NEW ZEALAND are to enter a team for the first time in the prestigious FBD Rás (May 23-30).

The An Post Sean Kelly Team is back on home soil for the first time this year ahead of this weekend’s FBD Rás, which gets underway in Kilcullen, Co. Wicklow on Sunday.

CHRISTIAN HOUSE (Recycling.co.uk) held off the challenge of American Danny Pate (TIAA-CREF) to win the FBD Insurance Ras in the tightest finish in the history of the event when the race ended in the seaside down of Skerries yesterday.

THE Martin Donnelly/Sean Kelly professional cycling team will make its Irish debut in this weekend’s five stage Credit Union Rás Mumhan in Co. Kerry.

TWO more former winners have been added to the list of entries for the FBD Insurance RÁS, which gets underway in Dublin on May 22.