Dillon Corkery, Paidi O'Brien rip it up at Silver Pail GP, Fermoy

Dillon Corkery Paidi O'Brien Silver Pail GP Fermoy

Dillon Corkery and Paidi O'Brien finish for a Gerard Cycles-DHL 1-2 at the end of the Silver Pail GP in Fermoy, Co Cork (Photo: John Coleman)

 

Corkery, O'Brien take Silver Pail GP 1-2, Fermoy

 

National criterium champion Dillon Corkery and team mate Paidi O’Brien have taken 1st and 2nd at the Silver Pail GP.

The Gerard Cycles-DHL duo finished side by side in Fermoy, Co Cork, this afternoon after having been in the breakaway for most of the race.

A group of 10 pulled clear early in the race and O’Brien would attack it on the last lap of ten.

With all the riders having been softened up by a testing race in hot conditions, O’Brien pulled out a significant gap.

And when his advantage reached about one minute, Corkery attacked from the breakaway. He rode across to the lone leader to make it two up front.

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The team mates, a mix of youth and vast experience, then put their heads down until the finish, where Dillon Corkery won from O’Brien.

It was the latest in a growing list of successes for the team; Sean Moore also winning the Mullingar GP last weekend.

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The squad has attracted some young talent for its first year. And it is clearly riding very well under the guidance of former An Post-Chainreaction rider O’Brien.

Also guiding the riders this year are Tim Cassidy, Derek Stenson and Liam Cullen. Dillon Corkery has already taken a series of wins in 2018, including the elite crit title.

Jennifer Bates, a relative late-comer to racing, has been called up to the Irish paracycling squad as a sighted pilot.

Furthermore, Moore's win last weekend came at the expense of Conor Hennebry; the Viner-Caremark-Pactimo rider who won Rás Mumhan this year.

It was a quality victory secured after Moore had been a constant in the results for a long time.

 

Sun, July 22: Silver Pail GP

Fermoy, Co Cork

Promoted by Fermoy CC

A1-A2 Race (80km)

  1. Dillon Corkery Gerard Cycles-DHL
  2. Paidi O’Brien Gerard Cycles-DHL
  3. Matthew Sparrow Panduit Carrick Wheelers
  4. Conor Kissane Killarney CC
  5. Sean Moore Gerard Cycles-DHL
  6. Cathal Purcell Panduit Carrick Wheelers
  7. Mick Fitzgerald Strata 3-VeloRevolution
  8. Darren Kearns Panduit Carrick Wheelers

 

A3 Race (64km)

  1. TJ Hickey Collins Cycle Centre
  2. Aaron Dillon Comeragh CC
  3. Sean O’Riordan Valley Wheelers
  4. Billy Allen O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  5. Declan McCarthy Newcastle West CC
  6. David Donovan Upperchurch Drombane CC
  7. David O’Sullivan Tralee Manor West
  8. Franceso Santos Newcastle West CC

 

A4 Race (48km)

  1. Jack Queally Unattached
  2. Anthony Lynch O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  3. Eoin Allen CRNS
  4. Alan Benson Limerick CC
  5. Paul Murphy Blarney CC
  6. Alan Dwyer Acme CC
  7. Chris Kendellan Blarney CC

 

U16 Race

  1. Daniel Yon Min O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  2. Patrick Galvin Killarney CC
  3. Mark McGarry Dungarvan CC
  4. Tadgh O’Shea Killarney CC
  5. Michael Hayes Comeragh CC
  6. Liam Crowley O’Leary Stone Kanturk

 

U14 Race

  1. David Shine O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  2. Quillian Donnelly O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  3. Conal Scully Carlow RC
  4. Shane Galvin Killarney CC
  5. Ewan McConville O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  6. Luke Moynihan O’Leary Stone Kanturk

 

U12 Race

  1. Stephen Sheehan O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  2. Max Fitzgerald O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  3. Eoghan Lattimore Dungarvan CC
  4. Cal Tutty Dungarvan CC
  5. Williem O’Connor O’Leary Stone Kanturk
  6. Tom Kinsella Panduit Carrick Wheelers

 

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