Personalities saddle up for Santa cycle

MORE than 40 of the country’s top hacks have swapped their pens for bikes for the rest of this week in a pre-Christmas rally to raise funds for needy appeals.

Personalities saddle up for Santa cycle
Tue, 17 Dec, 2002 - 00:00
Neans McSweeney

The nation's reporters saddled up yesterday with a number of politicians and other personalities, ready to go again this morning as the second day of the annual Media Operation Rudolph Santa Cycle gets underway.

The gruelling 245 mile trek brings the group from Wexford, through Clonmel, Limerick and onto Portlaoise and back, finally, to Dublin, in aid of Operation Rudolph's beneficiaries for 2002.

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