This drone footage of the three St Patrick's Day events in Carrick-on-Suir shows the race action, including some really spectacular shots of the bunches snaking through the countryside.
Here’s a great highlights clip of the St Patrick’s Day races at Carrick-on-Suir (below); most of it shot from a drone in the skies above the action.
There’s footage of all three races in here – the combine A1-A2 event and separate A3 and A4 races.
The scenery really adds to the quality of this clip, with the bunches filmed snaking around the general area of Carrick on Suir, the Comeragh Mountains and Kilmacthomas.
The film by Peter Fitzgerald shows the finishes of the races, with some interesting action at the end of the A1-A2 contest.
Philip Lavery (Unattached) and Conor Hennebry (Aquablue) had broken clear of a very select breakaway to fight it out for victory.
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The experienced and streetwise Lavery had ridden very strongly in both the breakaway and when he got clear with Hennebry.
Inside the last kilometre the group behind was close but was clearly not going to catch them.
Lavery decided to focus firmly on the win; sticking Hennebry on the front and refusing to come around him.
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The 25-year-old then picked his spot to open his sprint and whipped around his rival, just after the leading pair had slowed right down in their game of cat and mouse.
You can just about make out that action in the clip below.
Peter Fitzgerald puts these clips together for fun, but he’d be a good man to film a longer highlights film of some of the major races on the domestic scene.
He can be contacted on Facebook by following this link. He’s posted the clip below on his YouTube account MullenBeg.
Drone highlights
The footage captures some spectacular countryside as well as race action.
A nice line-out shot between the fields.
The highlights include the finishes of all three races, A4 above. There's some good shots of the A1-A2 finish, with winner Philip Lavery sticking runner-up Conor Hennebry on the front and refusing to come around him as the group behind closes in, headed by Sean McKenna and Michael O'Loughlin.
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