Top motorsport event the Circuit of Ireland is back significantly enhanced for 2014 with the announcement today that the iconic rally is one of 12 set to feature in next year’s revamped FIA European Rally Championship calendar. Scheduled to take place during its traditional Easter Week-end slot on 18-19 April, the Circuit of Ireland Rally is being billed as one [...]

Carryduff’s Barry Greer grew up with a family immersed in the world of motorsport. His father, Davy Greer, is still a regular face on the rally scene and runs DGM Sport, a successful rally hire and preparation business. Being surrounded by rallying from such a young age, it was no surprise that both Barry and his brother Jonny also picked [...]

When Sam Moffett and co-driver James O’Reilly brought their McKinstry hired S14 specification Subaru Impreza WRC over the finish ramp as winners of the Hillgrove Hotel Monaghan Stages Rally on Sunday, it was the climax of what had been a very fraught 48 hours for the crew… The fraught journey to contest the Monaghan Stages Rally started one week earlier [...]

Darren Gass and Enda Sherry head an impressive entry for this year’s Triton Showers Easter Stages Rally, round two of the Irish Tarmac Championship and round three of the Carryduff Forklift MSA Northern Ireland Rally Championship. They will be joined by the likes of Derek McGarrity, Declan Boyle, Garry Jennings, Kenny McKinstry, Donagh Kelly and Kevin Barrett, as well as [...]

Robin Phillips, the 2000 Northern Ireland Rally Champion, is set to make a surprise return to the stages this Easter! The Saintfield driver has entered the Triton Showers Easter Stages Rally in a DGM hired Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 and will be navigated by his 19-year-old daughter Laura. It was almost 13 years ago that Robin clinched the N.I. title [...]

Rally driver Brian O’Mahony from Carrigaline, Co. Cork, and co-driver John Higgins from Kiltimagh, Co.Mayo, will not forget St. Patrick’s weekend 2013 anytime soon. The pair won the annual West Cork Rally, a gruelling event that takes place over two days on 200km of West Cork’s most difficult tarmac roads…

“We are out. Car rolled but both OK. Sure we had to give it a go!” Those are the words that Coleman Hurley, navigator for Denis Cronin, posted on RallyForums.com shortly after exiting the Quality Hotels West Cork Rally on the final stage. The crew had been embroiled in a battle for rally victory with Brian O’Mahony and John Higgins…

Unfortunately for Kevin and Martin Kelleher, their Quality Hotels West Cork Rally challenge came to a fiery end on the opening stage of the event when their S9 spec Impreza WRC caught fire. The crew were forced to pull over and jump out with fire extinguishers in hand in an attempt to get the blaze under control. Both men are [...]

Rumours have been circulating the internet in recent days linking Kris Meeke to the new Hyundai rally team so RallyForums.com decided to pose some pertinent questions to the popular Dungannon driver. In our interview, Meeke unveiled the truth behind the rumours, and also told us of his switch to the navigating seat when retired cricket star Freddie Flintoff took to [...]

Banbridge rally ace Kenny McKinstry has just purchased an S14 specification Subaru Impreza WRC! The former Northern Ireland Champion is hoping to take it to tomorrow’s McGrady Insurance Bishopscourt Stages, round two of the Carryduff Forklift N.I. series, but when we spoke to him at 6.30pm on Friday evening, he was under a bit of pressure… “It’s all a last [...]