Marty Mannering is restoring old memories as well as old bikes with his company, he tells Richard Fitzpatrick

THE Dragons’ Den programme that gave a Limerick enterprise an ‘on your bike’ rebuff appears, for once, to have missed the bus.

A LIMERICK City Council employee who claims he was refused permission to charge his electric bike at the city’s main fire station has co-sponsored the first free electric vehicle charging bay in Ireland.

LIMERICK city firefighter Marty Mannering owns the country’s only full-speed electric motorbike — but his employers have refused to allow him to charge the bike at work.