Sligo Pallets ends sponsorship with Irish Forest Rally Championship 

Strabane's Ryan Caldwell (Skoda Fabia R5) was the first winner of the Irish Forest Rally Championship in the Sligo Pallets era that began in 2023. Picture: Martin Walsh.

Irish company Sligo Pallets has terminated its sponsorship of the Irish Forest Rally Championship due to what the company's chief executive Andrew Mullen has termed "ongoing and unresolved communication issues with the Forestry Sub Commission." According to the regulations for the series, the "National Forest Rally Championship is promoted by Motorsport Ireland and the National Forestry Sub Commission." 

Sligo man Mullen is no stranger to motorsport and rallying in particular. Long before he agreed to underpin the national forest series in 2023, Sligo Pallets supported high-profile drivers like Eugene Donnelly (five times Irish Tarmac champion, national rally champion and a former national forest rally champion) and Garry Jennings (Irish Tarmac champion). Last season marked the company's 14th year of title sponsorship of the popular Border Rally Championship.