ICU consultant Dr Catherine Motherway will be joined by frontline colleagues from University Hospital Limerick on Thursday in the local effort of a national fundraising cycle to commemorate those who have lost their lives to COVID-19.

A team of doctors and nursing staff from University Hospital Limerick are making a special push for charity over the next two days, cycling the 200km from Dooradoyle to Dublin to raise €100,000 for four charities working with people affected by COVID-19 – Alone, Aware, Breakthrough Cancer Research, and ICUsteps Dublin.