{"id":875830,"date":"2026-09-01T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875830\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T05:06:09","slug":"safer-cycling-around-galway-thanks-to-a-vacuum-cleaner-manoeuvre-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875830\/","title":{"rendered":"Safer cycling around Galway thanks to a vacuum-cleaner manoeuvre \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 A few days ago, I needed to bring a broken vacuum cleaner out to a recycling centre in Galway city. As I don\u2019t drive, I securely placed the item into a basket on the back of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cycling\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cycling\/\">bicycle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, despite my best efforts to cover the appliance, the handle was unavoidably protruding from the basket and clearly visible. The result of this was that passing motorists deemed it judicious to give me a decent berth instead of choosing to precariously shave past in vehicles that were never intended for urban driving in Ireland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Consequently, I have never felt so safe cycling around Galway. In fact, it was such a pleasant experience that I am strongly considering retrieving the vacuum cleaner from the recycling centre and attaching it permanently to my bicycle. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fionnuala Walsh,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Galway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 A few days ago, I needed to bring a broken vacuum cleaner out to a recycling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,56331,85],"class_list":["post-875830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-galway","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}