On your bike, mayor tells city

THE ‘let’s go for it’ spirit of Ronan O’Gara was invoked by the Mayor of Limerick yesterday as he called on the city to get on der bikes.

Cllr Jim Long was speaking at the launch of a bike strategy, successfully operating in Dublin, to encourage people to swap cars for pedal power.

Junior Transport Minister Alan Kelly announced an allocation of €1.4 million to fund public bicycles in Limerick, with the strategy due to kick off in 2013.