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Experimental Route Promises Much
Two big changes to traditional FBD Insurance RÁS routes plus an open, combative course should make this year’s race a very exciting one. More>>>
Skerries Launch Website For Final Stage
The Stage end organisers of this years final stage in Sherries in north county Dublin have launched a website to promote the occasion...
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FBD Insurance Rás Press Launch
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| Conor Murphy Ireland Grant Thornton Adrian Tahney FBD Insurances Model Roberta and Paul Healion Murphy & Gunn/Newbyn at the press reception for the FBD Insurance Rás |
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Lineup Of Irish Continental Team Confirmed
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With less than a week to go until the start of the FBD Insurance RÁS, the lineup of the final Continental/Professional team to take part in this year’s race has been confirmed.
The highly promising Murphy & Gunn / Newlyn Group team has shown the benefits of their expansion, being in dominant form all season and taking several important victories. The team for the FBD Insurance RÁS will be led by two very experienced riders, 1997 race victor Andrew Roche and Paul Healion. More>>>
FBD Insurance Rás Route Details and Teams 2006
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Nine Countries To Contest FBD Insurance Rás
A star-studded field of 150 riders from Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Australia, Poland, Norway, Britain and the USA will face the starter when the FBD INSURANCE RÁS 8 Day International Cycle Race gets underway from Tallaght in south Dublin next Sunday, 21st May. Winner in 2003 and again last year Briton Chris Newton will lead the experienced British professional team, Recycling.co.uk in defence of his title, while Irish professional rider, Mayo man David O’Loughlin, home from racing in the USA, will spearhead the Irish national Grant Thornton team. More>>>
Belgian And German ProfessionalTeams for FBD Insurance Rás
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With the start of this year’s FBD Insurance RÁS now just over one week away two more professional teams, from Germany and Belgium, have announced they are to join Poland, Norway, Canada, USA, Australia and Britain in providing the foreign opposition to the Irish national team and sixteen county teams when the big 8 day race gets under from Dublin on Sunday 21st May. More>>>
Tallaght Start For FBD Insurance Rás
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| Adrian Tahney FBD Insurances ready to start the 2005 race at the GPO |
Next Sunday week the ancient village of Tallaght, nestled in the foothills of the Dublin mountains, will reverberate to all the excitement, colour and pageantry of a major, modern-day, international event when the Ceremonial Start of this year’s FBD Insurance RÁS takes place outside the Dominican Church at 12 o clock. More>>>
Double Champion Power Back For FBD Insurance Rás
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The line-up of this year’s FBD Insurance RÁS has been further boosted by the confirmation that double winner Ciarán Power will take part in this year’s race, which starts in just over two week’s time.
After winning overall in 1998 and 2002, Power last competed in the FBD Insurance RÁS three years ago when he won stages into Ballina and Oldcastle and finished second in the points classification.
Since then he has missed the race due to commitments with his professional Navigators team, but will return this year as part of his build-up to full fitness after an operation earlier this season. In recent years Power, who was a superb 13th in the Olympic road race in Athens, had been increasingly affected by a blood flow obstruction that led to numbness and a loss of power in one of his legs. That problem has now been successfully treated and he is raring to go. More>>>
Three National Champions For FBD Rás Grant Thornton Irish Team
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Irish Road Race Champion, David O’Loughlin, is to spearhead a very strong Grant Thornton Irish National Team for the FBD Insurance RÁS 8 Day international cycle race that starts from Dublin in less than three weeks time.
Cycling Ireland has confirmed O’Loughlin, a full time professional rider with the New Jersey-based Navigators team and third overall in the 2004 RÁS, is to lead a young, but experienced national team in an attempt to gain control over many professional teams already booked for the prestigious Irish tour. More>>>
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