Motorsport: Doherty didn't foresee meteoric rise 

In his first full season in a Skoda Fabia R5, Kilkenny's Eddie Doherty leads the Triton Showers National Rally Championship ahead of Sunday's sixth round, the STS Group Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally that is based in Clonmel. Picture: Martin Walsh.

For the most part, Eddie Doherty’s rise to prominence within Irish rallying has been pretty much under the radar - up until now. 

The Mooncoin native, who won a Leinster MHC medal as a wing-back with Kilkenny in 2015, is still in his first full season in an R5 car that he debuted in last year’s Fastnet Rally in Bantry finishing fourth overall.