Matt Griffin drives for the iconic Italian car company Ferrari at LeMans but would be just as happy driving his Peugeot up Molls Gap.

Kerry County Council is seeking a reassessment of key sections of the national road network in the county after some of its main roads were closed due to flooding in December, a meeting in Tralee has heard.

The largest event of its kind in the world, Killarney Adventure Race, welcomed record numbers of 2,500 participants this year.

A severe weather alert remains in place today after torrential rain destroyed roads and flooding cut off part of the Mizen peninsula in West Cork yesterday.

Killarney Adventure Race 2015 will take place in the picturesque tourist town of Killarney on October 3rd.

LEHID BRIDGE, KENMARE, CO KERRY

With endless exotic rides and a few token exotic birds, anyone dining on Cork’s busiest boardwalk last night could be forgiven for thinking they were witnessing a revival of Men and their Motors.

A fleet of supercars is set to roar in to Cork City for a special pit-stop later this month.

You know when Irishmen start talking about organic pomegranate juice with the same fervour that once applied to pints that things are getting serious.

An ambitious target of €100,000 is being set for supporters of an annual cancer research fundraiser.

GALE force winds and driving rain led to flooding in many parts of the country yesterday, and it will also be a case of more of the same tomorrow night.

A MAN is set to run the scenic Ring of Kerry in a single day to raise funds for a little boy who has stunned medics by his recovery from pioneering surgery for a fatal brain disease.

SOME of the most renowned stages in Irish rallying, like Moll’s Gap, Caragh Lake and those in the Béara Peninsula, are the principal reason Tim McNulty opted to compete in this weekend’s Cartell.ie Killarney International Rally of the Lakes, the third round of the Irish Tarmac Championship, instead of last week’s Circuit of Ireland Rally.

PAUL GRIFFIN has come mightily close to landing the overall title at Rás Mumhan on several occasions but the teak-tough Tralee native reckons this year might well be his last chance at the yellow jersey.

WILD deer roaming around Co Kerry are endangering people’s lives and damaging property, it was claimed yesterday.

THE former stage winner may have ridden the race 17 times and an 18th appearance is in his plans for this year but when Stephen O’Sullivan was handed the title of Route Director for this year’s An Post Rás by his father-in-law, Dermot Dignam, avoided soft options and came up with one of the most difficult routes in the history of the event.

CYCLING legend Sean Kelly saddled up yesterday to lead the first leg of a 600km fundraising cycle tour of Munster.

THERE will be familiar scenery for the race cavalcade to view when the 2008 FBD Insurance Rás hits the road on May 18.

A senior garda, Killarney Superintendent Michael Maher, has said poor communication infrastructure hampered Monday's emergency operation near Molls Gap.

BASED on previous performances, Dessie Nutt is the obvious favourite in Sunday’s Killarney Historic Rally.

UP to 25 people were arrested in Killarney, Co Kerry, over the weekend for public order offences.

CONTAINING some of the most daunting stages in Irish rallying, this weekend’s Ordnance Survey Ireland/ Gleneagle Hotel co-sponsored Killarney International Rally of the Lakes, has several potential winners.

KEVIN DAWSON will be defending his Credit Union Ras Mumhan title in Kerry over the Easter Weekend when the race will attract a record number of overseas riders.

MAINTAINING his remarkable run of success on the Killarney Historic Rally, Dessie Nutt, co-driven by Geraldine McBride in a Porsche 911, won his fifth title when he finished the ten-stage event a minute and twenty one seconds ahead of the similar Porsche of John Keatley/Maurice Beckett.

For the fifth time in succession, Dessie Nutt (Porsche 911) has won the Killarney Historic Rally.

BILLY COLEMAN, arguably Ireland’s greatest rally driver, will be honoured this evening at the Motorsport International Show at the Simmonscourt Pavilion where a video entitled Tarmac Titans will be launched.

The organisers of the EPS Bison/Red Mills 2002 Killarney Historic Stages Rally, the Killarney & District Motor Club, have attracted entries from the leading exponents of Historic and Classic rallying from Ireland and further afield for the event which will take place on Sunday, December 1.

This morning’s first stage of the Rally of the Lakes, saw Andrew Nesbitt in his Subaru WRC set a stunning time of nine minutes and 22 seconds to claim the Bertie Fisher trophy - awarded to the driver who set the fastest time over the renowned stage.

Derek McGarrity and co-driver, Chris Patterson started and finished today’s first day of the Ordnance

Killarney will play host to Ireland's leading drivers on May 4 and 5, when the International Rally of the Lakes returns to the sporting calendar, after a year's absence due to the foot-and-mouth scare.