Revival is the central theme to the weekend events in both rallying and racing.

At first glance, the Irish motorsport calendar is a list of more than 220 events at various locations involving several spectrums of the sport.

In a close finish to the Modern Tyres Mourne Rally, round five of the Carryduff Forklifts Northern Ireland Rally Championship, Drew Stewart (Ford Escort) took a 12-second victory over the Mitsubishi of Andrew Stewart.

Remarkably, for the fifth time in recent years, the Carlton Hotel Circuit of Kerry Rally, the third round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, ended in a tie-break.

WITH little room for error, Tim McNulty (Subaru WRC) and co-driver, Paul Kiely were pushed all through the Hotel Kilmore Cavan Rally before claiming their fourth successive victory in the Dunlop National Rally Championship.

MULTI-disciplined civil engineering consultancy White Young Green (WYG) is looking to reduce dependency on its core markets of Britain and Ireland and boost contribution from its international business to around 35% of group revenue.

WHITE Young Green (WYG), the British headquartered civil engineering consultancy group, has said that its Irish operations contributed strongly to the group’s interim results for the six months to the end of December.

A post mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of a man found dead in Athlone over the weekend.

The clocked rolled back at the Phoenix Park Motors Races where spectators saw Roger Saul in his Alfa Romeo P3 Sports win the Irish Ferries Commemorative Irish Grand Prix race.

Mathew Gilmore and Michael Keohane finished first and second in today’s final race of the British Formula 3 Scholarship Class at Brands Hatch.

George McAlpin extended his Ford of Ireland Ford Zetec Championship lead courtesy of a win on the eighth round in Kirkistown.

The seventh round of the Ford of Ireland Ford Zetec Championship at Kirkistown has been won by Michael Devaney.

Colin McRae, in his Ford Focus RS World Rally Car, maintained his lead through the second leg of the Acropolis Rally.

Cork racer, Alan Dwyer proved the master of the wet conditions in Mondello Park this morning to take pole position for this evening's fifth round and tomorrow's, sixth round of the Irish Formula Ford Championship.

After claiming pole position, George McAlpin went on to win the third round of the Irish Formula Ford Zetec Championship at Kirkistown today.

In the second race of the Green Flag British Formula 3 Scholarship Class, Michael Keohane, driving with the Irish registered Meritus team, battled his way from his first round misfortune to claim second place behind Robbie Kerr.