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Paris-Nice – Le Championnat des Irlandais

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https://www.podiumcafe.com/2011/3/2/2025003/ParisNiceKellyRoche Paris-Nice - the Irish years. By Feargal McKay @fmk_RoI   Mar 2, 2011 For eight years in the eighties , Paris-Nice was an Irish race. Between Stephen Roche's win in 1981 and Sean Kelly 's last visit to the top step of the podium in 1988 , no other nation took victory in la course au soleil. An impressive enough stat. Made even more impressive when you look at the history of the race: it's never happened before. The story of Paris-Nice's Irish years is very much the story of Ireland's two stars of the era , of who they were, where they came from and how they came to make the impression on European cycling that they did. And that story begins with the man from Carrick-on-Suir, Sean Kelly. When Kelly turned pro and joined Flandria in 1977 the team was split into two squads. The main one - DS'ed by Guillaume (Lomme) Driessens - was based in Belgium and was headed by Freddy Ma