WITHIN hours of arriving in Ireland Dutch cyclist, Dion Beukeboom, outsprinted the race favourites Brian Kenneally and Paul Griffin to win the first stage of last year’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan, and trailed them all the way to the finish three days later when he ended up third overall.

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

READ it carefully. Today, 15 teams bid to scale the highest peak in each of the 32 counties in 100 hours or less.