Club riders in action over the weekend

Cuchulainn had a huge turn out at Newry Wheeler's John Haldane Memorial promoted on Sunday last. The race consisted of a 9 mile lap along the dual carriage way out to Warrenpoint and back and was run off in atrocious conditions, cold, wet and very windy.

In the main race, covering 54miles, 6 Cuchulainn men were on the start line. Alan Grey, who had taken a prize the day before when racing in Summerhill, had a great day making it into the chase group and coming home in 6th position. Gary Shiels, Sean Loughran and Nial Clarke were very active throughout the race, while Colm Quinn was unlucky to puncture at the half way mark.

In the women's race Cuchulainn had 4 women brave the conditions, Annette Dolan, Fiona Rogers, while Debbie Lundy and Rosemary Gibbson were competing in their first ever race. Fiona had an outstanding race to come home in fifth, while Annette was riding well in the bunch all day, but was caught behind an accident some 5km from the finish.

In the masters race Jimmy Flynn was unable to defend his win of a year ago, coming home in 8th position. In the other support races Declan McCabe, Karl Dolan, Thomas McCabe, Gary Morten, Alan Bingham and Barry Douglas all finished safely in the main bunch.

The day before, Alan Grey, Michael Barry and Liam Dolan had competed in the main race in Summerhill, held over 55miles. Again Alan was on form taking second in the A2 prize.