Irish Cycling Campaign has a refreshed and expanded Executive Committee! This follows on from its Annual General Meeting held on 04 December 2024.

The new Executive Committee (EC) includes a good share of members who were part of the previous EC, but it also brings in four new faces – Anne Nospickel, Caoimhe Clarke, Sile Ginnane and Colm Ryder (who himself returns to the EC after a break of a few years!). It’s terrific to have such an array of talent and experience on our EC – and this complements the experience of ICC’s Board. You can read all about the new EC below.  

Neasa Bheilbigh (Galway Cycling Campaign)

I have been the Chairperson of Irish Cycling Campaign for the last two years (plus). I am also a member of the Galway Cycling Campaign and the Galway Cycle Bus. I have seen the impact active travel can have on children’s physical, social and emotional well-being and am passionate about creating an environment in which children can travel to school safely and independently. I see cycling advocacy as something that should be inclusive and believe strongly that those of all ages and abilities should be enabled to cycle. I have two young children and we love getting around town and going on adventures on our cargo bike.

Dave Tobin (Limerick Cycling Campaign)

I am the current Public Relations Officer of Limerick Cycling Campaign. I am a primary school teacher in a suburban Limerick school, and also act as treasurer and board member for the Northside Family Resource Centre in Moyross, Limerick. Additionally, I currently represent the environmental pillar of the Limerick PPN on the Limerick Local Community Development Committee (LCDC). I have a strong focus on social inclusion both in terms of prioritising infrastructure projects in our city communities that have been historically left behind, and also ensuring that voices from all sections of our community are integral to the work of our group.

Anne Nospickel

I became involved with cycling advocacy when moving to Ireland in 2018 and was thrilled to find a community equally passionate about active travel, sustainable communities and liveable cities. While I was pleased to see the improvement of cycling infrastructure in cities like Dublin, Limerick and Cork in recent years, it was particularly during longer cycles along the Irish coastline that I also became aware of the challenges that rural communities in Ireland face regarding active and sustainable transport.

As a teacher who has worked in higher education in recent years, my vision is to make cycling safe for every person. Safe cycling infrastructure and appropriate enforcement (against road users who put others at risk) not only makes for healthy and sustainable transport but also contributes to a more inclusive society, enabling people of all ages and abilities to access affordable (and often quicker!) modes of transport. I am also a proud member of the Grace Park ETNS Cycle Bus.

Will Andrews (Dublin Cycling Campaign)

Will is a dyed-in-the-wool Dub who started commuting by bike in Dublin in 1983. An architect from East Wall, he was honoured to serve as chair of Dublin Cycling Campaign from 2009 to 2012. 

He’s worked on training kids and adults in confident cycling, helping engage HGV drivers in structured training that increased their empathy for cyclists, and has run bike parades and ride-outs. Will has a keen interest in cities that are vibrant and sustainable and, as part of an M.Sc. course on ‘Urban Environment’ in UCD’s School of Geography, studied the public health impacts of the proposed permanent Liffey Cycle Route, finding them to potentially offer savings in health costs of over €200 million. 

Jo Sachs-Eldridge (Leitrim Cycling Festival)

I started Leitrim Cycling Festival to celebrate bicycles and communities and to find other people who also think cycling might be the answer to so many questions. I’m so pleased to have discovered this proactive, committed, growing group of cycling advocates – it makes change seem much more possible. Before I returned home to Leitrim I worked as a Transport Planner in the UK where I specialised in active travel and believe asking the right people the right questions (and really listening!) is the key to the development of good quality, useful routes. 

Sinéad Halpin (Cork Cycling Campaign)

I am a native of Cork City’s northside, currently living and cycling in Mayfield. I am a mum of two and can be seen with them on the back of my long tail cargo bike on the way to their school and then onto my own work as a second level teacher. I have been cycling regularly since getting my first bike in early 2020. I became involved with the Cork Cycling Campaign and I’ve been active in organising and taking part in events for the past few years. My specific interest is in advocating for cycling infrastructure for the people of the city and country that have been left without it, the traditionally more marginalised and the under-represented. 

Kevin Jennings (Galway Cycling Campaign) 

I have been active in cycling advocacy fairly intensely for the past five years, having been inspired to take action by seeing my now friends in the Galway CycleBus. I’ve served as chairperson of Galway Cycling Campaign for three busy years from July 2019. I’ve gone through the stages of seeing our roads with the eyes of a confident cycler, as a companion of a cycler carrying a child, having children on the back of the bike or in trailers and having children cycling alongside us. My eldest child (12) now cycles to some of his sporting events and is ready to go alone. I’m worried sick. I’m learning to see the world from the perspective of disabled people, older people or carers but there’s no substitute for lived experience.

Caoimhe Clarke

I’m a community-based Consultant Psychiatrist working in Dublin, cycling around the big smoke to see my patients in their homes. I’m a member of the Irish Doctors for the Environment. I strongly believe in using cycling as a basic means to get around in life. Importantly cycling has huge physical and mental health benefits for us and our environment. I’m passionate and hopeful that we can create more social, greener, accessible and safer cycle spaces everywhere in Ireland for all ages and abilities.

Vinnie Wall (Cork)

I’m a consultant anaesthesiologist working in Cork having returned from Paris. I’m hugely passionate about movement from a health perspective and would argue that getting into a car every day is a wasted health opportunity. You were born to move! I’ve been an active cycle advocate in the past and pushed the Cork hospital cycleway in 2020 and I’m a member of Irish Doctors for the Environment and I’ve done a diploma in public health. The number of road deaths in Ireland is unacceptable and I believe road violence is a public health emergency. 

Síle Ginnane

Home is County Clare, where I enjoy working with our small community group, Better Ennis, to advocate for better active travel and better town centre living, both here and everywhere along our future network. How we move about and between our communities is vital to our health and our resilience, and is what wdrew me to active travel advocacy.

I’m a firm believer that data and personal stories are a persuasive combination, and that a simultaneous top-down and grassroots-up approach can make good things happen in the world of cycling. 

Bike-rail-bike forever.

Colm Ryder

Colm is a retired civil engineer, who has wide experience both here and abroad, working extensively in the public sector here in Ireland, mainly in the OPW, on a wide range of heritage, environmental, transportation and safety projects. He has been actively involved for many years in the Dublin Cycling Campaign and with Cyclist.ie (now Irish Cycling Campaign), including five years as its Chairperson. 

Right now he is the (volunteer) ‘Infrastructure Coordinator’ for ICC, coordinating submissions on planning and policy issues to Local Authorities and Government departments and agencies countrywide on behalf of ICC. He is also coordinator of the Dublin City sub-group of Dublin Cycling Campaign, and works closely with Dublin City Council officials.

As a former public servant he has extensive experience of working with government departments and agencies, and local authorities. This has been useful in building relationships with personnel in the various relevant departments and agencies.

Colm loves to cycle and sing, and is always out for a bit of the CRAIC!


Damien Ó Tuama (National Cycling Coordinator)

While not an elected member of the Executive Committee, our National Cycling Coordinator supports and works closely with the Irish Cycling Campaign’s EC.

Damien has held the Irish Cycling Campaign (formerly Cyclist.ie) National Cycling Coordinator post since 2013, a position shared with An Taisce. His current focus is in supporting Irish Cycling Campaign’s countrywide network of Local Groups and advancing the goals of our strategy. He worked in the transportation space for over 20 years, and completed his doctoral research exploring transitions in mobility systems in 2015 (in Trinity College Dublin).

Damien is currently also an Evaluator and Steering Committee member for research projects under the EPA Research Programme Annual Call under the pillars of Climate and Sustainability. He spent five years on the board of the European Cyclists’ Federation (2016-2021) and is currently a member of its Nominations Committee. In 2020 he was appointed to the board of Transport Infrastructure Ireland following a Public Appointments Service process, and was reappointed for a further three year term in 2023. Damien enjoys music, gigs, DIY and adventures!

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Details of the 2023-2024 Executive Committee can be found here

While details of the 2021-23 Executive Committee can be found here.