Welcome to the Galway Cycle - 23/24/25th of March 2012
On the last Friday every March at NUIM Student’s Union, 110 cyclists mount their bikes heading for Eyre Square Galway. Another 100 volunteers follow them. Last year, they raised over €83,500 for Pieta House, they collected money along the way, they busked, they enjoyed two manic party nights and then returned (including the poor unfortunates who chose to cycle home – a sizeable number in fact!).
Over the past 24 years over €726,000 has been raised for a number of charities. It started out as a group of Maynooth students who wished to make a difference. It continues to do so. This year’s charity is Down Syndrome Ireland. They hope to use the money raised by our efforts to roll out an early development program across the country which has already been piloted successfully in Kildare. So make a difference and get involved as a cyclist or (more importantly) as a collector!
For some insight or maybe nostalgia click on our video from last year and photos of previous years!
News and Events:
Relive, Reflect or discover!!
Check out our facebook page here to see the photos and the comments of thanks from grateful participants.
More photos to come including hopefully the eye from the sky on Friday morning on over 1km of eager cyclists.
Says it all!!!
Choose a president, choose a charity, choose a bike, choose training cycles, choose cleats, fall off, get back on, fall off again, choose more training cycles, feel the nerves, choose setting off at 6.30am with 213 people, grit your teeth going uphill, reap the reward of going downhill, choose a new friend every few kilometers, choose lucozade, lucozade and more bloody lucozade, choose arriving in Eyre square to tears and laughs and heartfelt hugs, choose dancing the night away on aching legs, choose shaking buckets, singing songs and painting faces, dress as wonder woman, a smurf, a monkey, raise over €122,000, choose not to sleep, choose pushing your body past it's limits, take a ride in a ambulance, recover and get back on, choose making yourself proud, choose making the best of friends and memories that will last a lifetime, choose a feeling that you'll find nowhere else, choose Galway Cycle for the best time of your life!
-- Leanne Haggerty --
Galway Cycle entering Eyre Square
Hey guys, check out the video of the cyclists reaching Eyre square. If anyone is around galway for the weekend make sure to check us out. We will be all over Eyre square, painting the town red.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sPw0OEEdcsA
AND THEY'RE OFF
It's just gone 6:00AM, you're probably fast asleep (we're probably envious) but chances are you also know somebody on a bike this morning, tearing across the country on their way to Galway.
We had a great start the morning, everyone got fed and no man or woman was left behind. The weather is looking great for the day, so with a bit of luck everything will run smoothly.
Make sure to stay tuned to the website and Facebook/twitter for updates throught the day. You can keep a track of the cyclist location using our nifty tracking device on the website. Also, keep an ear to iRadio for updates on their progress.
From everybody here back in the SU,
GO CYCLISTS GO!
