Up and down day for ultra-cyclist

To even walk up Cork’s steeply rising St Patrick’s Hill is an achievement in itself, but yesterday “ultra-cyclist” Donncha Cuttriss pedalled its length not just once but 100 times.

The Mayfield native completed the challenge in six hours and 25 minutes, raising over €2,000 for Mayfield Action on Suicide.

The 34-year-old is no stranger to endurance cycling, having completed a 4,800km ride across the US in just 11 days and in the last few weeks pedalling 2,100km around Ireland in less than six days. So for Cuttriss the cycle was, as he said himself, “steep but grand”.