SubscribeSubscriber OnlyLettersReader argues mandatory helmet use would improve road safety and be easy to enforceThe Irish Times - Letters to the Editor. Thu Jun 18 2026 - 06:00 • 1 MIN READSir, – Anyone who can afford an e-scooter can afford a helmet. Preferably with the highly visible red and white lights built in.For everyone’s sake, no helmet should mean impoundment of the e-scooter. This would be both a common-sense step and an easily enforceable law. – Yours, etc,PETER KELLY,READ MOREToday’s Makerfield byelection could be seismic for IrelandI try to mitigate my guilt for no longer saying thanks to bus driversRuss Parsons: After 40 years of writing about food I’m no longer as excited about it as I once wasIrish teen founders building an AI sales company targeting US market Straffan,Co Kildare. KildareRoad safetyIN THIS SECTIONE-Scooter safety requires stronger enforcementA possible solution to the Aughinish Alumina problemSocial media ban for under-16s fails to address tech companies’ responsibilityEurope must push Putin on to hard shoulder rather than giving him an off-rampThe closure of Phoenix magazine spawns a sense of despairMOST READSouth Co Dublin mansion sold for €15.5m in most valuable property sale of 2026 Law intended to allow people work until 66th birthday to come into effect on June 29thBad – The Song That Saved My Life review: A U2 anthem linking two extreme trajectoriesSinn Féin Bill on abortion services passes crucial Dáil vote with help of Ministers Carroll MacNeill plans in-house HSE ‘agency’ staff to reduce payouts to outside companiesLATEST STORIESI Will Find You review: Harlan Coben deploys new highs of absurdity with typical ruthlessnessIneligible expenditure of nearly €20,000 returned to Skillnet following investigationMost Irish adults favour social media ban for under-16s, poll saysWhen it comes to pregnant women in crisis, the aul’ fellas think they know betterGardaí warned criminal prosecutions may be at risk over solicitors’ withdrawal of service