Junior Tour of Ireland under threat due to funding crisis

The future of the Junior Tour of Ireland, the biggest race for U18 riders in the country, is under threat because of a funding crisis.

Race director Alice Sherratt has admitted the event, which doesn’t have a sponsor, has been surviving on cash reserves accumulated during the Celtic Tiger era.

However during the downturn organisers were forced to turn to those reserves each year with the monies now “reaching an end point”.