WORK is now underway on the National Cycle Network (NCN) pilot project along the R448 in south Kildare between Moone and Timolin with Kildare County Council confirming that contractor Glas Civil Engineering is currently mobilising on site.

He tasted his last victory as a veteran in a 28-mile time trial at the Glen of the Downs in Wicklow in 1996, four years prior to his untimely sudden death aged 61 in 2000