Doting father’s ‘crusade’ for daughter with CF

A SHANNON man is to cycle across the country throughout the night to make the starting line for this year’s Dublin City Marathon to run 26 miles.

The inspiration for Kieran McCarthy’s TLC Crusade is his three-year-old daughter, Aoihheann who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) over 16 months ago.

The TLC Crusade involves him swimming 120 lengths of his local pool before setting off on the 230km cycle to Dublin where he aims to be arrive one hour before the start gun in this year’s marathon.