Organisers of the Cartell.ie Rally of the Lakes (May 1-3) will use the stages along the Beara Peninsula on the opening day of the event rather than the second and final day as in previous years.

Around a million people and more than 40 world leaders - including the Taoiseach Enda Kenny - are expected to take part in a rally in Paris, after 3 days of terror, that left 17 people dead.

A huge security operation is being prepared ahead of unity marches in France, as the hunt for a fugitive linked to the Paris massacres took a new twist.

With their fifth win of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, Donegal cousins Declan and Brian Boyle (Subaru WRC) clinched the series with an emphatic victory in the Clonmel-based Sepam Tipperary Stone-throwers Rally.

Red Bull has launched an official protest against Mercedes in the wake of their rivals conducting a secret tyre test with Pirelli.

Tens of thousands of people held the largest anti-government protests that post-Soviet Russia has ever seen today to criticise electoral fraud and demand an end to Vladimir Putin's rule.

WITH the announcement of the 2011 Billy Coleman Award winner just days away, some of its former incumbents are busily planning for next season even though one driver is being coy about his plans.

Waterford’s Craig Breen has won the World Rally Championship Academy title after a dramatic last day at Rally Great Britain.

CONCERNS are growing about the future of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.

DOUBLE British Rally Champion Keith Cronin has shelved his progress to the next level of the sport due to a lack of opportunities.

REIGNING Intercontinental Rally champions, Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle in their Peugeot 207 S2000 are sixth overall after the opening leg of three stages of the Sata Rallye Acores, the seventh round of the series.

WITH the margin for error in both the Dunlop National Rally Championship and the Dulux Trade British series diminishing as both championships near conclusion, this weekend’s Dominic Quinn Body Repairs/Sligo Park Hotel Rally and Rally Isle of Man are of major significance to their respective title protagonists.

Inheriting the lead on today's third stage of the final leg of the Dick Bailey Wexford Rally, last year's winner PJ McGrath (Subaru) went on to net back-to-back victories.

Gareth MacHale, co-driven by Brian Murphy in their Ford Focus WRC have won the Letterkenny based Topaz Donegal International Rally.

In today's Hotel Kilmore Cavan Rally, Dunlop National Rally Championship series leader Niall Maguire (Subaru) increased his championship lead courtesy of an eight-second victory over local driver, Patrick Elliott (Subaru WRC).

Citroen's Sebastien Loeb edged closer to the top of the World Rally drivers' standings after holding off a valiant fightback by BP Ford duo Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala to win the Rally of Italy.

Irish driver Phillip Morrow and his co-driver, Daniel Barrett, in a Mitsubishi, finished fourth overall in the Carlisle-based Pirelli Rally, the first round of the British Rally Championship, today.

Eugene Donnelly, one of the most successful drivers in Irish rallying has been forced to end his bid to land a record breaking fifth successive Irish Tarmac title.

REIGNING World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb’s hopes of extending his early-season advantage at the top of the standings were ended after he crashed out of the Swedish Rally.

The FIA World Motorsport Council in Monaco has voted to award Ireland a round of the World Rally Championship (WRC) once again in 2009.

Reigning World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb produced a masterful second half of the day to lead the standings after leg one of the rally of Corsica.

IT’s easy to see just why Sebastien Loeb is the World Rally Champion, thousands of spectators had first hand experience over the weekend as he set a scintillating pace in the Murphy Construction Cork 20 International Rally.

World Rally champions, Sebastien Loeb and co-driver, Daniel Elena (Citroen C4 WRC) dominated this second leg of the Shell Donegal International Rally, the fifth round of the Global Group Irish Tarmac Championship.

FORD’S Marcus Gronholm was in commanding form to build an 11.1-second lead over title rival Sebastien Loeb at the Swedish Rally.

Former World Rally champion Colin McRae’s return to the series looks to have come to an end after just one event.

Colin McRae will race his first rally for almost a year after being drafted in to replace world champion Sebastien Loeb in the Kronos Citroen team for Rally Turkey.

Irish crew, Austin MacHale/Brian Murphy (Ford Focus WRC) finished second in the Scottish Rally, some, two minutes and 10.6 seconds behind the Ford Focus of Mark Higgins/Bryan Thomas.

Former World Rally champion Colin McRae is to appear at the Ordnance Survey Ireland Rally of the Lakes 2005, which will take place over the May weekend.

Former World Rally champion Richard Burns has thanked his fans for their continued support as he continues his battle against a brain tumour.

Colin McRae will cram three days work into one flat-out blast through the African desert today as he looks to build on a fine start to the Dakar Rally.

THERE is a vast forest wilderness in the border country between England and Scotland — roughly half way between Hexham and Hawick — known as the Kielder complex and in rallying terms this bleak, barren unforgiving landscape is as central to the mythology of the sport as Monaco is to Grand Prix racing.

TOMORROW'S Edinburgh-based Jim Clark Memorial Rally unites the Toshiba Computers Irish Tarmac and the Pirelli British Rally Championships for the first of three occasions this season.

Gardaí are today investigating the deaths of two marshals struck by a rally car during a race in north-west Ireland.

The Buy & Sell Circuit of Ireland Rally was won by Andrew Nesbitt and co-driver, James O’Brien.

The 2002 Toshiba Tarmac Rally Championship begins this weekend in counties Fermanagh, Leitrim and Donegal with the Buy & Sell Circuit of Ireland.

World rally champion Richard Burns has resolved his legal wrangle with Subaru, leaving him free to race for Peugeot next year.

Colin McRae, favourite for the World Rally Championship until he overturned his car in the final round of the Rally of Great Britain, has served notice on new champion Richard Burns that he will be gunning for the title next year.