Cork pair Daragh O’Riordan and Mikey Walsh (Ford Fiesta WRC) won the Rose Hotel Circuit of Kerry Rally in Tralee — round two of the Top Part West Coast Rally Championship.

Monaghan’s Sam Moffett (Ford Fiesta WRC) produced a start-to-finish victory in the Jim Walsh Cork Forest Rally, to increase his chances of winning all three major Irish rally championships.

The father of a man murdered by loyalists nine years ago has spoken out against plans to release one of the killers.

The SDLP has slammed calls by a DUP press officer for the release of two loyalists convicted of carrying out a 1998 double-murder in Co Down.

A loyalist gunman who killed two people in Co Down seven years ago has failed in an attempt to secure early release under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.