Thanks to Mark Radley and his committee who organised a table quiz for over 300 people in Dungarvan on saturday night raising 8,000 euro for NBCRI and AWARE through RTR....
Dungarvan Table Quiz
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2012 Race the Rás Launch
This Years Launch seen some great people get involved for the benfit of our charities, The National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) and Aware ” Helping defeat depression”. ...
Mick Hoare – A Sad Loss to RTR and Cycling
It is with great sadness that RTR announces the passing of our Director Sportif Mick Hoare on Monday 12th January after a short illness with cancer. He will be sorely missed by all of us who had the pleasure of knowing him and working with him on RTR 2011. He drove the RTR lead car with great gusto around Ireland and ran ‘Race the Ras’ as efficiently as the Tour de France. A true friend...
The Reason We Do What We Do – Gerry McDermott
Race The Ras are sad to announce the passing of Gerry McDermott last night (Friday 18th November 2011). Gerry was a part of the committee in the early days of Race The Ras but had to step back from his duties due to increasing ill health. Gerry was able to attend our presentation ceremony at the first Daffodil Centre in October. Unfortunately Gerry has lost his fight with cancer and all of the family at...
Final Race The Rás Cheque Presentations To Goal and The Irish Cancer Society
On the 23rd of September Race The Rás made the final donations to our 2 nominated charities for 2011. At the opening of the new Daffodil Centre in Beaumont Hospital we were delighted to present the Irish Cancer Society with €100,000 and Goal with €40,000. Thanks to all the team, cyclists and supporters of Race The Rás that made this possible. Here is some information on where the fruits of your hard work has gone:...
Ireland Rugby Stars Sporting The UV Bands
Rob Kearney and Andrew Trimble took some time out from their Ireland Rugby Team training session at Carton House to show off their support for our UV Band Awareness campaign....
More GAA Stars Proudly Wearing The UV Wristbands
Below you’ll find some great photos of GAA stars wearing the UV wristbands that increase the awareness of the risk of skin cancer. Thanks to all those that have helped Race The Ras out with these. Meath Players: Paddy O’Rourke, Caoimhin King, Kevin Reilly, Brendan Shane McAnarney, Stephen Bray,Mickey Burke, Cian Ward Banty McAnaney (Meath manager) celebrating after beating Galway in Navan. Graham Canty and Kieran Donaghy tussling for a ball in the Munster Final....
Race the Ras Promoting Skin Cancer Awareness
One of our main aims in tackling the An Post Ras was to raise awareness of the dangers of the sun and the subsequent risk of developing skin cancer. The incidence of skin cancer is rising all the time with 8,145 cases diagnosed in 2009 alone! With this in mind, we have been asking some high profile GAA players to wear our UV wrist bands during the championship season. These UV wrist bands change colour...
Bill Cullen Donation Presentation
This past weekend Race The Rás founder (and cycling apprentice) Eamonn O’Muircheartaigh was presented with a cheque for €1000 from Bill Cullen. Bill’s motor group not only donated the money to RTR but were kind enough to provide 3 support vehicles for the Race The Rás team. Next year we hope that Bill (a keen cyclist) will join us on the roads under his own power! Also pictured are Rory Doogan from Renault Ireland and...
Last Call for Donations Raised 2011
Dear Cyclists First of all congratulations to all those that cycled their hearts out on some of the toughest stages The Rás has ever seen. Secondly, in order to close out fund raising efforts on 2011 and get the books in order to be able to present your hard earned donations to our charities we have to implement a close off date for deposits in to our bank account. That date is 30th June 2011...