The Irish cycling road racing season of 2026 started on Saturday 28th February, here is a video of the Dublin Wheelers Open Races run off around a circuit at Summerhill in county Meath.
Dublin Wheelers Cycling Club – Open Races
Held in Summerhill, Co Meath – Saturday 28th February 2026
RESULTS
Mick Lally Memorial C1 Race 87.8km
1 Jack Woods Crabbe Dstny
2 Daire Feeley Burren Cycling Club
3 Liam Crowley Orwell Wheelers CC
4 Cian Keogh APS PRO Cycling
5 Liam Kilkenny Galway Bay CC
6 Tadhg Killeen Kilcullen CC Murphy
7 Ruairi Byrne UCD Cycling Club
8 James Connolly Dungarvan CC
9 Rian Cahill Athy Wheelers CC
10 Conor McKeown Moynalty CC
Ian Gallahar Memorial C2 Race 65km
1 Andrew Connolly Dungarvan CC
2 Craig Byrne Bray Wheelers
3 Jorge Rua Riveiro Un-Attached Leinster
4 David Hayes TEAM BIKEWORX Celbridge
5 Martin Casey Velo Revolution / Speed Queen
6 Matt Lynch Orwell Wheelers Cycling Club
7 James Griffin Waterford Racing Club
8 Philip Browne Usher Irish Road Club
Willie Marks Memorial C3 Race 42km
1 Tom Hughes Kilcullen CC Murphy
2 Harry Parnell Lucan Cycling Road Club
3 Benjamin Bergin Lucan Cycling Road Club
4 Luke Canavan Dignam Galway Bay CC
5 Robin Kelly Waterford Racing Club
6 John Priest Lucan Cycling Road Club
7 Joshua Francis Orwell Wheelers CC
8 Paul Rogers Lucan Cycling Road Club
The events were organised by the Dublin Wheelers CC
Video and Editing by Peter Purfield
0:00 ‘C1’ Race
5:21 ‘C2’ Race
9:43 ‘C3’ Race
12:40 Results
4 Comments
Good video
Thanks for that Peter
Every single rider is in the same position. "Hands on Top of the Hoods". It's like watching a mountain bike race. No wonder there are so many crashes today. You can't react as quick because your hands are not as close to the brake levers. Reason for this is frame angles, sloping top tubes and ridiculous saddle to stem high in proportion to each other. Bike racing is now nothing more than a sad reflection of the sad society will live in.
Amateur racing in the 70's 80's and 90's was as exciting as pro racing. Cycling today is as boring to look at as paint drying on a wall. The dog barking in the video is more entertaining than looking at this slop.