Boyles clinch Dunlop title with fifth win

With their fifth win of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, Donegal cousins Declan and Brian Boyle (Subaru WRC) clinched the series with an emphatic victory in the Clonmel-based Sepam Tipperary Stone-throwers Rally.

They finished a minute and 57 seconds ahead of the Cork/Tipperary duo of Roy White and James O’Brien (MG S2000) with the Welsh crew of James Belton and Mark Glennerster (Subaru WRC) 29 seconds further behind.

On the first stage, Midleton’s Daragh O’Riordan (Ford Fiesta WRC) punched in the best time, a fraction ahead of Boyle (Subaru WRC) and followed by Clonmel’s Roy White (MG S2000) and the Subaru pair of James Belton and Niall Maguire.