May dates announced for 2024 Rás Tailteann

The 69th edition of the Rás Tailteann will start in County Offaly and takes place from Wednesday, 22 May to Sunday, 26 May.

The historic race kicks off in Tullamore, where the first stage finish will be in Kilmallock; the first Rás stage to finish in the County Limerick town.

The 2024 edition will also have finishes in Sneem on the famous 'Ring of Kerry’, Cahir, which will see the first finish there since 1967 and Kildare Town.

The fifth and final stage finishes in Bective, Meath, where the race will take in three laps of a 14.1km spectator-friendly finishing circuit.

Over 784kms of Irish roads awaits this year's entrants with a total of eighteen categorised climbs over the five stages, including two x category one climbs on stages two and four.