Griffin into the great unknown

PAUL GRIFFIN has a very good record in the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan but goes to the line for Friday’s start as an unknown quantity.

“I don’t know myself what my form is like this year,” he admitted as he put the finishing touches to his preparations. “I know we have developed a love-hate relationship over the years but this is a race I would love to win.”

The teak-tough Tralee man went close last year when Brian Kenneally came back to win the title for a second time and then there was the year when he held the yellow jersey with a second to spare over fellow Kerry man, Eugene Moriarty, and ended up third when John Dempsey (Dan Morrissey Carrick Wheelers) and Conor Murphy from Monaghan) slipped away on the final stage.