RNLI Charity Challenge

Fifth Former Tim Otway-Norwood and three of his friends are raising money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution by ‘virtually cycling’ around Ireland. They aimed to raise €2000 at first, but have gone well past that now, with currently over €7000 on their GoFundMe page.

Tim writes:

“To update you, the RNLI challenge is going really well: we have been cycling for six days. We set up a Twitter page @VirtualRnli and have been mentioned on Ryan Tubridy’s morning radio show on RTE radio 1, and the Irish Sailing Association have put it up on their website and put an article on Afloat.

We have been joined by Olympic Silver Medallist Annalise Murphy and other Olympic hopefuls have also taken part, including Aoife Hopkins, Oisin McClelland and former Olympian Timothy Goodbody. The Olympic Federation have also mentioned us on their Twitter accounts.

We have cycled over 1134km, climbed 7400metres and spent 36 hours cycling over six days around my online classes.  We took a rest on Friday in Virtual Achill Island Lifeboat Station.

Today, Saturday, we set out for Donegal.

Thank you for your support, we hope to get to over €8000.00.”

Further donations can be made below.