Christmas comes early to Denis & Mary Ryan Car Sales, Ardrostig, Bishopstown in Cork where there will be a Citroën Open Weekend today and tomorrow.

Fifth-generation Opel Corsa

Last Thursday Opel revealed the first official pictures of the new, fifth generation, Corsa supermini.

Young Irish rally drivers can showcase their talents when the first ever Irish Junior Rally Championship gets underway tomorrow.

THE driver of a Garda patrol car put his life on the line yesterday to protect a mother and baby during a 40km high-speed chase through Co Cork in which dozens of motorists were forced off the road, Garda cars were rammed and speeds in excess of 160km/h were reached.

Always having more pace than his rivals, Derryman Kevin Lynch parented by Francis O’Regan (Subaru WRC) won the Midleton-based Moonraker Rally, round four of the McCauley Trailers Irish Forest Rally Championship.

Ireland’s Austin MacHale and co-driver, Brian Murphy (Ford Focus WRC) are beginning today’s final leg of the International Rally of Wales in third place with Northern Ireland pair Kris Meeke/Chris Patterson ((Corsa) in seventh spot and leading the Super 1600 category.

The top drivers in the Scottish Rally were dogged with punctures as Jonny Milner, in his Toyota Corolla WRC took a dramatic last stage victory over the Subaru of Tapio Laukkanen.

Cork driver, John McCarthy kept his one hundred per cent record in the KBB Doors National Forest

Opel says it won't axe workers and close European plants, following talks with union representatives.