Strong international cycling challenge in Rás Mumhan

With five former winners on the start-line and a large overseas contingent competing, this weekend’s Kerry Group Rás Mumhan certainly lives up to its name as one of the country’s foremost international stage races.

Aside from the An Post Rás next month, the four-day event which starts today continues to attract the best talents from home and abroad with this year’s start-list arguably the best for a decade.

The Netherlands, Lithuania, the UK and Scotland are just some of the nations represented but it’s the Irish who have dominated the event in recent years.