Delivery cyclists - grrrr..

It's really something that the Gardai need to take a close look at, maybe run a safety campaign for the Delivery drivers, checking for illegal electric motors on the bicycles, checking on basic awareness of rules of the road. Many come from countries where there's no rules of the road so it's definitely needed.

Use of the M50 by Deliveroo bicycle drivers is definitely one that needs to be stamped out, the last one I saw was last week at the Dundrum junction, 3 lanes and a Deliveroo biker pedalling away could have been easily wiped out by a truck.

I get the LUAS from Abbey Street of an evening - they all congregate there waiting I presume for their next job.

The number of times someone has almost been hit by them, they're a complete menace.

They're a menace irrespective of what type of road user you are. Cyclists, pedestrians and motorists are all affected by them. I've seen them cycling the wrong way down cycling lanes with other cyclists having to take evasive action, going straight through busy pedestriann crossings at speed while the pedestrian light was green and wandering through busy junctions on a red light while looking at their phone apps for the next job.

The argument that they are underpaid and being abused by their "employers" is irrellevant. Somebody is going to get killed because of their behaviour

That's not the issue I raised, and there's no excuses to be putting their lives in danger by pedalling on a Motorway.

They'll have a very loose relationship with their existence if some of them keep cycling on a motorway…

They won't because it's way way way down the list of dangers they are already not doing enough about.

If they are not going to do more about dangerous car driving and road deaths why would they tackle "getting a fright" from a bike.

This!!! I cycle as part of my daily commute, more precisely, I use TFI Bikes here in the real capital to bridge the gap between my place of work and the closest bus stop served by my bus route home. Whilst there's the occasional Lance-Armstrong wannabe in an overpriced racing rig and far too tight lycra, the only real "threat" from my perspective is those delivery riders. Not only do they drive like complete maniacs, I'm 95% certain their hideous Engwe brand ebikes, which seems like the standard ride for these guys, are not even street legal. Contractor or not, gardaí need to start cracking down hard on these maniacs!

Still no excuses for cycling on a road where you could easily lose your life, no matter how hard up you are..

Absolute nightmare most of the time, along with the Prime vans. All under pressure with unrealistic delivery expectations. The companies employing this should be held to task and rely on more realistic delivery times/ability.

I was knocked off my own bike 2 weeks ago by a lad on a deliveroo bike cutting up the inside of me. The load on the back of his bike hit me knocking me into oncoming traffic (Richmond Road). I was lucky to not get hit by a car and managed to just about stay on my feet but when I looked he had fucked off without a care in the world.

Nothing, these app based "UBER" of everything are driving a race to the bottom. The workers are underpaid as the companies offered cheap services to increase users, but the companies were willing to lose money at the beginning to get into the market. People are used to cheap services so the companies can't really increase the price to customers so they start with the workers, but some people only can work for so much.

Another thing that's happening is that the delivery riders rent the app from the actual owner of the account so they are making less than what would already be crap money.

Well people use the companies, Prime at least delivers stuff that people may not get their hands on locally but much of the delivery stuff is pure laziness. I live in US, the big food delivery app here is Door Dash which is owned by UBER. I was picking up a coffee one day at a Starbucks type place and one of the workers told someone else that someone had ordered a scone on Door Dash. I often order via the mobile app and these coffee shops have a pick up for their own mobile app and one for Door Dash, it's ridiculous how many times I see very small orders for Door Dash.

Also over the last ten years there was a large increase in what are called ghost kitchens, basically a massive kitchen that prepares delivery app orders for restaurants.