Wexford's Eamonn Boland and his co-driver, Damien Morrissey (Subaru WRC) lead the Circuit of Ireland Rally at the end of the first leg.

World Rally Champion, Sebastien Loeb took his expected victory in the Murphy Construction Cork "20" International Rally.

Dunlop National Rally Championship leader Patrick Elliott (Subaru WRC), with co-driver Rory Kennedy, won a hotly-contested Sepam Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally, the seventh round of the national series.

Derek McGarrity and co-driver, Diarmuid Falvey (Subaru WRC) have won the Kelso based Jim Clark International Rally - a counting round of both the Irish and British Rally Championships.

Meath’s Tim McNulty and co-driver Anthony Nestor gave a faultless display in their Subaru WRC today en-route to a first ever victory in the Ordnance Survey Ireland/Gleneagle Hotel Killarney International Rally of the Lakes.