Pedalling the name Aqua Blue - Ireland’s first pro cycling team

Brian Canty travelled last weekend’s Tour de Yorkshire with Aqua Blue Sport, Ireland’s first ever pro cycling team. With an estimated 2.2m people watching the three days, brand exposure almost ranked up there with glory

A rail-thin Dutch rider screams up the outside of the Aqua Blue Sport team car under a gunmetal grey sky on the road between Tadcaster and Harrogate.

“This convoy is fucking insanity,” he barks in the window, before picking his way up through the cavalcade of cars en route to the relative safety of the peloton.