Dan MacCarthy, John Treacy, and Con Collins discuss cycling and Munster's great road routes

Irish Examiner journalist Dan MacCarthy speaks to Irish Olympic medallist and Irish Sports Council chief executive John Treacy, as well as Collins Press publisher Con Collins about his new book, Cycling Munster – Great Road Routes

If you’re a beginner cyclist and are wondering how far you can get you’d be surprised. For the research for my new book Cycling Routes of Munster: Great Road Routes by Collins Press, I was cycling 40km to 50km routes at first, having not cycled for a while. Very soon, I felt my legs getting stronger and my stamina building up. After six months the prospect of cycling the Dingle Peninsula, 126km on the route in the book, did not leave me overawed. If you’re a regular cyclist, then you have a decent level of fitness so none of the routes in the book should be beyond you.

So where to cycle? Connaught has the Inishowen Peninsula and the Giant’s Causeway. Connacht has the Aran Islands and Connemara. Leinster has the Wicklow Mountains and the Barrow Way. That leaves Munster.