Frontline Heroes: Pretty tyre-d — but on the road daily with vital deliveries

Stephen Collins, motorbike rider volunteers with Bravo Tango Charlie, a Covid- 19 emergency kit service which is delivering PPE and other essential goods to hospitals, nursing homes and other care settings across the country. Photo: Moya Nolan

Motorbikers across Ireland have been volunteering with the Bravo Charlie Tango motorbike group delivering PPE to nursing homes. Volunteers Floss Gibson, Colman Ryan and Richard Ahern. Pic: Larry Cummins

Motorcycle groups are delivering vital medical supplies — along with an occasional bunch of tulips or box of chocolates — to hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities across the country in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Bikers delivering personal protective equipment -PPE- have met people accepting it "with tears in their eyes because they had nothing".