Midway through the Seven Oaks Hotel/Dargan Tools Carlow Rally, former Irish National Rally champion, Stephen Murphy and co-driver, Mickey Joe Morrissey (Subaru) have a 22 second lead over the Subaru of Ray Breen/Andrew Purcell with Patrick Elliott/David Moynihan, also in a Subaru, a further 15 seconds adrift.

Derry’s, Eugene Donnelly, in his Rally of the Lakes winning Subaru WRC has a 37 second lead after four of the eight stages of the Suirway Forklifts Raven’s Rock Rally, the sixth round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship.

Ray Breen, in a Subaru Impreza, was the fastest driver through the first stage of the Cork Single Rally on the outskirts of Cloyne.

Richie Curran (Escort Cosworth) ran out an easy winner of the Carrick Suirway Single Stage Rally in Carrick on Suir.