Lavery takes up Rás option

Philip Lavery, one of Ireland’s most exciting young riders, will be in the line-up for this weekend’s FBD Insurance Rás after all.

It was initially expected the 19-year-old Dubliner, currently riding for the LOOK Academy in Belgium, would join the Irish team for next week’s showpiece but it was felt that it might be too close to the Nations Cup race in Canada which takes place four days after the finish of the Rás.