After the excitement of last weekend - especially the great racing at the Shay Elliott promotion - road race action will unfold next weekend in Meath, Limerick Down and Carlow.
The National Criterium Championships, in Limerick, are the headline events but there is plenty of racing down for decision elsewhere.
However, before we get into the action for next weekend - Saturday and Sunday, May 17th and 18th - there are two main fixtures on midweek this week.
Tomorrow - Tuesday, May 13th - the Appleby Orwell Women’s Beginner League 2025 is on again at Corkagh Park, Dublin. You can get more information and enter by following this link.
On Thursday evening in Antrim Round 1 of the Ernie Magwood Super Six 2025 will be held, by Island Wheelers. The 10m TT starts at 7pm from Crankill Rd, Glarryford, Ballymena. You can get more information and enter by following this link.
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The National Criterium Championships are being run by Greenmount Cycling Academy in Limerick City, on a 1km course at King's Island - and you'll get a map of the course and facilities at this link.
The elite women's race starts at 6.30pm and the men's race starts at 7.30pm - both national title races. Juniors of masters riders can enter 'elite' races if they wish.
There are also support races, which are not for Irish titles, for all other categories (starting at 2.10pm) from U12 up to Masters. You'll get the times for all of them here.
This is a fantastic National Criterium Championships course and it's great to see criterium racing in Ireland being run in the centre of a city on closed roads.
Greenmount Cycling Academy has done a huge amount of develop cycling in Limerick over a long period so please get out and support them; by racing or spectating on the day, especially as this is a day-long programme of racing.
You can get more information and enter the races by following this link.
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On Saturday evening, the Tommie Brady Memorial is being promoted in Robinstown village, Co Meath, by Navan Road Club. It is a handicapped race for C1, C2, C3 riders with an evening time slot.
Sign-on is from 6pm in the middle of the village - under the Navan Road Club gazebos. The race gets underway at 7pm and will unfold over eight laps of an 8km circuit. There are prizes for the first six across the line, as well as for two unplaced C2s , C3s, juniors and women.
You can get more information and enter the race by following this link.
On Sunday in Co Down, Newry Wheelers promotes its annual Tour of the Mournes events, with a C1-C2 race of 72 miles and a C3 race of 48 miles.
Race headquarters is at Rathfriland Soccer Club and the races start from 9.30am. You can view the 12-mile course by following this link.
You can get more information and enter the races by following this link.
Also on Saturday, there is more racing in Limerick, with Newcastle West CC organising its PJ O'Riordan Memorial in Athea. The races roll out from race HQ, across the road from Athea National School, from 12 noon.
Sign on opens at 10.45am and closes at 11.45am, with three races being run; C1s do 108km; C2s race for 81km; C3s do 54km. You can view the course by following this link.
Get more information and enter the races by following this link.
Also on Sunday, Carlow Road Cycling Club is running its Carlow Youth Races. There are road & TT stages for U12, U14, U16 girls and boys, with prizes for the top 3 on each stage and prizes for the top 6 overall.
You can get more information and enter the races by following this link.
