July 28, 2008
With summer finally arriving in Wexford almost 100 riders signed on for the 4th Eddie Tobin Memorial Road Race in Enniscorthy. With either 6 or 4 laps of the undulating circuit to complete under a hot sun it was always going to be survival of the fittest.
In the A/B race the strongest proved to be [...]
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July 28, 2008
Slaney CC’s youngest member, 10 year old Adam Thatcher, completed his first 2 day race this weekend.
Riding in Gorey at the Arklow Waste Disposel sponsored 2 day race Adam finished in 7th place on saturdays road race. Sunday morning brought a time trial where Adam improved to a 6th place finish but his hopes of a [...]
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July 23, 2008
Congratulations to Alex Williams from all at Slaney Cycling Club on winning the Comeragh league at the final event last night in Waterford. Alex has been very consistant throughout the season both in league and open races. Hopefully his good form will continue at the Eddie Tobin Memorial Race on Sunday next. Keep up the [...]
July 21, 2008
Next Sunday, July 27th, Slaney CC host the fourth edition of the Eddie Tobin Road Race. The event has provided great racing over the past three years with some of Irelands top riders taking the honours, Ciaran Power in 2005, Morgan Fox in 2006 and Brian Kenneally last year.
This years event is again sponsored by The [...]
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July 16, 2008
By Bill JordanÂ
Watching last Mondays stage 10 of the tour prompted me to write this report of the day that myself and Mick tackled the exact same stage one week earlier in the 2008 etape.
Our day began at 3.30am with a breakfast pushed down with strong objections from our bodies. The reason for this early [...]
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July 13, 2008
 Great result for Slaney
The club was well represented in Portlaoise today with Frank Dunne and Alex Williams in the A/B race and Murt Doyle, Shane kelly,Steven Kelly, Ken Blanche and Paddy Dunne in the combined race. Hope I have all the names!
Murt Doyle was placed 3rd o/all in the C event with Shane Kelly taking [...]
July 12, 2008
Placings for race 8:
3rd Heather Purcell
6th Murt Doyle
July 10, 2008
The Kilmore Festival race on Friday night has been cancelled.
July 7, 2008
Some more photo’s of the event are available at http://pix.ie/liamr/albums and click on “Tour de France cycle” album.
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