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Jan 21, 2010
Route Map And Stage Details FBD Insurance Rás 2010
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| FBD Insurance Rás Map 2010 |
What is arguably the toughest FBD Rás route for many years has been announced today, and will see the riders cover 1219 difficult kilometres between the start in Dunboyne and the finish in Skerries. Running from May 23rd to 30th, the world-ranked race will subject the riders to 24 categorised climbs, including one summit finish on Seskin Hill in Carrick on Suir, and will feature a strong international and domestic field.
“I think that this year is going to be the toughest in quite a while. It is going to be a good all rounder who will win out,” says race director Dermot Dignam. “It gets progressively harder as the days pass, with the first two stages suited to bunch sprints, the following ones likely to see breakaway groups stay clear, and then the climbers coming increasingly to the fore. More>>
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Dec 8, 2009
Colm Cullen Gets Man Of The Rás Award 2009
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| Adrian Taheny Director Of Marketing & Sales FBD Insurance Pcl., Garda Colm Cullen Chief Marshall Receives The Man Of The Rás Award From Race Director Dermot Dignam FBD Insurance Rás |
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Nov 20, 2009
"Woollen Jerseys an’ Whiskey Legs" By Ray Kennedy
The story of Mickey Palmer by Ray Kennedy.
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| The Author Ray Kennedy |
Mickey Palmer was a cycling legend of the 1950’s West of Ireland, born in Westport into an Anglo-Saxon family; he lived and grew up in the “Big House” on the outskirts of the town.
His full name was George Campbell-Palmer and with his family were members of The Church of Ireland.
The family’s circumstances changed dramatically with the sudden death of his father, before he was born, and so his mother Annie had to adapt to a situation where money was now in very short supply, but, like many mothers of that time, the late twenties, she somehow managed to make ends meet. She had to rear three children William, Mai and her newborn infant George and they continued to live in Cloghane House by selling it to a local cattle farmer named Wilkie Reilly with the proviso
That they be allowed to live there for the rest of their natural lives. The three children enjoyed good times in Cloghane with plenty of open spaces to play in. During these years the eldest boy William nick-named his little brother “Mickey” and the name stuck with him for the rest of his life!!
However tragedy struck them again with the outbreak of World War Two, William joined the RAF and was killed on a mission somewhere over Germany with the rest of his crew, and their bodies were never found.
Although all of his extended family were in the medical profession Mickey became the first one to learn a trade and was apprenticed to the trade of coach building in the local car and truck building firm of Tim Hastings in Westport.
In the following years he became first a runner and soccer player and then matured into one of the finest racing-cyclists that the West of Ireland had ever seen.
Woollen jerseys an’ Whiskey Legs was launched in the Mespil bar at the Burlington Hotel Dublin on Wednesday 25th November.
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Nov 17, 2009
Dermot Dignam Announces His Retirement As Race Director Of FBD Insurance Rás
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| Race Director Dermot Dignam Retires After 31 Years |
The FBD Insurance RÁS will take place next year from 23rd to 30th May, it will once again be included on the UCI, Union Cycliste Internationale, elite calendar of international events.
2010 will be the 58th anniversary of the RÁS and will also be the 27th year for FBD Insurance to be involved as sponsor.
Announcing the dates, Dermot Dignam also confirmed that following the 2010 event he will be stepping down as race organiser, a voluntary position he has held for the past thirty one years. Dignam had indicated that this year’s race would be his last but after discussions with Cycling Ireland and FBD agreed to stay on for the 2010 event.
The race has achieved a world wide reputation as a fiercely competitive event with a unique mix of professional, international and county riders battling it out over the roads of Ireland each May.
Dignam has the height of praise for the Irish county riders “it’s unbelievable the level of fitness the county riders achieve to compete in a race of this calibre and in actual fact it’s these riders who put it up to the international and pro teams by aggressive racing”.
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May 31, 2009
FBD Insurance Rás Stage 8. Results
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| Jaan Kirsipuu Giant Veolia Norway Wins The final Stage Of The FBD Insurance Rás Into Skerries |
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May 31, 2009
FBD Insurance Rás Stage 8. Pictures
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| Miss FBD Rás Eimear Kavanagh, Simon Richardson Rapha Condor & Andrew Langford CEO FBD Insurance |
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May 31, 2009
FBD Insurance Rás Stage 7. Results
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| Sam Bennett Tipperary Dan Morrissey wins Stage Seven Of The FBD Insurance Rás Into Clara |
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May 31, 2009
FBD Insurance Rás Stage 7. Pictures
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| Simon Richardson Rapha Condor In Yellow With One Day to Go |
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May 31, 2009
FBD Insurance Rás Stage 6. Results
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| Irelands Paul Healion Takes Stage Six Of The FBD Insurance Rás In Castlebar |
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| Simon Richardson Rapha Condor Still In Yellow After 3 Days |
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