Reading event brings D’Arcy to book

DISCOVER the joys of reading and help a good cause - that’s the message to boys and girls at the start of MS Readathon 2005.

“I love to read; it’s great,” said rugby ace Gordon D’Arcy, who launched the month-long charity reading marathon in Dublin yesterday.

“My parents ingrained it in me when we were kids. We had everything from The Famous Five right up to Roald Dahl,” said the Ireland and Leinster centre. “James and The Giant Peach was one of my favourite books.