These video highlights capture a stage of high drama for the Irish, showing Philip Deignan and Eddie Dunbar on the attack and capturing Dunbar's unfortunate crash.
It was a day of high drama for the Irish on the Tour de Yorkshire, with a fantastic ending for one of our men and a disastrous one for our youngest gun.
Eddie Dunbar of the NFTO Pro Cycling team may have been the youngest rider in the race but that didn't stop him getting up the road in the early five-man move.
He demolished the early climbers' primes - as the video below shows - and when his breakaway was being caught he attacked it and was the last man standing.
Dunbar's escape moves clear of the peloton, headed by Team Wiggins rider Mark Christian, formerly of An Post-Chainreaction. Dunbar is almost completely obscured in this shot, but is fourth in line and tucked in behind the Madison-Genesis rider with the orange helmet.
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Shortly after being recaptured, he fell on the same slippery bend as some of the Team Sky riders and others and his race was over, with a suspected broken collarbone.
That spill is unfortunately also captured in this clip.
In the final hour of racing, Philip Deignan of Team Sky was the driving force. It was his riding on the front that split the field on the lumpy and exposed roads.
And when a group of five pulled clear from the scattered peloton, the Donegal man was there with team mate Lars Petter Nordhaug.
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When the race got serious in the final hour or so, Deignan was all over the action; riding hard and from the front.
The pair worked over the breakaway very well, with Nordhaug taking the win after some great racing.
And like Dunbar's key moments, Deignan's aggression is also captured in the clip below.
The only other Irishman in the race, Matt Brammeier had a quieter stage and came home in 79th, 14:52 down.
Based in his form so far this season, including making the escape in the Tour of Flanders, we might see more of the MTN–Qhubeka man before the race concludes on Sunday.
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