Mark Dowling dominates in epic Laragh Classic

DID Dunboyne’s Mark Dowling finished the season with a commanding victory in Sunday’s Friends First Laragh Classic, earning himself a Leinster Championships Gold Medal in a sodden County Wicklow. Dowling, who is now aiming for a valuable race in Taiwan, was clear of the main pack in a five-man breakaway when ... More

A3s pipped by Orwell at National Champs

ATTACK, attack, attack, was the policy for St. Tiernan's seven-strong A3 National Championships team in Mayo on Sunday - and it nearly paid off. Last year's team secured the team championship prize, Martin Vereker finishing fourth, John McGettigan ninth and Richie Gallagher 25th. McGettigan and Gallagher lined up once ... More

‘He had cramped badly! All my Christmases had come at once’

FERGAL MAY punched the air at the thought of the A2 upgrade he had just earned himself at the Donamon GP in Roscommon on Sunday. Flat roads, a small field of 60 and 80k distance made the Donamon Dynamos' event a fierce come down from the previous weekend's Ras Dhun na nGall. It looked a walk in the park for the A3 ... More

Eight men went to mow, went to mow a mountain – Ras Dhun na nGall, 2015

On Friday, June 5, 2015, eight men left Dublin for Donegal, armed with bicycles and purple jerseys. What awaited them was wind. Some hills. More wind. Bigger hills. Birthday cake. And a mountain. Here's the action as it happened from directeur sportif Brian Hayden...  June 6, 9.27am, Let the wind commence. RAS ... More

Late crash ends McGettigan GC hopes at Gorey

A CRASH in the final 3km of Irish Road Club's Gorey Three Day ruined Club Champ John McGettigan's hopes of a high GC placing. McGettigan had stormed up to within the top 25 after finishing in the bunch on Saturday's run to Craanford and knocking out an 8'19" time-trial on Sunday morning. Holding strong in the bunch ... More

May takes 4th in Rás Maigh Eó. Twomey gets A3 upgrade.

HE just keeps getting better! After a storming TT Fergal May took fourth in the 2015 Rás Maigh Eó, just edged off the podium by Dick O'Brien from Orwell Wheeler. He is now one point shy of A2 and claims he was not 100 per cent all weekend, as he continues to gear up for Irish Road Club's Gorey 3 Day on the Easter ... More

McGettigan 10th in West Coast Wheelers Open

CLUB CHAMPION John McGettigan lived up to his title in Loughrea on Sunday when holding on for 10th in the West Coast Wheelers Open Race. In wind and rain, McGettigan, who suffered a mechanical in Saturday's Travers Engineering Annaclone GP, ignited a break 12km from the start and took team-mate John Malone with him. The ... More

Doherty makes break in wet Traders Cup

DERMOT DOHERTY and Richie Gallagher felt the wrath of the Irish spring in Dundalk on Sunday, where Cuchulainn CC threw their annual Traders Cup party. While Gallagher's early break in the A race came unstuck after 30km, Doherty went away with 15 riders the first time past Ardee in the A4 event and when they swept ... More