Tickled pink as Giro rides on

Hundreds of thousands of people lined highways and byways in Ireland to bid arrivederci to the Giro D’Italia.

One of the world’s most famous cycle races crossed the border from Armagh into Louth around lunch time then whizzed its way along the east coast towards Dublin.

Along the way, young and old lined the streets of Castlebellingham and Drogheda in Co Louth, as well as Skerries, Swords, Malahide, and Clontarf in Dublin for a glance of the speeding peloton and the famous Maglia Rosa — the leader’s pink jersey.