Visually impaired Galwaymen launch Activities Club
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Galway City Tribune, Ireland
Friday, October 05, 2007
Visually impaired Galwaymen launch Activities Club
Tom's vision for an active cycling club
The first time Tom Langan set off on a tandem bike he was petrified. Tom is
visually impaired and had not been on a bicycle since he was a young lad, when
he had partial sight and was able to learn how to cycle.
With a 'pilot' leading the way up front, the pair travelled from Galway to
Maree, Oranmore. "Scary" is the first word that came to mind when Tom recalled
that inaugural journey.
"I suppose the experience as a youngster helped me a bit in that I knew the
motion of a bike. But the knuckles were a bit white," he remembers with a
chuckle. Despite the nerves, it was exhilarating and so far he has completed
three rides.
"Feeling the air, the movement of the air and feeling it on your face, to be
out in nature and feeling it around you. I loved it," he recalls.
Tom and two other men with the same disability, Michael Kelly and Paul Joyce,
have launched the Galway Visually Impaired Activities Club and the first
activity they want to get off the ground is tandem cycling.
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