The 1980's was a special time in Irish Cycling with the successes of Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche on the world stage. The pictures here are how cycling was going in Ireland during that decade.

These are some pictures that were on negatives I dug out from old boxes in my garage. I must add, I'm not a sports photographer, I just took pictures as a hobby, so the quality is variable and action photography back then was a lot more difficult than today with the modern digital cameras.

The reason I am posting these pictures now is because a couple of years ago I bumped into an old friend of mine Peter Morton. He told me the old pictures I had been posting on my website (IrishCycling.com) are the only coverage from those years and they are an important record for the sport. That got me thinking and I put it on my bucket list to publish what I can find in videos and pictures over the next number of years. Sadly Peter Morton passed away earlier this year, it's thanks to him that started me putting these online.

Pictures and Editing by Peter Purfield

Enjoy - More to follow when I have time