Here are some of the emails we received from visitors to the Live Updates page.
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Your emails will go straight to Shane who is with the race and will appear here later as time allows.
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EMAILS RECEIVED FOR LAST YEAR'S EVENT
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Hi Shane,
Great work as usual on the Ras Live Reports. It's great to know that the high quality live reports are available every year, and this year was no different!
When it's difficult to get to Ras Stages, the Ras Live Reports are a great resource for people, as reading them is like actually being there watching the live action!!
Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Well done to the overall winner, Bagdonas, the Irish stage winners; McCann and Irvine and of course the Comeragh CC Team who did their club and county proud!
Regards,
Gary Power.
Comeragh CC.
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Shane, well done great to be able to get up to the minute coverage. Sorry about bad reception on the Kerry hills, but I got to meet all the former Ras winners Paudie Fitzgerald, John Mangan and especially former Ras men Sean O'Conner, Mr Lacey and their loyal supporter and listner Mr. Moriarty all from far away Tralee.
All on Molls Gap in a storm of rain and wind.
Thanks again
Louis Moriarty
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Hi Shane,
Congratulations on excellent coverage of the An Post Ras all week. Each new post is eagerly awaited and you really convey the story of the stage as it happens. I am eagerly following the progress of the whole race but with particular focus on the Mayo Western Edge Medical Communications Team, who are doing fantastically in the County Team Classification.
Thanks for keeping us updated Shane.
Regards,
Kevin Dunleavy, Castlebar Cycling Club
following the Ras from Singapore
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Your updates are a much appreciated… not much work or housework getting done here !
C’mon Team Skoda Ireland .
From Pauline ( Brighton, East Sussex )
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Excellent Stuff Shane,
You coverage and detail and expression in such a short few lines has been fantastic....
You should be very proud of yourself...spirit of the RAS is alive and well....
Thanks,
Mike
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Thanks for the live Ras updates and photographs. Well done to all the riders; I'm very proud of my brother!
From a Leitrim Observer
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Hi,
Enjoying the coverage.
Any chance the "The An Post Grant Thornton M. Donnelly Sean Kelly team" could be referred to as "An Post et al." ? It's quite a mouthful otherwise...
Alan
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Hi Shane,
Great, to tune in again for you’re live coverage and keep up to date with what’s happening. It’s hard to believe it’s another year. Keep up the good work…….
Martin Thompson
Gdynia Poland
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Thank you for all the live updates, Ras passes through Mallow on Friday with local cyclist 20 year old Richard Hooton cycling on the Cork Kanturk team. We have family, friends, neighbours and anyone else we can muster coming out to support Richard, his team mates and the Ras cyclists. Children from local schools will also be out in force to cheer them on so please give a big thank you to everyone for their support. Their support means so much to the county riders who are the real "Men of the Ras'!!!
Thank you
Noreen Hooton
Anxious Mother!!
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Thanks for the great live report Shane, it is keeping us out of bed here in Australia..
THANK YOU - Mark Windsor
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Hi thanks for the great running comments on the ras, keep up the good work.
Regards Peter Mac
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Great race report... well done.... Felt like I was there.... especially when one of my lads did so well.... County rider! glued to your updates.
Thanks a million... keep them coming.
Ras Mum
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Thanks for all the updates. Much appreciated.
Pauline English
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Did the Croi charity cycle around lough corrib today so understand that head wind .see u on corkscrew hill tomorrow. Will be 100km winds on top of the Burren
Keep up the good work.
Sean Kilduff, Ardrahan Co. Galway
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The scene is set for a great finish today
Brilliant band playing at the finish line in Portumna - The Bogus Pogues
John Breen
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Love the live updates. Could you add what towns the Ras has come through as they pass? WE are in Riverstown outside Birr and want to watch the Ras go by. We'd like to estimate when they'll be here.
Thanks - Joe Kearns