There is a feast of racing taking place and the prize fund is very impressive. The winners will be very well rewarded indeed for their efforts.
Dungarvan Cycling Club is pulling out all the stops this Sunday with a €2,500 prize fund on the line across all its races.
The winner of the A1-A2 main event will go home with €500. And if you’re in the A3 race you’ll be €300 richer if you take victory.
In what sounds like a very promising development for racing in the south east, some of the youth races will take place on a new rally circuit.
The honour of getting bike racing underway on the local 1km tarmac rally circuit falls to the U12s and U14s.
And they’ll be letting rip around Rally Connection Complex thanks to Tom Kenneally. The Dungarvan CC man owns the facility, at Farnane Upper, Cappagh.
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There are seven races in all down for decisions, with the A1-A2 event 143km and the A3-Junior race some 107km.
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The A4 and women – who ride separate races – each do two laps of the race circuit, for race distances of 71km.
The U16s do one lap of the 31.5km loop. And on the motor track the U14s do 10 laps of the 1km circuit with the U12s doing ten circuits.
Sign on for the road races opens from 9am at Modeligo GAA club.
The O’Doherty Cup will be taken by the winner of the main event; Robert Jon McCarthy (JLT-Condor) he current holder after his win 12 months ago.
The cup is named in honour of Noel O Doherty; a man who put so much into cycling in both Dungarvan and Carrick.
Of the club’s current crop; Mark McGary and Aoibhe Power are both current youth national champions.
Dungarvan CC began fundraising for the event in January; determined to push the boat out this year.
It is the oldest club in Ireland, having been established in 1860, and has a storied history.
Its former president, the late Rory Wyley Snr, rode the first Rás. And two former club members – Stephen Spratt and Robert Power – won the Rás in their pomp.
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