Dominican College Girls Secondary School in Taylor's Hill in Galway has over 500 pupils, but only two who cycle to school.
Bella said while she has experienced jeering from boys on the roads she has ignored them. "I would just say ignore it. You’re being you, you’re being amazing cycling into school, you’re being unique and original so keep going and don’t let anyone put you down or stop you." Bella has campaigned to get a new bike shelter and lockers for cyclists in her school, and while she thinks that for some young girls the stigma will always be there, she said that with things like bike racks, shelters and proper lockers more girls will join her.
Rhiannon Dolan in St Louis Secondary School, Dundalk, Co Louth, said she has been able to make changes in her school because of the campaign. "There’s a big stigma around cycling in our school, like girls cycling to school, not very many people cycle, up until last year I didn’t cycle to school at all. I always wanted to cycle because I love cycling. I have such an interest in it, but I was afraid of what people would think of me."
Here we go again!!! Peer pressure over bikes how the fcuk did anyone ever survive pre-2000 woke Aholes!!
FearghalKilbane
The idea that girls would receive harassment for trying to cycle is something that both saddens and infuriates. Anyone who harasses a child needs to feel the full force of the law.
Maybe some schools need to change their uniform policy and allow girls to wear trousers. Cycling in a skirt is not always easy, especially if you're wearing a long one (like what they wear in schools in Limerick)