Louth Disability Cycling Club Bring Campaign to Leinster House - 28/10/2025

Louth Disability Cycling Club brought their pedal power to Leinster House last week with a special presentation to Oireachtas members and a debate at the Disability Matters committee.Members of the group, which is chaired by Gary Shields, attended the Disability Matters committee, along with Variety – The Children’s Charity’s head of operations, Kevin O’Brien.The committee heard Mr O’Brien outline the huge benefits that specially adapted bikes and trishaws can have for children and adults who have disability or mobility issues and how Louth Disability Cycling Club (LDCC) are ‘the best disability cycling organisation in the country’.LDCC members Paul Callan, Daniel Lambe, Sandra Rogers and Kevin McKee, along with Mr O’Brien, also hosted a briefing for Oireachtas members about disability cycling at the AV Room after their committee appearance, organised by Sinn Féin TD Ruairí Ó Murchú (who is also a is a volunteer cyclist with LDCC).Deputy Ó Murchú joined us on The Agenda this morning to talk to us some more about this, but before that we heard from Daniel Lambe from LDCC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.