Giving blood, sweat and tears on 1,000km charity cycle

Gardaí have gone to great lengths this week — the entire country, to be precise — to show how a little blood, sweat and tears can go a long way.

Now, all they want you to do is provide the blood.

As part of the annual Blood for Life charity cycle campaign, dozens of officers from across Ireland have spent the past five days travelling on a 1,000km nationwide journey.