Perhaps the strongest racing team in the country in recent years, All human-VeloRevolution has unveiled a line-up for Rás Tailteann to be reckoned with as it goes back to the event in a bid to win overall for the second time in three years.
While the nucleus of the team is made up of the team's permanent riders - including Rás 2022 overall winner Daire Feeley - the team's status has succeeded in attracting high calibre guest riders for the five-stage race.
And those guests bring added firepower to an already strong team that will take some beating it if gets one of its riders into the yellow jersey again this year.
Added to Feeley, Sunday's Shay Elliott Classic winner Mark Dowling is also in the Rás team - and would be a very popular stage winner if he could grab a victory - along with Mitchell McLaughlin, who is destined for the Paris Paralympics as a tandem pilot.
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As well as that very strong trio, two prolific winners, Lindsay Watson and Darnell Moore, join the line-up for the week of the Rás. Between them they have won many of the biggest races in Irish cycling, with Moore being crowned national criterium champion in Banbridge just last Friday.
Watson has very happy memories of guesting with All human-VeloRevolution in the past as he won a stage and the overall at Rás Mumhan a couple of years ago when riding for Aidan Crowley's team.
Given the form that Moore and Dowling are in, coupled with Feeley going in as a favourite for the overall, and Watson and McLaughlin also quality riders, this team is as strong as many of the Irish national teams to have taken to the start line in the race's history.
Rás Tailteann 2024 gets underway tomorrow week - Wednesday, May 22nd - with the opening stage taking the riders from Tullamore, Co Offaly, to Kilmallock, Co Limerick.
There will also be stage finishes in Sneem, Co Kerry, on the ‘Ring of Kerry’, as well as Cahir, Co Tipperary, Kildare Town, and the big finish on a circuit in Bective, Co Meath, on Sunday week.
