Daire Feeley wins Connacht Champs with epic solo attack, Mark Scanlon on podium

Daire Feeley has won the A1 title at the Connacht Road Race Championships today with an epic solo breakaway ride (Photo: Toby Watson)

Daire Feeley (All human-VeloRevolution) has won the main event at the Connacht Road Race Championships, taking the A1 provincial title in the process.

Former world junior road race champion, Mark Scanlon, was 2nd in today's race and is now the Connacht Masters 40 road race champion.

Roscommon man Feeley didn't hang around today in the Yeats Country CC promotion; attacking from the gun in Tullynagracken South, Co Sligo, and riding the four 25km laps out front on his own.

That was a really impressive win by the prolific Feeley, who is top of the Cycling Ireland A1 rankings and also leads the National Road Series. At the finish today he had about four minutes in hand on an eight-rider chasing group.

Mark Scanlon (in black with green) has made a few appearances at Irish races over the last couple of years; riding the Lakeland CC Open Races, above, last August and getting up in the sprint for a placing (Photo by Sharon McFarland)

And among that chasing group was the man who gave Irish cycling one of its very biggest moments; Mark Scanlon.

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Competing for Bottecchia Racing Club, the 1998 world junior champion has ridden some races in recent years and while today was his first outing of the season, he made the chasing group and won the sprint from it for 2nd place.

Also with him and that group were: Niall
McLoughlin (Westport Covey Wheelers CC) in 3rd, Rory Gallagher (Castlebar CC) 5th,
Cian Noone (Challenge CC) 6th, David Walshe (Castlebar CC) 7th, Barry Holian (Western
Lakes CC) 8th and Richard Meaney (Westport Covey) in 9th. Wheelers CC. Tom
Regan (Seven Springs CC) rounded out the top 10.

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While Feely was crowned A1 Connacht champion, Noone took silver and Walsh bronze. The women’s provincial crown was taken by Heather Foley, for host Yeats Country Cycling Club, from Sara Canny of Western Lakes CC.

Sun, Aug 29th: Connacht Road Race Champs

Tullynagracken South, Co Sligo

Promoted by Yeats Country Cycling Club

A1-A2-A3-Junior Race

  1. Daire Feely All Human-VeloRevolution
  2. Mark Scanlon Bottecchia Racing Club
  3. Niall McLoughlin Westport Covey Wheelers CC
  4. Rory Gallagher Castlebar CC
  5. Cian Noone Challenge CC
  6. David Walshe Castlebar CC
  7. Barry Holian Western Lakes CC
  8. Richard Meaney Westport Covey Wheelers CC
  9. Tom Regan Seven Springs CC
  10. Richard Gribbons Seven Springs CC

Connacht Champs Medalists

A1 Podium

  1. Daire Feely All Human-VeloRevolution
  2. Cian Noone Challenge CC
  3. David Walshe Castlebar CC

Women’s Podium

  1. Heather Foley Yeats Country Cycling Club
  2. Sara Canny Western Lakes CC

A2 Podium

  1. Anthony Hammond Unattached

A3 Podium

  1. Dave Gordon Challenge CC
  2. Keith Raymond Bottechia Racing Club
  3. Colin Loughney Western Lakes CC

Junior Podium

  1. Niall McLoughlin Westport Covey Wheelers CC
  2. Rory Gallagher Castlebar CC
  3. Mannie Kurensky TWC Maaslandster Zuid-Limburg

Masters 40
Podium

  1. Mark Scanlon Bottecchia Racing Club
  2. Barry Holian Western Lakes CC
  3. Richard Meaney Westport Covey Wheelers CC

M50 Podium

  1. Robert Coakley Westport Covey Wheelers CC

A4 Race

  1. Emmett Dunleavy Yeats Country Cycling Club
  2. Enda McLoughlin Bottecchia Racing Club
  3. Paul Geraghty Westport Covey Wheelers CC
  4. Ryan Annett Yeats Country Cycling Club
  5. Jakub Klapa Challenge CC
  6. Daniel Elstone Castlebar CC
  7. Alan Dunne Swinford CC
  8. David Neylon Seven Springs CC
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