
Aaron Gate's stage win end a day of high drama on the Rás, when the yellow jersey was disqualified and Ireland's Bryan McCrystal ripped it up; it's all in our video highlights.
Highlights stage 2

Eventual stage winner Aaron Gate leads the group passed Cahir Castle on the road from Carlow to Tipperary (Photo: Paul Mohan - Sportsfile)

Bryan McCrystal pushes on alone towards the finish after dropping the three men he was with (Photo: Paul Mohan - Sportsfile)

Francesco Reda was doing his own pushing and pulling; and it was the latter that saw him disqualified from the race. The judges were unhappy at how he regained the field by towing off his team car after a puncture with around 20km to go (Photo: Paul Mohan - Sportsfile)

The select group closes in on McCrystal on the final climb where his two-minute lead was wiped out.
