After five seasons in the professional peloton in Britain and Continental Europe Robbie McCarthy has called time on his cycling career.
He will remain in the sport, working creating media content for Trinity Racing.
The team was established by Irish cycling agent Andrew McQuaid in 2018 as a cyclocross outfit featuring Tom Pidcock as its lead rider.
It is now planning to race on the road in 2020, with Pidcock and Irish U23 international and Tour de l'Avenir stage winner Ben Healy (19) among its ranks.
McCarthy has already been shooting video content with the team on the international cyclocross scene and will take on that role for the squad through this year.
He was a popular vlogger on YouTube during his final few years in the pro peloton.
McCarthy won stages of the Rás and held the yellow jersey
on the race. He was also junior road race champion in Australia, where his
family moved to from Cork when he was a boy.
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However, despite being champion there and also representing Australia on the road at junior and U23 level, McCarthy declared for Ireland during what was a second chapter in his career.
He took some time out of the sport for part of 2015 and
all of 2016 and when he returned he switched allegiance to his native Ireland.
McCarthy had ridden for the Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes Continental team based in Britain in 2019.
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His one-year contract expired at the end of last year and his pro cycling career has come to an end.
Now aged 25 years, after he won the junior Australian road race crown at the start of 2012 he went on to represent Australia in Europe that year, including at the Worlds in Valkenburg.
He later rode for the Australian U23 team in Europe, including at events like the U23 Tour of Flanders.
In 2014 he made the move to Continental level with An Post-Chainreaction
but before the European season even got underway he scored a stage win in the
pro Herald Sun Tour in Australia riding for the national team.
Within weeks of that win had had taken silver in the U23
road race at the Oceania Championships.
Later that year he claimed the opening stage of Rás Tailteann and the yellow jersey, which he held for a day.
He then rode for SEG Racing in 2015 but by the end of May
decided he had had enough of cycling and stepped away from the sport.
However, he returned for the 2017 season, declaring for Ireland. He rode for JLT Condor that season and in 2018 before moving to the Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes Continental team for the 2019 campaign.
Notable results during the second phase of his career included 2nd on a stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy (2.2), another Rás stage win in the 2018 edition and 5th on a stage of the Tour de Yorkshire.
He also represented Ireland at the European Championships
last year and the year before and was on the Irish team for the European Games last
year.
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