Chris Newton Stena Rapha Condor ReCycling.Co.Uk Winning Stage 3 Of The FBD Insurance Rás From Claremorris To Lisdoonvarna

Stage 4: Corofin To Tralee 156 Kms.   D. McCann (Ireland)  3-53-36

David McCann Ireland Wins Stage 4 From Corofin To Tralee

David McCann Ireland Won Stage 4 Into Tralee And Got The Race Leaders Yellow Jersey

Stage 5: Tralee To Skibbereen 141 Kms.  S. Richardson (Britain Plowman Craven)  3-35-01

Simon Richardson Plowman Craven Wins Satge Five Of The FBD Insurance Rás From Tralee To Skibbereen

Stage 6: Skibbereen To Clonmel 180 Kms.  C. Power (Pezula)   4-17-56

Ciaran Power Pezula Ireland Wins Stage 6

Stage 7: Clonmel To Roundwood 177 Kms.  W. Dyble (Poland) 4-41-49

Wojciech Dybel Poland Outsprints Kit Gilgam Kinesis To Take Stage 7 Of The FBD Insurance Rás Into Roundwood

Stage 8: Newbridge To Skerries, 130 Kms.  D.O'Loughlin (Pezula)   3-22-13

David O'Loughlin Ireland Pezula Outsprints Evan Oliphant Britain Plowman Craven To Take The Final Stage Of The 2008 FBD Insurance Rás Into Skerries

David O'Loughlin Pezula Winner Of The Final Stage

General Classification

Overall Winner
 

Stephen Gallagher Ireland An Post With The George Plant Trophy Overall Winner Of The FBD Insurance Rás 2008

Second Overall 

Roger Aiken Ireland Second Overall @ 1.42

 

Third Overall

Rob Partridge Stena Rapha Condor ReCycling.Co.Uk 3rd Overall

Best Young Rider Under 23 Years 

D Appleby

Points

D. Downing, Britain Stena Rapha

Mountains

K. Gilham,

International Team Winners Ireland An Post

M. Cassidy, B. DeSchrooder, S. Gallagher, D. Lloyd, P.O'Brien

County Team Winners Dublin IRC Ushers

Dublin IRC Ushers Insulations Neil Delahaye, Colm Cassidy, Simon Kelly, Peter Hawkins And Linus Murphy Winners Of The Overall County Team Award

First County Rider

Stephen O'Sullivan Meath Myhone.ie Receives His Trophy For County Rider From Philip Cassidy Cycleways

List Of Competitors 2008

Ireland  1    David McCann 2.   Paul Griffin 3.   Roger Aiken 4.   Michael Concannon 5.   Robin Seymour Team Poland 11.  Rafal Ratajczyk 12.  Wojciech Dybel 13.  Jaroslaw Dabrowski 14.  Mateusz Komar 15.  Blazej Janiaczyk Britian (Pro) Stena Rapha- Condor ReCycling.Co.Uk       21.  Christopher Newton 22.   Kristian House 23.   Dean Downing 24.   Dale Appleby 25.   Rob Partridge Ireland (Pro)An Post  Grant Thornton Sean Kelly 31.   Paidi O'Brien 32.   Mark Cassidy 33.   Stephen Gallagher 34.    Benny de Schrooder 35.   Daniel Lloyd Norway(Pro) Team Sparebanken Vest 41.   Stian Remme 42.   Morten Hegreberg 43.   Havard Nybo 44.   Christer Rake 45.   Tamas Lengyel France  Provence Alpes Cote D'A 51.  Stevens Aubert 52.  Florain Fina 53.  Jean Marc Maurin 54.  Nicolas Ligier 55.  Renaud Pioline Team Isle Of Man Microgaming-Dolan-High 5 61.   Andrew Roche 62.   Graeme Hatcher 63.   Warren Flynn 64.   Martin Ford 65.   Ken Hanson Britain Team Kinesis 71.   James Sampson 72.   Matt Cronshaw 73.   Tom Last 74.   Josh James 75.   Kit Gilham Dublin McNally Swords 81.   Kevin Donagher 82.   Stephen Halpin 83.   Jason O'Callaghan 84.   Ciaran Lewis 85.   Paul Healion Dublin Dundrum Town Centre 91.   Stephen Surdival 92.   Cian Crowley 93.   Con Collis 94.   Graham Hurley   95.   Shane Hurle Kerry Total Cleaning Supplies 101.  Niall Brosnan 102.  Brendan Lacey 103.  Denis Dunworth 104.  Simon Coughlan 105.  David Brennan

Netherlands 6.   Levi Heimans  7.   Maurice Schreurs  8.   Patrick Kos  9.   Tim Van Der Zanden  10.  Ismael Kip  Iran (Pro) Azad University 16.  Amir Zargari 17.  Abbas Saeiditanha 18.  Sayed Mostafa Khormizi 19.  Farshad Salehian 20.  Mehdi Faridi Kovij Britian (Pro) Team Plowman Craven 26.   Simon Richardson 27.   Alex Higham  28.   Tom Barras 29.   Neil Coleman 30.   Evan Oliphant Ireland(Pro) Team Pezula 36.  Ciaran Power 37.  David O'Loughlin 38.  Kieran Page 39.  Cameron Jennings 40.  Derek Burke Bulgaria  Team Nessebar 46.   Georgi Georgiev 47.   Bogdan Stoychev 48.   Spas Gyurov 49.   Martin Grashev 50.   Stanislav Zaralie Germany Team Stevens von Hacht 56.  Rene Birkenfeld 57.  Johannes Sickmuller 58.  Ole Quast 59.  Sascha Wagner 60.  Yannik Kiedt Britian Surrey Racing League 66.   Andrew Bye 67.   Wouter Sybrandy 68.   Chris McNamara 69.   Chris Moores 70.   Dave Sinclare Britian South England Team Primera Sport.Co.Uk 76.   Daniel Davis 77.   William Hedden 78.   Tom Kirk 79.   Matthew Melville 80.   Danny Carroll Dublin IRC Usher Insulations 86.   Peter Hawkins 87.   Linus Murphy 88.   Neil Delahaye 89.   Simon Kelly 90.   Colm Cassidy Dublin  Eurocycles 96.   Urban Monks 97.   Michael Butler 98.   Daire O'Sullivan 99.   Mark Nestor 100. Sean Lacey Kildare Newbridge 106.  Corman O'Shea 107.  Richard Malone 108.  Diarmuid Carew   109.  Michael Storan 110.  Nathan Jones

Overall Jersey Winners Dale Appleby White Rob Partridge 3rd Overall Kit Gilham Pink Mountains Jersey Dean Downing Green Sprints Winner Yellow Overall Winner Stephen Gallagher, Roger Aiken 2nd. Overall And Stephen O'Sullivan Overall County Rider

Chris Newton Britain Stena Rapha Condor On his Way To Win Stage 3 In Lisdoonvarna

Mark Cassidy Ireland An Post Suffers After Crashing On Stage Four While In The Race Leaders Yellow Jersey

Stephen Halpin Swords Competed In His First Rás In 2008

Peter Hawkins Dublin Usher IRC

Dermot Dignam Race Organiser Presenting A Painting Of The 2007 FBD Insurance Rás Winner To Adrian Taheny Of FBD Insurances To Mark Their 25th. Year Of Sponsorship

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