There were also successes in higher-category races including the one-day Schaal Sels in Belgium and two stage wins at the Tour of Britain.

Its sponsors were ACLVB, the General Confederation of Liberal Trade Unions of Belgium,[3] and M Donnelly, a Dublin-registered company with interests in various technical, sporting and commercial lines of business.

Paidi O'Brien, Benny De Schrooder and Lloyd all wore the leader's jersey during the race, the latter taking overall victory by 36 seconds.

[10][11] 2008 also saw overall victories for Stephen Gallagher at the FBD Insurance Ras in Ireland and Daniel Fleeman at the Tour des Pyrénées which was held in France and Spain.

He also scored one-day race wins at Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem and Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen, as well as a second-place finish at the prestigious Dwars door Vlaanderen.

Team General Manager Kurt Bogaerts noted that moving to Professional Continental level would be prohibitively expensive, but switching to Belgium was possible as long as there were at least eight Belgian riders in the squad.

He won a stage on his way to another overall victory at Ronde de l'Oise before taking his second Lithuanian National Time Trial Championships title.

The future winner of stages at all three Grand Tour races would take his first victory for the team at Grote Prijs Stad Geel.

[20] Andrew Fenn took a stage at Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste and won the one-day race Memorial Philippe Van Coningsloo.

[21] Nico Eeckhout had a quieter season, his sole victory coming early in the year at Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen.

Gediminas Bagdonas had another strong season, taking five victories representing An Post and a further four riding for the Lithuania national team.

Nico Eeckhout scored the biggest one-day win in the team's history with victory at Schaal Sels, and also won Omloop der Kempen.

Roy Jans claimed the Kattekoers, also known as Gent-Wevelgem U23, and Kenneth Vanbilsen took the win at Ronde van Vlaanderen U23 representing the Belgian National Team.

He also won stage three of the Tour d'Azerbaïdjan and finished in sixth place overall, with Primož Roglič taking the race victory.

Regan Gough started the year by winning the New Zealand National Cycling Championships under-23 time trial, and was the highest placed under-23 in the combined road race.

Damien Shaw was victorious on stage one - his only win for the team - and held the race lead for three days of the Tour du Loir et Cher.

This was the only victory of his professional career, and ensured that the team's streak of winning a stage or the overall at the race extended to ten consecutive seasons.