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…
Dan Morrissey rounded out one of its most successful seasons in recent memory with a 1-2 in the National Veterans Championships in Dunrod. Pre-Race favourite Martin O’Loughlin was able to retain his title ahead of club mate Rory Wyley, whilst Sean McIlroy and Leslie O’Donnell helped to ensure that we retained the team title won in 2007 also ! Well…
Breaking news: We have a European Champion in the club. Sam Bennett blitzed the opposition to win the points race at the 2008 European Junior Track championships in Pruszkow, Poland. Sam won the competition with 29 points compared to his nearest competitors 18 points. Pictured above: L-R Albert Torres (Spain) 2nd. Sam Bennett (Ireland) winner, Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland) 3rd in…
Continuing his rich vein of form of late, Michael O’Loughlin has added “the big one” to his fast growing palamares, assuming the title of Irish U11 Road Race Champion, not only that, Michael also took the title of Irish U11 Criterium Champion, before rounding the weekend of with a 3rd place in the Irish U11 TT championships. So in summary…
Congratulations to Michael O’Loughlin on a fine win in todays Community Games in Mosney Co. Meath. Michael won the U12 section on a countback after finishing level on points with a Kerry riders. Congratulations also to Caoimhe Kelly who came 2nd in her race and Sean Hahessy who took 4th in his. Well done to all concerned !
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.
The Suir Valley 3 day finished as yet another resounding success for the club with Martin O’Loughlin taking stage 1 and stage 3. In a breathtaking performance against a classy field, Martin along with John O’Brien were able to bridge across to an Isle of Man rider and give him the old one-two to take the top 2 spots on…
Martin O’Loughlin won todays first stage of the Suir Valley 3 day in fine style with his nearest competitor some 6 seconds back. In addition Rory Wyley ended the day in the red jersey for the first S3/Vet. Congratulations to Martin and the team on a great performance. For full results please visit www.suirvalley3day.com. 7 Photos in the gallery courtesy…
Photo (c) Liam Ruth, Slaney CC Congratulations to Kevin Shelley on a fantastic win in last weekends Eddie Tobin memorial in Enniscorthy. Kevin won the race in typical Shelley fashion simply using his astonishing horsepower to ride all of his breakaway companions off his wheel with a lap to go and then even more impressively holding them off to the finish. Kevin…
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