DAVE LORDAN has always enjoyed fooling with words. When he was a kid growing up in Clonakilty, Co Cork, he was surrounded by people who enjoyed playing with words telling jokes, storytelling, singing funny songs and the likes.

Another cracking day’s racing on the An Post Rás saw the Swiss team play pass the parcel with the yellow jersey as Nicolas Baldo took over the race lead and young Frenchman Thomas Rostollan lived up to his nickname of ‘little motorbike’ to claim stage three into Buncrana.