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By Ben Delaney

Three McQuaids and a friend

Three McQuaids and a friend

Photo: Ben Delaney

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  • Three McQuaids and a friend: Race director Darach McQuaid (in black) with friend Ulrick O’Connor; flanked by Paul McQuaid and Madge McQuaid, who is mother to 10, including UCI president Pat McQuaid.
  • The early break speeds across roads obviously well traveled by sheep.
  • The peloton viewed from atop the Cat. 2 Finny climb.
  • A grim sculpture in Westport stands as memorial to the Famine (those are skeletons ringing the ship).
  • Ironically enough, the feed zone came immediately after.
  • An Irish cross marks the race’s entry into the cliffs along Killary Harbour, Ireland’s only fjord, and into Connemara. Many of the villages along stage 3 are Gaeltacht, meaning Irish-speaking. Good luck reading the signs.
  • Pezula’s Kieran Page spent some time off the front alone. He was good and cracked by day’s end.

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