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Last Updated: Apr 29th, 2009 - 14:04:52 |
Some pictures from the stage taken by Peter Purfield
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| The leaders of all the classifications with Paul Lennon the Manager of Lough Lannagh Village were the races has been based for the last four years |
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| One of the early breakaway attempts |
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| Another break heading for Newport |
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| The bunch is chasing hard |
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| Finally a group has broken clear |
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| The bunch is chasing hard as they go out along the Atlantic coast |
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| A chase group leaves the bunch and gets across to the leaders |
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| The Hot Tubes team try to splitt the leading group |
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| The bunch has eased of the chase now |
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| Two more riders cross the gap to the leaders |
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| Race Leader Philip Lavery seems unconcerned about the break back in the bunch |
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| The mountains leader takes off as they climb to the KOH on Achill Island |
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| The rest of the leading group |
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| The yellow jersey group climbing the KOH on Achill Island |
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| The third group on the road |
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| After the climb the two leading groups have merged |
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| The leading group splitts again, this is the fist half passing Mulranney |
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| The next group rides hard and gets back up to the leaders |
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| Then with about 20 kms to go one rider goes away on his own |
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| The lone rider is caught before the finish by four riders |
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| Sam Bennett takes the stage, his second win in three days of racing |
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| The next group finishing |
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| Charles Prendergast (Stena Ireland Team) was one of the casualties during the many crashes throughout the day |
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| The stage winners with Tosh Lavery representing the Stage Sponsors the Irish Veteran Cyclists Association |
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| The Podium after Stage 3, the only change is Gavin Mannion (Hot Tubes) takes the White Jersey to lead the First Year Junior competition |
We have been experiencing technical difficulties posting pictures during the event, if we don't get to publish pictures for all the stages during the event, we will instead post full coverage after the event here on IrishCycling.com.
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are © Copyright Peter Purfield 2000 - 2009, www.IrishCycling.com
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