The weather was fantastic and our results matched it on the glorious June Bank Holiday weekend. Two wins for Rory Wyley and three for Michael O’ Loughlin were our highlights. Patrickswell, Killybegs, Camross, Broadford… Our riders certainly got around over the weekend. Patrickswell was the venue on Thursday night for the Munster Time Trial Championships. Sean Hahessy put in a…
Sam Bennett took his first win of the season in the Comeragh CC League last week. He took his second win today in Stage 7 of the FBD Insurance Ras from Castlebar to Clara, outsprinting world class names like Jan Kirsipuu, Nico Eeckhout and Luke Roberts. A full record of this historic day will be posted when we get…
Glorious sunshine greeted the riders on Monday evening in Faugheen for the first race in our 2009 league – a time trial. Sean Hahessy was the fastest on the night, recording an excellent time of 6.03 for the 2.2 miles. Conal Conroy was next with 6.52, with Richard Dunphy 3rd with a time of 7.11. Caoimhe Kelly was the fastest girl with a…
First, second, third and fourth… Plus the team prize. You can’t do much better than that. Well done to Martin O’ Loughlin, Kevin Shelly, Cathal McCarthy and Rory Wyley who led the way in the Corkman 3 Day in Kanturk. Also to Michael O’ Loughlin and Sean Hahessy who made the underage prizes.
April was a quiet month for the club on the senior front, with no wins. However, the underage and vets continued to claim podium places. Eamonn Maher made his international debut riding for the Irish junior team in the Gorey 3 Day and acquitted himself well. Rory Wyley also donned a new jersey, guesting for the host club Killorglin in Ras…
On Tuesday 7th of April at 10 pm, Setanta Ireland will present a 60 minute programme called ‘Wheel of Dreams’ as part of their weekly ‘Sport Matters’ series. This programme was recorded in August and September of last year. We don’t know what made the final cut, but interviews were recorded with Sam, Helen and Michael Bennett, Bobby Power, Sean…
John Troy’s photo of Robin Kelly winning the Senior A/B event in the Carrick Cabs Cup. Robin Kelly of Waterford’s Comeragh Cycling Club was the impressive winner of the Carrick Cabs Cup held in Carrick-on-Suir on St. Patricks Day, when he outsprinted his four breakaway companions at the end of great day’s racing.One hundred and forty eight riders signed…
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.
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