Rás remembers Kennedy

When the An Post Rás pulls out of Dunboyne tomorrow for the first stage to Kilkenny, there will be an air of sadness about the race cavalcade.

The loss of Rás legend Seamus Kennedy to illness a couple of weeks ago will leave a void in this year’s 60th edition of the race and Irish cycling without one of it’s greatest characters.

Kennedy won the Rás in 1978, a Meath man riding for the Kerry team. He also took nine individual stages in a glittering career, including a hat-trick in 1972.