The biggest event of the Irish cycling calendar, the Rás Tailteann, will begin from Drogheda tomorrow, with an international field battling over eight days. The race, in its 66th year, will see the top domestic riders take on teams from the United States, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands and Britain.

Matt Brammeier will race for the first time since his horror crash at the Tour of Utah last year when he goes to the line as part of the Dimension Data squad for tomorrow’s Trofeo Felanitx and Friday’s Trofeo Port de Pollenca Andratx in Majorca.