Despite having rolled their Citroen DS3 WRC seven times in yesterday’s shakedown stage, Tyrone’s Kris Meeke and his Killarney co-driver Paul Nagle (Citroen DS3R3) made it to the start of last evening’s Super Special in the Lotos 72nd Rally Poland, round seven of the World Rally Championship.

Milk trucks from Tipperary dairy co-op Arrabawn have made their first collections from 12 ex-Dairygold suppliers in Kilcorney, Co Cork.

The Irish crew of Kris Meeke/Paul Nagle (Citroen DS3 WRC) made a bright start to Rally Poland – round seven of the World Rally Championship – and hold third place, seven seconds behind the VW Polo WRC of leaders Sebastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia heading into today’s seven stages.

Bloodstock sales firm Goffs last year recorded a seven-fold increase in pre-tax profits to €755,000 after ring revenues topped €102m.

Dairygold shareholders have endorsed the co-op’s post-2015 €150m expansion plan, following two back-to-back meetings yesterday at its premises in Mallow, Co Cork.

Anything up to 9,000 members of Dairygold are expected to visit the Powder Store on the co-op’s premises at Mallow, Co Cork, for this morning’s two meetings.

Dairygold’s modular expansion plan is ideally constructed to allow the co-op to react to any shortfall in anticipated global demand for milk, said IFA’s Kevin Kiersey.

Members of Dairygold are to demand that the co-op host an emergency meeting to discuss shelving the Milk Supply Agreement.

Dairygold Concerned Farmers Action Group is urging farmers not to sign the milk supply agreement (MSA), having failed to convince the co-op to adopt what it says is its more tax-efficient model.

Farmers should seek expert legal and business advice to assess their projected overall personal debts before signing their Dairygold milk supply contract, warns one member of the Dairygold Concerned Farmers Action Group.

Dairygold farmers should engage with the co-op’s one-to-one milk supply contracts sessions, while the board should revisit any option to share additional processing with Glanbia, said IFA dairy committee chairman Kevin Kiersey.

Giving members more time in which to increase their shareholding in line with their output would alleviate one core issue with Dairygold Co-op’s contentious new Milk Supply Agreement (MSA), says one milk supplier.

Up to 1,200 of Dairygold’s 3,000 farmers say they will not sign the co-op’s new milk supply agreement, one group opposed to the new contract says.

Food giant Dairygold has dropped a controversial penalty clause from its new milk supply contract.

One young farmer signing up to Dairygold’s new milk supplier agreement will need to earn over €53,000 pre-tax just to cover his contributions to the co-op over the next six years, says a group of suppliers opposed to the deal.

Dairygold’s new milk supply agreement has divided opinion among the co-op’s members, with many having signed up, but many more unhappy or seeking clarity on the seven-year contract.

Non-expanding milk suppliers will not contribute to the deferred (“13th”) payment mechanism that Dairygold is introducing from May, 2015.

SPECULATION is rife that next year’s Circuit of Ireland Rally will be included in the global Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) series.

A DRIVER who was inside her car as it plunged over a cliff was rescued after she spent a night perched on the face of the 300ft precipice.

FROM a season where little went wrong, culminating with victory in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge for Kris Meeke/Paul Nagle, the current defence of their crown is proving almost the total opposite.

Lewis Hamilton today launched a new initiative aimed at attracting the general public into motorsport.

Motorsport South Africa have become the latest organisation to call on Max Mosley to stand down as president of the FIA.

Max Mosley has been re-elected as president of world governing body the FIA, giving him a fourth consecutive term in office.

Ireland’s first motorway service station, with 16 fuel pumps, is to be built on the new M7 near Monasterevin, it emerged today.

Many Army veterans could die before a long overdue pension allowance allowance is paid to them, it was claimed tonight.

Germany's BASF AG have not commented on the French government's decision to suspend the sale of its Regent insecticide, which may pose a danger to bees.

The 2002 Toshiba Computers Irish Tarmac Championship will consist of eight rounds - four of which are within the jurisdiction of Motorsport Ireland and the rest under the auspices of the Motor Sport Association (MSA) its British counterpart.

Former Formula One world champion Jackie Stewart has welcomed the International Automobile Federation’s decision not to take the British Grand Prix off the championship calendar for next season.

Former national rally champions, Peadar Hurson and Ian Porter, in their Toyota Celica ST205, are the early leaders of the Cedar Hotel Wexford Rally.

The British Grand Prix at Silverstone is under no threat from foot-and-mouth unless the crisis spirals out of control.