Seventy-year-old motor neurone sufferer gets into gear for Malin to Mizen

For most people the long weekend is an opportunity to put the feet up and take a breather but for one remarkable 70-year-old it marks the start of an incredible journey the length of Ireland.

Eddie Green and ten companions from Castleknock in Dublin are travelling from the most southerly tip of the country to the most northerly to raise funds for motor neurone disease - a condition Eddie was diagnosed with six months ago.