Motorsport: McNeill dominates in Mitchelstown Rally

Setting fastest times on the first three stages, Dominic McNeill/Francis Regan, in an Escort WRC, have opened up a substantial lead in the Sean Conlon Memorial Forest Rally in Mitchelstown.

The Ballymena driver is one minute and 16 seconds ahead of the Subaru Legacy of Ollie O’Donovan/David Moynihan, who arrived at the finish of S.S. 2, Kilcoran, with a punctured rear wheel and a damaged front wheel.