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Aisling Heavey

Aisling Heavey

Dublin-based rheumatology physiotherapist at Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services, and a guest on DW's Living Planet podcast discussing barriers keeping women off bicycles.

Sep 25, 2026

18:21
In the US, the figure was 1,100 in the same year.
18:24
year.I think I'd love if every driver, like, cycles a little bit in Dublin.
18:36
I think that would be great.
18:37
I saw a video online of, like, it was, I don't know if it was kind of a joke or something, but they had bus drivers or truck drivers go on, like, a static bike and, like, get a bus or a truck to pass them quite close.
18:49
And, like, just so you know what it feels like.
18:52
You know? So you can take a little bit more care the next time.
22:50
She's even drawn something positive from it.
22:52
It was a bit of a kind of silver lining, actually, ‘cause it made me look at the commute that I was doing.

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