Category Archives: Club News

After the disappointment of missing the Beijing Track World Cup due to illness, Sam Bennett competed in his first World Cup track event in Copenhagen. It never really happened for him in the points race as he was in his own words “stuck to the track”. However, he came out the following morning and qualified for the final of the…

  With six weeks to got to the Lacey Cup in Tralee, club riders have stepped up their training. The racing cyclists have started a 9.15 spin on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Last Saturday, Brian Kenneally picked out an undulating route taking in Kells, Gowran, Graiguenamanagh, Thomastown and Kilmoganny. Sunday was very wet and windy, but that didn’t deter our…

Unfortunately, Sam picked up a chest infection and had to return home from Newport as David O’ Loughlin, David McCann, Martyn Irvine, Paul Healion and Sean Downey headed for Beijing. Sam’s on the mend now and will start training this weekend for the Copenhagen World Cup over St. Valentine’s weekend.

The young man in the photo has come a long, long way since this photo on his way to winning the Under 16 Bill Hyland Memorial race in 2006. Normally, our seniors make their adult competitive debuts in the Lacey Cup in Tralee. Not so Sam Bennett who heads to the Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing for the World Cup Track…

Many thanks to all of those who voted for our club members in the Cycling Ireland Membership Awards. The trip to Sneem was worth making for Sam Bennett who received two awards and a bursary, plus his European Championships prize money. He won the award of Junior Cyclist of the Year and also the Best International Performance of 2008. Each year,…

  Ó Ceallacháin’s was the venue for our annual club dinner on Saturday 29th of November. 45 club members sat down to a beautiful dinner followed by the presentation of our annual awards. Bobby Power and Paul Lonergan presented the sports awards:

Seamus Healy, born in Carrick-on-Suir in 1932, rode his first road cycling race in 1953, and by 1957 he had emigrated to America, never to race in Ireland again. However in those intervening short few years he had a major influence on the sport of cycling in Carrick and was the first man to put Carrick on the national cycling…

Hugh Og Mulhearne was born at 4:30 this morning at a very healthy 8lb 13oz. Mam and baby doing well. Congratulations to Breda and Hugh ! Hugh please feel free to send me in a photo and I will put it up instead of the cheesy graphics you see across !

  Congratulations to Rory Wyley who on Sunday morning last set a new Irish 100 mile TT Record of 3:51:02 in Port Talbot Wales. More details as I receive them.

This event was cancelled due to inclement weather last Thursday. It has been rescheduled and now Martin and Michael O’Loughlin will race DJ Aaron Burchill from the FBD Insurance offices to Tipp FM live on air this Wednesday morning (May 28th) at 8am. Tune in to find out how they get on !

Please find attached a flyer advertising our Beginners and Underage League Races starting on Monday night next (12th May). Thanks to Ó Ceallacháins for once again sponsoring the race series. It went very well last year, and we got some new blood into the club. So far this year, Eamonn Maher, Dylan O’ Brien and Michael O’ Loughlin have won 7…

Heading to the Tour of Ulster today we have Joe Fenlon, Hugh Mulhearne, John O’ Brien, Mark Power and Rory Wyley. Tonight, our underage riders head down to Kanturk for the Corkman 2 Day. Eamonn Maher, Dylan O’ Brien and Michael O’ Loughlin are representing the club. The Corkman is a 3 Day for the adults with Mickey O’ Reilly,…

By Bobby Power Fifty five years ago Carrick Wheelers cycling club was formed, and the club’s first major promotion was the Kiely Cup which was held on St. Patrick’s Day, 1954. That started a tradition of cycle racing in Carrick on St. Patrick’s Day, and was a significant step on the way to making the town of Carrick synonymous with…