Some pictures from the stage taken by Peter Purfield
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
One of the early breakaway attempts
Another break heading for Newport
The bunch is chasing hard
Finally a group has broken clear
The bunch is chasing hard as they go out along the Atlantic coast
A chase group leaves the bunch and gets across to the leaders
The Hot Tubes team try to splitt the leading group
The bunch has eased of the chase now
Two more riders cross the gap to the leaders
Race Leader Philip Lavery seems unconcerned about the break back in the bunch
The mountains leader takes off as they climb to the KOH on Achill Island
The rest of the leading group
The yellow jersey group climbing the KOH on Achill Island
The third group on the road
After the climb the two leading groups have merged
The leading group splitts again, this is the fist half passing Mulranney
The next group rides hard and gets back up to the leaders
Then with about 20 kms to go one rider goes away on his own
The lone rider is caught before the finish by four riders
Sam Bennett takes the stage, his second win in three days of racing
The next group finishing
Charles Prendergast (Stena Ireland Team) was one of the casualties during the many crashes throughout the day
The stage winners with Tosh Lavery representing the Stage Sponsors the Irish Veteran Cyclists Association
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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