Leinster Rás Tailteann Team 2024

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Kerry Team Wins County Title For First Time Since 56 In FBD Milk Rás

The Kerry Team Of 2004

Kerry team wins county title for first time since 56 in FBD Milk Rás

THE Kerry team won the County title and the Irish National team swept the individual and international titles in the FBD Milk Rás eight-day cycle race which finished in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Sunday.

Kerry won their first county title since the 1950s with team leader Paul Griffin in fine form. He had three top 10 stage placings, including third into Millstreet, wore the points jersey for a day, was 14th overall and second best county rider.
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County Jersey Sponsor And Further Visiting Teams

Una May CEO Sports Ireland Presents Con McDunphy (Leinster Team) with blue county rider jersey 2023

Cairde Rás Tailteann is delighted to announce the continued support of Sport Ireland, Cycling Ireland, and The Department of Sport towards Rás Tailteann 2024.

For many years, funding from all three bodies has been the lifeline for allowing Rás Tailteann to take place. 2024 brings higher funding from the bodies, and Cairde Rás Tailteann is “Incredibly thankful for the support”, says Race Director Ger Campbell. Campbell added that he was “Delighted to see Rás na mBan’s funding matched with Rás Tailteann for the first time ever. Both Catherine Martin TD and Thomas Byrne TD deserve massive gratitude for their work in ensuring that both events can proceed in 2024”. More>>>

Irish Independent To Sponsor KOH And Further Visiting Teams

The Irish Independent KOH jersey

The 2024 edition of the Rás Tailteann will take place from Wednesday, May 22nd to Sunday, May 26th. This is the 69th edition of the race.

This year, the event will kick off from Tullamore, County Offaly in Ireland’s Midlands, where the first stage finish will be in Kilmallock. This will be the first-ever Rás Tailteann stage to finish in the County Limerick town. The 2024 edition will also have finishes in Sneem, County Kerry on the famous ‘Ring of Kerry’, Cahir, County Tipperary which will see the first finish there since 1967 and Kildare Town, County Kildare with the fifth and final stage of the 2024 Rás Tailteann finishing in Bective, County Meath where the race will take in three laps of a 14.1KM spectator-friendly finishing circuit. 784.8KM of Irish roads awaits this year's entrants with a total of eighteen categorised climbs over the five stages, including two x category one climbs on stages two and four.
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Yellow Jersey Sponsor And Further Visiting Teams Announced

Conor McGoldrick (Richardsons Trek DAS) wins stage one of Rás Tailteann 2023 from Navan to Birr.

The 2024 edition of the Rás Tailteann will take place from Wednesday, May 22nd to Sunday, May 26th. This is the 69th edition of the race.

This year, the event will kick off from Tullamore, County Offaly in Ireland’s Midlands, where the first stage finish will be in Kilmallock. This will be the first-ever Rás Tailteann stage to finish in the County Limerick town. The 2024 edition will also have finishes in Sneem, County Kerry on the famous ‘Ring of Kerry’, Cahir, County Tipperary which will see the first finish there since 1967 and Kildare Town, County Kildare with the fifth and final stage of the 2024 Rás Tailteann finishing in Bective, County Meath where the race will take in three laps of a 14.1KM spectator-friendly finishing circuit. 784.8KM of Irish roads awaits this year's entrants with a total of eighteen categorised climbs over the five stages, including two x category one climbs on stages two and four. More>>>

Rás Tailteann 24 To Start In Tullamore

This year, the event will kick off from Tullamore, County Offaly in Ireland’s Midlands, where the first stage finish will be in Kilmallock. This will be the first-ever Rás Tailteann stage to finish in the County Limerick town. The 2024 edition will also have finishes in Sneem, County Kerry on the famous ‘Ring of Kerry’, Cahir, County Tipperary which will see the first finish there since 1967 and Kildare Town, County Kildare with the fifth and final stage of the 2024 Rás Tailteann finishing in Bective, County Meath where the race will take in three laps of a 14.1KM spectator-friendly finishing circuit. 784.8KM of Irish roads awaits this year's entrants with a total of eighteen categorised climbs over the five stages, including two x category one climbs on stages two and four. More>>>

The Route Of The 2024 Rás Tailteann

The 2024 edition of the Rás Tailteann will take place from Wednesday, May 22nd to Sunday, May 26th. This is the 69th edition of the race.

This year, the event will kick off from Tullamore, County Offaly in Ireland’s Midlands, where the first stage finish will be in Kilmallock. This will be the first-ever Rás Tailteann stage to finish in the County Limerick town. The 2024 edition will also have finishes in Sneem, County Kerry on the famous ‘Ring of Kerry’, Cahir, County Tipperary which will see the first finish there since 1967 and Kildare Town, County Kildare with the fifth and final stage of the 2024 Rás Tailteann finishing in Bective, County Meath where the race will take in three laps of a 14.1KM spectator-friendly finishing circuit. 784.8KM of Irish roads awaits this year's entrants with a total of eighteen categorised climbs over the five stages, including two x category one climbs on stages two and four.




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The Late Paddy Flanagan
The world of Irish cycling suffered a tragic loss recently with the sudden death of Paddy Flanagan. The Kildare rider was at the top of the sport for nearly two decades and although he had great success in all branches of cycle sport, he will probably be best remembered for his three victories in the Ras. Only Shay O'Hanlon, with 4 wins, has a better record in Ireland's premier stage race but in some ways Flanagan surpassed the Dubliner, notably in the span of his time at the top, 16 years between his first win in 1960 and his third in 1975. O'Hanlon won first in 1962 and then had a purple period when he took the yellow jersey on the opening stage in 1965 and never lost it for the next three years. It is fitting that Paddy Flanagan should be specially remembered on the Ras website and what better way than to retell the story of those three years. It is also a tribute to another Ras rider who died only a few months earlier. Mick Cahill of Cork was one of the stars of the 1975 Ras and was with Flanagan and O'Hanlon in the break of the race on the final Saturday which gave the Kildare rider his victory. Mick went on to finish 8th overall.
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Paddy Flanagan With His Wife Alice

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Shay O'Hanlon 1961 Cycling Season By Paddy Hoare

Shay O'Hanlon, Dublin

For some years past it has been customary to select the top stars, in the various sports, by the top sporting journalists in their own field. When it comes to cycling for 1961 there is only one star – Shay O’Hanlon of the Clann Brugha Club Dublin.

During last year, O’Hanlon was week after week in the news and the results of his endeavours have carved another niche in the Annals of the National Cycling Association.

In a short but brilliant career, O’Hanlon has proved himself the perfect bike rider. He can win overall mediums- track, road and time trials. This he has proven since he first took up the sport a few short years ago.

His success can be termed phenomenal. But this success, or can we turn it climbing to the top of the tree, has he yet reached it? I doubt it; can be fully gleaned from his great devotion to training and his avid love of the sport.
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Dillon Corkery Of Team Ireland Caims Overall Victory In The 2023 Rás Tailteann

Dillon Corkery Team Ireland With The Grorge Plant Trophy After His Victory In Ras Tailteann

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