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THE Shannon bike sharing scheme is set to be back in action this week, after having had to be paused due to vandalism. CoMotion, the company that provides the bikes, initially opted to suspend the scheme at night-time in a bid to cut off the anti-social behaviour. However, when that didn’t work and the problem persisted, the decision was taken to close the scheme down temporarily, while new security measures were arranged. Jarlath Ganly, CEO of CoMotion said, “We had some instances of anti-social behaviour so we temporarily paused the scheme, we’re introducing some new security measures within the app. “We’re having younger teenagers accessing the scheme, and we just need to put in some extra security measures so we can verify their age before they sign up. We’re developing that and we hope to reactivate it quickly, back to full capacity.” It is understood that a very small number of people were involved in the anti-social behaviour, and that …
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