14 Oct 25

The Premier Car Parts Dogleap Rally took place last weekend. The Maiden City Motor Club event was based in three separate forests between Claudy and Coleraine, ‘Loughermore Forest East’, ‘Loughermore Forest West’ and the ‘Cam Forest’.

On the six special stage event, Jack Casey and Ciara Duggan took their Volkswagen Up home in 41^st overall and 3^rd in Class 9.

In the Isle of Man, Kaine Treanor navigated Andrew Purcell to 2^nd overall onboard their Škoda Fabia RS Rally2.

Over in Austria, Conor Mohan was navigating for Eamonn Kelly on the Herbst Rallye 2025. The pair were using this event as a test session in preparation for the Junior World Rally Championship event, ‘Central European Rally’ (CER) which takes place on similar asphalt roads this weekend.

The Herbst rally also attracted two main drivers from the World Rally Championship as both Sébastian Ogier (Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT) and Adrien Fourmaux (Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT) used this event to perfect their car set up for the CER.

On this eight special stage event, Eamonn and Conor brought their Ford Fiesta Rally3 home in 4^th place overall and 1^st in the RC3 class. Kelly/Mohan held 4^th place and 1^st in class from the end of SS1 the entire way to the finish. During the eight stages, they only failed to win a stage (in class) on three occasions, (SS3, SS5 and SS7) and took an 8.0s RC3 win over fellow JWRC competitors Ali Türkkan and Oytun Albayrak.

The County Monaghan Motor Club AGM will take place this Friday the 17th of October at 8pm in the Four Seasons Hotel Monaghan Town. Important items for discussion are the Ronnie Hawe Stages Rally 2026, Compulsory Competitor Marshalling, Rule Changes and member questions and discussion.

The Co. Monaghan Motor Club Annual awards night will take place in The Four Seasons Hotel on Sunday the 26th of October at 8pm. Tickets can be purchased from Committee members or through the Co. Monaghan Motor Club App. Michael Carbin is the winner if the 2024/25 overall club (Traders) championship. Michael finished the six round championship on a total of 07.2 points, 11.2 points better off than Andrew Mackarel who finished in 2^nd place. 3^rd place went to Aaron McElroy. In the Gary Nesbitt Club Navigation Championship, the outright winners were Conor Mohan and Michael Carbin. 2^nd place went to Evin Hughes/Pakie Duffy and 3^rd place went to Aaron McElroy/Declan Tynan. In the Beginner class, it was Darren Lavery/Aaron McGorman 1^st, Elijah Dixon/Abraham Dixon 2^nd and Dermot Mallon/Michael Conlon 3^rd. In the Novice class it was Ben Mohan/Damien Hagan 1^st, Adam Jordan/Aaron Dixon 2^nd and Eoghán Farrell/Peter Farrell 3^rd. In the Semi-Expert class, it was Adam Langan/Martin Swinburne 1^st, Gretchen Swinburne/Shane Maguire 2^nd and Molly Maguire/Cathal McGlone 3^rd. In the Expert class, it was Gregory Shinnors/Andrew Mackarel 1^st, Conor Boylan/Derek Mackarel 2^nd and Christopher McMahon/Martin Tynan 3^rd.

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