There's over two hours of Irish cycling on TV tomorrow, Monday; highlights of the Dublin International Track GP getting things underway (Photo with thanks to Adamstown Cycling Team)
Fresh from having had their first production broadcast on Irish television last week, Co Clare based Black Umbrella Productions is following up its programme on the national road championships with another show tomorrow, Monday, July 28th.
And immediately after their offering on Setanta is Paul Kimmage's feature length documentary 'Rough Rider' on RTE One.
For Black Umbrella, the broadcast of their show on the national road championships was the first time a programme they had wholly produced, rather than contributed to, had been broadcast on mainstream television.
Tomorrow evening, Monday, they switch their attention to the track with a highlights programme on the Dublin International Track Grand Prix which took place on the Sundrive Road velodrome on the south side of the city a fortnight ago.
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The meeting attracted some of our very best track talent, including former world champion and three-time Worlds medallist Martyn Irvine, along with another Worlds medallist Caroline Ryan and the emerging big talents of Ryan Mullen and Eoin Mullen.
That quartet and other very strong Irish riders faced the challenge of an international field that included world class athletes from Germany, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain and elsewhere.
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The quality of the field produced really exciting racing where the Irish certainly did not have it all their own way.
The highlights programme is due to air from 8.30pm on Setanta Ireland, finishing at 9.30pm.
That leaves you just five minutes to stick on the kettle for a cup of tea before settling in for Paul Kimmage's 'Rough Rider'.
The documentary, which is almost one hour and 45 minutes long according to RTE's listings, was two years in the making.
The cameras followed Kimmage when he went back to the Tour de France last year for the 100th running of the race.
They were also with him in the period just after losing his job at The Sunday Times, locking horns with former UCI president Pat McQuaid and launching a counter attack on him, and for the fall of Lance Armstrong.
Teaser for Kimmage's show
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