McCann looks for Rás lift in Wicklow mountains

DAVID McCANN (Ireland National Team) just can’t wait for tomorrow’s penultimate stage which takes the FBD Insurance Rás high into the Wicklow Mountains where he feels the destination of the overall title will be decided.

McCann, who won the title in 2004, clung on to the race leader’s yellow jersey yesterday with the two-time winner, Chris Newton (Stena Rapha), breathing down his neck all the way.

Newton, a former world track champion who holds Olympic silver and bronze medals beat McCann for the stage win into Lisdoonvarna on Tuesday but the Belfast man turned the tables in Tralee on Wednesday when he ended up on equal time with Newton at the top of the general classification sheet and took the yellow jersey from crash victim Mark Cassidy (An Post/Sean Kelly) on better placings.