The Cycling Ireland Cross Country National Points Series (NPS) gets underway this weekend.
Team WORC will host to Round 1 on April 19th in Co. Wicklow. Volunteers from the host club have been working hard to make some exciting changes to the course ahead of the first of six rounds of this year’s series.
Round 2 will take place on Sunday, May 10th, as part of the Wicklow MTB Festival. Biking.ie will once again host the three day festival, this year encompassing the second rounds of both the IDMS and NPS.
Racing heads north for Round 3, as Banbridge host in Co. Down on May 24th, before heading to the opposite end of the country for Round 4, where Fermoy play host on June 7th in Cork.
Round 5 will also be in Co. Cork, with Tracton Woods the venue on June 21st.
The final round of the series takes place in Union Woods, Co. Sligo a week later, on June 28th.
2025 National Champion Chris Dawson already has his season underway on the international scene, taking podiums in races in both the Netherlands and Spain.
Caoimhe May and Ryan Daly have both been in action ahead of the NPS. May finished fifth in the first round of the British Series, and Daly riding the Junior World Series race in Albenga, Italy in March, and just last weekend was fifth in the Junior Men’s race at the second round of the British Series.
Having made the jump from Junior into the Senior ranks for 2026, Greta Lawless, started her season with a road racing focus, but a strong seventh place finish in the Women’s Elite race at the second round of the British Series sets her up nicely for the season ahead.
