The year's first grand tour will spend three days on the Emerald Isle, including a run through Dublin, before moving to Italy

A conversation with UCI president Pat McQuaid

Organizers of the Tour of Ireland have canceled the 2010 edition of the stage race, which had been scheduled for August 18-22.

@lancearmstrong: Good morning Dublin. Who wants to ride this afternoon? I do. 5:30pm at the roundabout of Fountain Road and Chesterfield Avenue. See you there. What started out as a simple Tweet from his mobile phone just hours earlier turned into a Lance Armstrong frenzy when over a thousand riders turned up at 5:30 in Dublin’s Phoenix Park Tuesday evening. An army of Armstrong fans turned up from all over Ireland, and indeed from various other countries, in the hope of getting to ride with their idol, and they were not disappointed.[nid:97151]