From Jimmy Walsh (Kilkenny People)
2014 RÁS: The AN POST RAS passes through the area on Saturday next 24th May as it reaches the end of its eight day circuit of Ireland. Having started in Dunboyne the previous Sunday The Rás has been a worldwide sporting institution for over the past sixty years. The Rás arrives in Carrick-on-Suir on Friday 23rd and departs for Baltinglass the following morning before ending in Skerris on Sunday. Leaving Carrick at eleven the colourful peloton of one hundred and eighty riders that includes seventeen national and nineteen county teams competing the gruelling challenge that allows amateur county and club riders to pit themselves against domestic and international professionals will turn left at Maloney's Pub in (Skough). It will than travel along the main road through Birchwood, past Delaney’s Pub in Baunreigh before going right at Hawes cross towards Kilmoganny. On the route the King of the Mountains points will be awarded on The Tullahought Category 3 climb as the race climbs from Hawes cross to the summit at Barnatrasna. After the expected sprint at the peak somewhere near Tommy and Annie Moran’s house on the cross it then continues on down the hill to Kilmoganny. The leaders are expected to arrive at Hawes cross at ten past eleven and will be led by a colourful array of team cars and support vehicles, Camera bikes and Garda outriders. For those attending an early arrival is essential as road restrictions will be in place until the broom vehicle has passed. Local interest will be provided by the South Tipperary and Waterford county teams and the Sean Kelly An Post team as the race passes close by his where his mother Nellie Fitzpatrick was reared in Ballygown by her aunt Bridgid Kenny and also by her old National school in Kilmacoliver.
2014 RÁS: The AN POST RAS passes through the area on Saturday next 24th May as it reaches the end of its eight day circuit of Ireland. Having started in Dunboyne the previous Sunday The Rás has been a worldwide sporting institution for over the past sixty years. The Rás arrives in Carrick-on-Suir on Friday 23rd and departs for Baltinglass the following morning before ending in Skerris on Sunday. Leaving Carrick at eleven the colourful peloton of one hundred and eighty riders that includes seventeen national and nineteen county teams competing the gruelling challenge that allows amateur county and club riders to pit themselves against domestic and international professionals will turn left at Maloney's Pub in (Skough). It will than travel along the main road through Birchwood, past Delaney’s Pub in Baunreigh before going right at Hawes cross towards Kilmoganny. On the route the King of the Mountains points will be awarded on The Tullahought Category 3 climb as the race climbs from Hawes cross to the summit at Barnatrasna. After the expected sprint at the peak somewhere near Tommy and Annie Moran’s house on the cross it then continues on down the hill to Kilmoganny. The leaders are expected to arrive at Hawes cross at ten past eleven and will be led by a colourful array of team cars and support vehicles, Camera bikes and Garda outriders. For those attending an early arrival is essential as road restrictions will be in place until the broom vehicle has passed. Local interest will be provided by the South Tipperary and Waterford county teams and the Sean Kelly An Post team as the race passes close by his where his mother Nellie Fitzpatrick was reared in Ballygown by her aunt Bridgid Kenny and also by her old National school in Kilmacoliver.
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