Has our footpath etiquette gone by the wayside?

0:00News talk breakfast with Anton Savage in association with air. Dogs, baby boggies, couples and love, there are many things sharing our nation's narrow footpaths right now, so who should have the right of way and has our footpath etiquette gone by the wayside. News talks Sarah Madden, pound of the pavements to find out. People do get underway a lot. They also very often stop just randomly in the middle of the street, so I don't really appreciate when people do that. People not having any awareness, like just not looking around or being on their phones. That's a huge issue as well. People not actually looking around them. Being distracted. Tourists annoy me the most. Just a second ago, there was a whole school of people that just stopped in the middle of the path, but we just like we had to go on the road around them because they were not aware of people passing. Do you think that if you're walking, say in a couple, you should be able to walk together? You can be in love, you know, but if there's people walking quicker than you, move. Like that's all you have to do, you know. Pick up the pace.

1:00Yeah, exactly. People are so obnoxious with footpath. Younger people move a lot faster, you know, and they don't really move for all age pensioners in that, you know. But they walk through them. Really? Yeah. Go to grabs a street and see all of them rushing, you know, and a lot of them are going nowhere, just rushing and not moving out the way of older generation and women with boogies. Oh, that's respect along gone. It wouldn't say a young person gives a seat up to an old person, the bus down, they're going to footpath. Dublin is very overpopulated. Like people actually just aren't built for like the amount of people that are actually in Dublin. Like you know the way in London, if you're walking you stay on the left side or you stay on the right side, they're like on escalators and stuff as well. So I think if maybe we like took inspiration from the Londoners and we had our own kind of system, then it would probably prove quite useful. Sometimes it just takes a firm but a polite excuse me. I've never shoved anybody out of my way or I've never barrelled through someone, but I'm just like, sorry guys, excuse me, loud firm but always polite. Esther McKerothy, columnist with the Irish exam, good morning. Good morning, Dan.

2:01You're probably now one of these Latty Dows walking along. Don't care about anyone around you. Oh, my in your way. Sorry. That's you, isn't it? Well, I'll very dare you. First of all, second of all. I just another reason I'm so glad I live in Carc and Dublin. That things like a hellscape. Young people not stopping for altering. But like just wondering, but you know what, Dan, then genuinely I have noticed it. Like I know all about the road rage. We know all about trying to get on a boss when someone's listening without their headphones. But the path has kind of got a bit difficult to navigate these days. And you know, let's give out about it. Why not? And right in the morning. I mean, people talk about the dogs and they talk about the couples. It's the people on the phone, sometimes playing loud voice notes at high volume, that are just kind of lulling around, not paying attention to what's around them. They are the ones who get my gorge in particular. I hear nothing bad about the voice notes. I have very dare you and actually Jonathan, genuinely, it's not the voice notes.

3:05At least when you're giving a voice note, well, for me anyway, when I'm walking with phone, I'm doing it. So I can keep my eyes up and I can keep aware and know what's going on. It's the people who are watching movies. I passed someone recently and they were watching a full, like, Netflix series on their phone, walking head down, neck like crouched and no concept of what was going on. So leave the voice. Not alone, but the phone zombies are a big trouble. And then if they're going to, they look absolutely aghast and amazed and are waiting for you to say, sorry, when they've just shouldered you onto the road, like the phones are a nightmare, like in general in our society. And also on the path. And you know what, the dogs are fine. If they're not on a retractable lead, I love to lead myself when I'm walking the dog in a field or something. But like, they're, you literally have to limbo under it. And again, they're usually on their phone when they're walking the dog, like, be in the moment, appreciate the time out in nature. It's probably the only time they're away from the screen and they're still on their phone when they want the dog and they could take you out like they could take you out

4:06and they, what about people though who anticipate that you're going to get out of their way and then get the home for you don't? Well, do you know what? I did a little dance the other day as well. You know, we're both kind of, we're like, we're in district kind of eyeing each other up who's going to move, you know, and it was a bit of a, she goes this way. I got that way. Yeah, at least again, they're looking at you and they're aware, even if they want you to get out of the way. It's usually me. I'll just say it. Man spreading can happen on paths as well. I find ladies and I find teenagers actually, I know they were giving out work in there. They usually are in a big gaggle and a long line, but to be known, they probably see the look on my face and the kind of parts like the red sea. I find teenagers not doing that when I'm walking. It's more that it's the people who aren't aware in the first place. No, I don't have the same attention. There's one text here and it says you forgot a dog, boogie. And on that note, Esther McCarthy, I think we can agree that the person with the dog, boogie is neither a friend to yours, nor a friend to mine.

5:08Esther, have a lovely weekend. Esther McCarthy of the Irish Examiner. Thanks very much for joining us. Another text from Joe was talking earlier on about the Colossan brothers and we had speculated that they had been born in Limerick in school in temporary and the listener has corrected us saying the Colossan brothers were born in temporary and schooled in Limerick. So the people of Limerick are claiming credit for all of their brilliant center are probably right to do so as well. News talk breakfast with Anton Savage in association with air weekday mornings at seven news talk conversation that counts.