Helmets needed for Mayo public bike scheme

HELMETS should be supplied to people using the bike hire scheme operating in Castlebar.

The suggestion was made by Councillor Michael Kilcoyne who highlighted an incident where a girl had fallen out the Breaffy Road and ended up in hospital.

Commenting at a Castlebar Municipal District meeting, he said there are no helmets with the bikes and the council should ask the operators to supply them to users.

The councillor also said there had also been complaints about the bicycles being 'abandoned everywhere'.