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Year
1991	The club is started by Danny Curtin with two members.
1992	Membership is up to ten.
1993	The Under-Age All- Ireland Championships were organised by the club for the first time and it won 12 medals. First trip abroad- to Wales.
1994	The club hosted the Under-Age Championships for the second year. Thirty seater bus purchased. Visit Wales again.
1995	The Club makes a more adventurous two week trip to France where we raced, toured, trained with local clubs and won five races! A stage end of the Junior Tour was hosted in Kanturk.
1996	A second trip to Brittany.
1997	Willie Curtin captained the Irish Cycling Team at the Youth Olympics and his sister, Helen, represented Ireland at the English Schools Championships. A larger 35 - seater bus is purchased. The club hosts the All-Ireland Under-Age, Veterans and Ladies Championships. It won 19 All-Ireland Under-Age Medals and the Veteran's team prize. The club fund-raising Lottery begins.
1998	Juniors compete in Junior Tour for the first time. Dennis Lynch wins the First Year Junior Category. The club visits Manchester Velodrome for the first time and there is big success in the All-Irelands.
1999	One of the most exciting years for the club. Two mini-busses are acquired and a Spring League is started. There is a second trip to Manchester Velodrome. The first group of cyclist to join the club have now reached second-year Junior ranks and Michael Dennehy wins the Junior National Championships. Along with team-mates Willie Curtin and Dennis Lynch, they win the team prize. Kanturk riders dominated the Junior Tour of Ireland. Later in the season, Daniel Lynch recovers form injury and all are picked for the Irish team for the World Championships in Verona, Italy. There is a big influx on young riders into the club and the U-11 teams come first and second in the All-Ireland Championships. Danny O'Connor, Paudi O'Brien and Barry Meade win outright at U-13, 15 and 16 level. Barry Meade represents Ireland in the Youth Olympics.
2000	The most pleasing part of this year was the continuing strength of the Under-Age activities and the number and quality of riders in the lower age groups.The club again dominated the All-Ireland Under-Age Cycling Championships which were held in Charleville and took sixteen All-Ireland medals in the event which spanned three stages over two days. In the U-11 category, the club took gold, silver and bronze, as well as the team prize. Kanturk also won the U-12 team category, along with individual silver and bronze. Kanturk was second in the U-14 individual category, won the U-15 team prize and the U-16 gold medal. Two under-age riders won places on Irish teams and another on a Munster team. There were numerous individual wins during the year. In the Junior ranks, Kanturk Credit Union Cycling Club had the largest number of riders in the Junior Tour of Ireland. One of the Club's riders won the "King of the Hills" category in the Tour and will represent Ireland in the World Junior Cycling Championships in October. The Club is now beginning to achieve success in the Senior ranks as some of the riders are coming through. The Club won the All-Ireland U-23 Team Championships.
2001	Under-Age Championships Junior Tour Junior and U-23 Championships The Kanturk Club also had success at the All-Ireland Track Championships.Danny O'Connor won a gold medal in the U-16 sprint competition. Along with Evan Dennehy and Maurice O'Brien, Danny also got a bronze medal in sprint and TT competitions Dennis Lynch represented Ireland in the U-23 European and World Championships and Paudi O'Brien rode in the Junior World Championships. Following a very successful U-21 season, Dennis Lynch was offered a place with the VC La Pomme club, based near Marseilles in the south of France.In November, the club hosted a reception to mark his success. The manager of the French club, Messier Frederick Rostaing, attending and said that it was a great honour to him to have been invited it Kanturk to take part in the celebration of Dennis’ continued success. He looked foreword, he said, to further fruitful contacts with the club.The club Chairman, Dennis O’Connell paid tribute to Dennis for this chance which he richly deserved. Dennis Lynch in VC le POM colours, prior to departure (Courtesy Mark Condron / Corkman)