Orange alert for Cycle Against Suicide

A distinctly orange tinge will infiltrate Cork’s rebel red hue at the end of the month when more than 1,000 cyclists wearing the distinctive bright tee-shirts arrive in the city during the annual Round Ireland Cycle Against Suicide campaign.

The riders will arrive in Cork on April 30, on the Waterford-Cork leg of a 1,400km cross-border marathon that departs Naas on this day next week and culminates in Dundalk two weeks later.

A total of more than 7,000 cyclists are expected to participate in some stage of the journey, almost trebling last year’s inaugural number.