of overpopulation

Dermot Illogical

I do hope he didn't finish the last 10km with a cracked hemlet. That'd be lunacy!

diomed

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Eamonnator

I don't know, what it'll be like around here by Friday.

secman

diomed wrote: »

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Has jimmy still got his ginger Mane, haven't seen him in yonks.

Chuchote

Poor deer.

ThisRegard

secman wrote: »

Has jimmy still got his ginger Mane, haven't seen him in yonks.

Saw him this afternoon, yes he does.

RobFowl

Bolocks the way the Park is fine to race a tri bike through but not a bike race

koutoubia

RobFowl wrote: »

Bolocks the way the Park is fine to race a tri bike through but not a bike race

Spot on.





And that picture is misleading. The triathlete fell over all on his own and the deer had to jump to avoid him!

magicbastarder

i nearly got clattered by a deer on the same road once, in the dark. that was a bracing experience.

Macy0161

I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more in the mountains, especially with the hits and near misses they have with cars. Now the daylight is shorter, definitely more deer around at training/ spin times anyway - was 8 or 9 in the front garden yesterday morning before I headed to work, and hearing more beeps from cars in the evening time too.

dub_skav

Glad I was wearing my antlers, I swear if it was winter that tri-dork would have split me wide open.

Antlers save lives me deers.

timmy_mallet

One of the pics shows a bloke with a TT helmet looking back - I think the deer missed.

Bloggsie

a number of issues with this, did the deer swap insurance details with the cyclist or did it leave the scene before the guards arrived!

was the cyclist not trained in deeravoidence classes in school as a child?

Dermot Illogical

It was a stag. He didn't stop, probably because he'd had a few deers earlier.

dastardly00

magicbastarder

RobFowl wrote: »

Bolocks the way the Park is fine to race a tri bike through but not a bike race

when did this change? i remember the ras criterium being held there about ten or fifteen years ago.

uck51js9zml2yt

A friend had a deer run into his car a few years ago. Both were written off.

Would the cyclist be able to claim off the OPW?

magicbastarder

i was told that if you hit a deer in the park, you're legally at fault. not sure what the situation is if the deer runs into you.
must ask my brother; he was once a passenger in a car travelling on the outside of the park, and a deer jumped over the wall and landed on the side of the car. he may know how that panned out.

beauf

magicbastarder wrote: »

when did this change? i remember the ras criterium being held there about ten or fifteen years ago.

How about the Tour De France....

http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/events/tourdefr2.html