Long Covid sufferer in Northern Ireland completes 66-mile cycle sportive in Scotland with oxygen cylinders on his back

63-year-old Gerard McLarnon from Randalstown, County Antrim, has successfully completed the 2022 Etape Loch Ness after a long battle with Covid-19 which saw him hospitalised for 70 days, 57 of which in ITU and 40 days on a ventilator. It left him having to learn how to walk, talk and swallow again.