Moffett Wins in Clonakilty

Josh Moffett and Andy Hayes took a start to finish victory on last weekend’s Clonakilty Park Hotel West Cork Rally 2026.

Josh and Andy took their Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 to a 9.9s win over Callum Devine/Noel O’Sullivan jnr who were competing in a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2.

Killian McArdle navigated Joseph Kelly to 14^th overall in their Toyota GR Yaris Rally2.

Michael Carbin and Conor Mohan took their Ford Escort MKII home in 15^th overall and 3^rd in class 14.

Nigel Brennan/Mark Sheridan finished 61^st overall and 4^th in class 11F in their Honda Civic VTi.

Andrew Mackarel/Richard Cassidy took their Opel Ascona home in 84^th overall.

Unfortunately, Paul Barrett/Darragh Kelly retired on SS9

James McCarville/Damien Doherty retired after SS12.

Ryan Farrell navigating for Johnnie Mulholland retired after SS13

Cathan McCourt/Barry McNulty retired after SS14.

In the land down under, Macartan Kierans was navigating for Kilkenny man Richie Dalton in the Rally of Bathurst.

On this 170km gravel event, consisting of 11 special stages Richie and Mac took their Toyota GR Yaris AP4 home in 2^nd place overall, but were the 1^st New South Wales crew home.

They had been in 1^st place overall until they had a high-speed off-road excursion on SS4, which dropped them 10/15s and dropped them into 2^nd place.

It must be noted that despite the high speed off (181kmph) Mac didn’t get flustered and immediately began instructing Richie how to get the car corrected and back onto the stage. Once back onto the stage, it was immediately back onto the notes, as if nothing had happened.

 The final navigation trial of the season will be hosted by Donegal Motor Club this Saturday night. The event will be the final round of the 2025/26 Squealing Pig Monaghan Border Navigation Championship.

Regulations and entry are now published and available for the 2026 Four Seasons Hotel Ronnie Hawe Monaghan Stages Rally.

Treanor and team have picked three demanding stages in the north Monaghan region. The event will take place on Sunday April 12th. The official launch of the event will take place on Friday the 20^th of March in the Four Seasons Hotel Monaghan at 8pm. This is your chance to get up and personal with some of the local cars and hear from some of the local competitors too. Don’t miss out on our launch night competition. 1^st prize is a free entry to the event, 2^nd is a voucher for pacenotes and 3^rd prize is a voucher toward an in-car camera hire. Tickets can be purchased on the County Monaghan Motor Club App. To download the app, just search County Monaghan Motor Club on your mobile phones’ app store.

Oisín Sherlock