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Hi @TodaywithClaire, please stop dissing people who choose to cycle. Your comment "wait til it hails" at the end of the piece about children cycling to school was unnecessarily hostile to kids. My 8 year old cycles 6k to school every day and when it hailed we sheltered for 5 min
In fact, could @rte in general please stop this bullying. The 8 year old still hasn't gotten over Olivia O'Leary describing him as "thugs on bikes". You have a duty to educate and inform not to dismiss based on your opinions and not evidence
He loves cycling and is so proud of himself for what he's doing. It's not easy to cycle, in the lashing rain, past a car in the driveway but it's changed his life. He's doing better in school and at sports since we started cycling to school. RTE should be supporting this
He was bullied in school for the last 2 years and some days it was hard getting him to want to go in. He was never good at team sports like soccer but this year he's all over the playground soccer match and the kids who bullied him can't get near him anymore. Thanks to cycling
The 8 year old ...
