Brothers’ drive racks up €250,000

THREE brothers returned home yesterday after spending five months driving halfway round the world to raise €250,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Association.

The youngest of the three, Darragh Crowley, 22, a third-year genetics student at Trinity College Dublin, suffers from cystic fibrosis.

Medical tests show that Darragh’s lungs can only work at 30% full functioning efficiency and he may eventually need a heart and lung transplant. He and his twin brothers, Cian and Shane, 29, came up with the idea for Drive for Life a year before finalising their dream on March 11 when they set off from Melbourne in Australia.