Noel goes capital with 1,000 mile charity cycle

Taking part in a sponsored ststic cycle to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care at Rushmere Centre on Easter saturday are from left, Martin Conway, Johnny Taylor, Mary-Angela Taylor, Noel Tiffney and Hugh Conway.

Published on 12/04/2012 16:05

A PORTADOWN man who is now living in London is gearing up for a charity bike ride that will see him cover just over 1,000 miles for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Noel Tiffney has started fundraising for the challenge that will see him and his team visit five capital cities across the UK and Ireland in the space of just 11 days.

The team will leave Belfast with 16 other fundraising cyclists on July 1, stopping off at Dublin, Cardiff, London and Edinburgh to visit staff and patients in Marie Curie Hospices before cycling back to finish in Marie Curie’s Belfast Hospice on July 11.

To kick-start his fundraising efforts, Noel visited Rushmere Shopping Centre in Craigavon on Easter Saturday with his exercise bike, and he and some of his fellow cyclists gave shoppers a glimpse of what’s in store in the Capital Cycle Challenge by spending a whole day on the bikes.

Speaking after his appearance at Rushmere Noel said, “We’re in the middle of training for the big event now and I can’t wait to get going. It will be very tough but nothing compared to what cancer sufferers go through on a daily basis. The people of Portadown have been so supportive since I started training for the challenge and we thank everyone for their kind donations at the weekend.”

Rushmere Shopping Centre manager, Martin Walsh, added, “Noel and his team are putting a tremendous effort into raising money for Marie Curie Cancer Care and we were delighted to welcome some of the team to Rushmere this weekend as part of their fundraising drive.”

Those who didn’t see Noel and his team at the weekend but would like to make a donation can do so online via www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/www.capitalcyclechallenge.com

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Noel goes capital with 1,000 mile charity cycle

Top stories

News