Donegal’s Donagh Kelly (Ford Focus WRC) and his Monaghan co-driver Conor Foley pulled out all the stops to deny the Monaghan/Wexford duo of Josh Moffett/Andy Hayes victory in the Four Seasons Hotel Monaghan Rally, round three of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship.

Monaghan’s Josh Moffett (Ford Fiesta WRC) and his Wexford co-driver Andy Hayes took a start to finish victory in a round of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship.

A rallying year which began with uncertainty ends in style tomorrow with a capacity entry list for the Rentokil-Initial Killarney Historic Rally.

Clonmel’s Roy White (Ford Fiesta WRC) claimed his first victory in a round of the Irish Tarmac Championship courtesy of his win on the Macroom based CBtooolhire.com Cork “20” International Rally.

Although Monaghan’s Josh Moffett (Ford Fiesta WRC) won the Clare Rally, the penultimate round of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship, he faces an uphill battle to win the series after his main rival Donegal’s Declan Boyle, co-driven by James O’Reilly came home in fifth.

After a dramatic opening on the final leg of the Easter Rally in Antrim, when the Subaru WRC of overnight leaders Derek McGarrity/Paddy Robinson failed to start after transmission troubles, Monaghan’s Josh Moffett (Ford Fiesta R5) and his Wexford co-driver Andy Hayes took the spoils and consolidated their lead in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.

A teenager who died when she was ejected from a car as it plunged into a low-lying field on the Cork-Kerry border had not been wearing a seatbelt.

Another Moffett win, but, this time, it was the younger sibling, Josh: he won the Enniskillen-based Trailer Parts and Spares Lakeland Forest Rally, the penultimate round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship and a round of the Northern Ireland Rally series.

The asbestos-related cancer death of a former oil rig worker should be highlighted in the hope those who did similar work are identified and screened.

Triple British rally champion Keith Cronin from Ballylickey, with co-driver Killarney’s Mikie Galvin, are back into contention for this season’s Prestone MSA British Rally Championship (BRC) as they annexed top points in the Ypres Rally in Belgium, the first overseas round in the 59-year history of the BRC.

Three men who were involved in a notorious sulky race involving two horse-drawn sulkies and a fleet of cars applied yesterday to be allowed back on the road before the end of their five-year driving bans.

The Saudi Arabian embassy will pay €2,000 in damages caused by a master’s degree student who set upon a fellow student with nunchucks, a Dublin court has heard.

Five Dublin men have been jailed for between three and seven and a half years for killing a 20-year-old in a 14-minute attack. A woman has been jailed for one year for violent disorder during the attack and another man has received a suspended sentence for possession of a knife at the time.

One of the most touching moments of the past year’s commemorations happened 100 years to the minute after the first fatality in the Easter 1916 Rising.

The two most prestigious awards within Irish motorsport were presented to the sport’s brightest talents last evening as Monaghan’s Josh Moffett, 24, scooped the Billy Coleman Award for the Young Rally Driver of the Year while Ciaran Carey, 22, from Rathoath, Co Meath, won the Sexton Trophy for the Young Racing Driver of the Year.

The trial of seven people charged with murdering a man, who was beaten to death, has heard that another man seen punching and kicking him repeatedly was charged with assault causing harm.

The trial of seven Dubliners charged with murdering a man, who was beaten to death, has heard that another man seen punching and kicking him repeatedly was charged with assault causing harm.

Donegal cousins, Declan and Brian Boyle (Fiesta WRC), won the Hyundai Limerick Motor Centre Clare Rally, the penultimate round of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship.

The only missing element to Roy White’s Triton Showers National Rally Championship victory is an event win in a round of the series. 

The GAA stadia are not the only places where Tipperary are illustrating their sporting prowess this season. Success for the Premier county natives has also transcended the highways and byways of Ireland and one is on the cusp on landing Irish rallying’s National title.

Cork SFC - Castlehaven 0-14 Clonakilty 0-13: Celebratory team photos are rare enough after first round clashes, but the Castlehaven lads had no problem posing for the one supporter who managed to meander her way through the several high-vis jackets guarding the entry to the pitch at full-time on Saturday evening.

In his first full season on-board the FESP liveried Ford Fiesta WRC, Clonmel’s Roy White, the current leader of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship knows there are difficult times ahead as his rivals begin to apply the pressure.

We look at the timeline of events during Easter Week in 1916.

The State’s 100th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Rising takes place at the graveside of the 14 executed insurrection leaders at Arbour Hill, Dublin, tomorrow.

A cast iron toffee axe — normally used to break up large slabs of toffee in confectioner shops — became a weapon in the hands of a looter in O’Connell St.

A father-of-two died following a road crash as he made his way home from hospital after meeting his newborn baby.

In spite of the governments claim that the commemorative events it organised for the victims of violence during 1916 would be inclusive, it has not done so

Charleville 5-24 Dripsey 1-10: Glory for Charleville in Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday night, as the north Cork club made up for last year’s heartbreak at the hands of Fermoy to cruise to the Cork intermediate hurling title.

Cloughduv 1-19 Clonakilty 0-10: Cloughduv had little difficulty in seeing off Clonakilty in the Cork JHC quarter-final tie at Brinny yesterday.

The fourth round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship, the Jim Walsh Cork Forest Rally in Mallow, proved to be an epic contest between Cork driver Owen Murphy (Mitsubishi) and his Limerick co-driver Anthony Nestor, who managed to overcome the spirited challenge of Monaghan’s Jost Moffett/John Rowan (Mitsubishi) to claim a 7.4 second victory.

The Donegal/Derry combination of Donagh Kelly/Kevin Flanagan (Ford Focus WRC) continued their dominance of the Triton Showers National Rally Championship with a facile victory on the Deebert House Hotel Circuit of Munster Rally that was based in Kilmallock.

Moving into the lead on the second stage, the Waterford/Cork pairing of Andrew Purcell/Liam Brennan brought their Kumho shod Mitsubishi EvoIX to victory in the Donegal Forest Rally, the second round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship.