Even though they led from the first of the eight stages, Waterford’s, Andrew Purcell (Subaru WRC) and his co-driver, Mick Courtney had to fend off a determined challenge from reigning national forest champions, Stephen Moore/Tony McHugh (Ford Focus WERC) to win the Sean Conlon Memorial Tipperary Forest Rally.

The old saying that you never get what you deserve in life will be one which Damian Richardson’s Cork City side will have empathised with last night after a frustrating encounter with Shamrock Rovers.