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| | History of Irish Cycling by Seamus Shortall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | When Stephen Roche won the world road race championship in Villach in 1987 to complete his amazing hat trick he was bridging a 91 year gap in Irish cycling history. |
 | | These days, names like Kelly and Roche could be added to the list, for whenever cycling is discussed around the open fire, their achievements, particularly those of the teak tough Carrick-on-Suir man, are magnified to mythological proportions. |
 | | Then there was Stephen Roche but, as they say in Gaelic, sinn scéal eile, or translated into the vernacular, that's another story. |
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