{"id":607266,"date":"2026-05-27T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607266\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:00:13","slug":"conor-murphy-team-ireland-ras-tailteann-withdrawal-clarified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/607266\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Murphy, Team Ireland | R\u00e1s Tailteann withdrawal clarified"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Conor Murphy went into R\u00e1s Tailteann as one of the young riders to watch, and carrying big hopes for Team Ireland, though things did not work out as planned (Photo: Toby Watson)<\/p>\n

By Shane Stokes<\/p>\n

Prior to the R\u00e1s Tailteann it seemed that Conor Murphy might be one of the key performers for Team Ireland. He raced to a superb silver medal in last year\u2019s European junior championship time trial and is now under the guidance of the Decathlon CMA CGM Development team, the youth squad of Decathlon\u2019s WorldTour outfit.<\/p>\n

However, things didn\u2019t go to plan on R\u00e1s Tailteann for the 19-year-old, with the Co Louth rider not starting stage three.<\/p>\n

Stickybottle spoke to Team Ireland manager Martyn Irvine to understand what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a bit of a gamble. Conor has not had a great early season so we were trying to give him a bit of a good experience here,\u201d he said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he had a bit of an injury last week, damaged ligaments in his ankle due to a crash, and he carried the injury into the R\u00e1s. We hoped that he could race into the race, that it would heal itself and he would feel good with himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever he had a spill on the second stage, crashing into a ditch after rain heading out the road. That doubled down on the injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Murphy finished stage two and could have continued, but spoke to his Decathlon team about the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he had a talk with a few experts and they advised him,\u201d Irvine said. \u201cThe advice of the powers that be was that it was not worth it for the sake of the season, so I think he made a good decision to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irvine said that he understood that Murphy headed to the Santry Sports Clinic on Friday evening and got a scan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say it is a case of rest and ice and all that sort of usual tedious stuff you have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team Ireland riders were present in many attacks during the race, including juniors Hugh Og Mulhearne and Fionn Killeen.<\/p>\n

Liam Crowley had hoped to bid for the overall but lost time on stage one due to a crash. He shifted his focus to the mountains competition and dominated that.<\/p>\n

He clocked up 58 points, 27 more than the next closest rider Ewan Mackie (Connaught Cycling).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Murphy went into R\u00e1s Tailteann as one of the young riders to watch, and carrying big hopes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-607266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}