In a week where the FIA announced changes to the World Rally Championship for 2017, the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship Organisers (TROA) were hit with a backlash to their proposed rule changes for 2016 — a ban on the current World Rally Cars from winning the series — with the announcement that the Donegal International Rally was withdrawing from the series.

Changes to the selection process for next season’s Billy Coleman award are unlikely — even though it is always under review.

The quest for supremacy in the Dunlop National Rally Championship reaches its conclusion tomorrow on the nine stages of the Donegal Harvest Rally, which is based in Donegal town.

THERE is unlikely to be a stampede of Irish applicants for the second intake at the FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy.

TIME may be running out for Tim McNulty’s rivals to thwart his bid for the Dunlop National Rally Championship title.

IT seems there is no room for manoeuvre in the Irish Motorsport calendar that cannot accommodate the re-scheduling of its more high profile events.

ABOUT 1,500 people attended a memorial service for rally crash victim Thomas Maguire in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, yesterday.

A man has died following a tragic accident at the Donegal International Rally Club this afternoon.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl who was struck by a car in front of a number of other children was one of four young people killed in road accidents over the weekend.

The third leg of the Donegal International Rally will not take place tomorrow following the death of a spectator today.

A spectator has been killed at an Irish rally event today, race organisers have said.

The Motorsport Commission, the committee responsible for all motorsport in Ireland, met to review the tragic events of last Friday at the Donegal International Rally, which left two marshalls dead.

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

Two marshals died and three men were injured when a rally car crashed into a crowd of spectators in north-west Ireland today.

Tragedy marred the opening day of the Shell Donegal International Rally when a competing car went off the road on the second stage near Ballybofey.

Sports organisations have welcomed millions of euro in National Lottery grant funding announced by the Government.

Minister for Tourism and Sport, Dr. James McDaid, has praised the decision of the Donegal Motor Club to cancel two rallies due to be held in the coming