Sean McKenna of the Irish National team is the new race leader of the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan after a thrilling stage around south Kerry yesterday afternoon.

With five former winners on the start-line and a large overseas contingent competing, this weekend’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan certainly lives up to its name as one of the country’s foremost international stage races.

Limerick wholeheartedly supported Páirc Uí Chaoimh hosting of the county’s Munster SHC final against Cork at Tuesday night’s decisive meeting — despite chairman Oliver Mann’s pictured comments that the call did "not make sense".

EUGENE MORIARTY would dearly love to win the race dedicated to his grandfather, legendary track cyclist Gene Moriarty, in his native Listowel on Sunday but feels that, at this point, it may be a bridge too far.