Keane to back Darbyshire charity cycle

ROY KEANE will join Ruby Walsh, Sean Kelly, the Munster rugby team and other Irish athletes and celebrities in Cork on June 19 to see off riders in the Munster Rugby Cycle in aid of Paul Darbyshire and Motor Neurone Disease Ireland.

Rick Sergent, Andy Pearson, Steve Scott and Robbie Donal will be setting off on a 300-mile cycle starting in Cork and finishing in Warrington, England.

Darbyshire, 41, played with Warrington Wolves for 14 years and will step down as head of conditioning and fitness at Munster at the end of the season after being diagnosed with the disease.