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RTE meteorologist Joanna Donnelly has recounted how she was attacked by a female driver while riding a bike with her son.
The Met Eireann host revealed that the bully “strangled her” and left her neck bleeding.
Joanna, 50, said: “A woman called a boy she was riding a bike with. When I stopped and suggested this was unacceptable, she put her hand around my throat, strangled me, then ran her nails down my neck and drew blood.
“This is not appropriate behavior.”
Gardai is investigating, but has not yet located the culprit.
Joanna posted images of her injuries on social media Thursday when she read on Twitter about an eight-year-old boy who suffered daily abuse on his bike.
While initially hesitant to go public, the mother-of-three admitted she couldn’t help it when she saw another child facing similar abuse.
She told the Irish Mirror: “I’m a bit wary of putting my family in that war, and I probably shouldn’t have tweeted it.
“But I had been retweeting someone else who said their eight-year-old son had been called and that sparked me.
“It is very sad and very disturbing. My 13 year old son rides his bike to school and experiences that people call him frequently because they teach him to take a safe position on the road and as a result he is called.
“And by people who go to the same school. I really don’t want to talk about that woman.
“And I really don’t like talking about the assault because it’s annoying, but that was the crux of the matter.”
Joanna, who rides her bike to work, revealed that the incident happened in May as she was on her way to the beach.
She added: “It was in the hands of the guards. Unfortunately, they failed to catch the person, but I did a report and they were very helpful and took it very seriously. “
Being careful not to get caught up in a highway “war”, Joanna highlighted the need for safer conditions and attitudes towards bicyclists.
She said, “It’s terrible. No one should call the cyclists.
“And as a cyclist, even my friends and colleagues tell me: ‘Oh, but I saw a cyclist and they were in front of me’ and I say: ‘But the cyclist can be in front of you. We are allowed to be on the road. It’s crazy. “
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