Trucker tackles Le Tour in late father’s honour

A FORMER 17-stone truck driver whose father’s death inspired him to quit his job and transform his life has just completed the gruelling Tour de France — in his dad’s honour.

Trucker tackles Le Tour in late father’s honour

Father-of-two, Donal Harrington, 36, from Castletownbere in West Cork, finished the final stage of his epic 3,400-kilometre month-long cycling challenge on Saturday when he rolled into the fishing port to a hero’s welcome.

“I still can’t believe I’ve done it,” a fit and trim 13.5-stone Donal said.

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