May 5 2026

The Irish Tarmac Rally Championship continued last weekend with the Access Ireland Rally of the Lakes 2026.

The two-day Killarney based international rally began on Saturday with eight special-stages, starting with the first of three passes of ‘Molls Gap’ over the weekend. Six special-stages on Sunday in the vicinity of Carrauntoohil brought the event to a finish.

There was a Škoda podium lockout at the conclusion of the event as the victors Callum Devine/Noel O’Sullivan Jnr, 2^nd placed Eddie Doherty/Tom Murphy and 3^rd placed David Kelly/Shane Buckley were all using Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 cars.

County Monaghan man Josh Moffett navigated by Andy Hayes took their Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 home in 4^th place overall and 1^st in class RC2.

5^th, 6^th and 7^th place were again all using a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2. Once again, it took a Monaghan person to end the Škoda three in a row

Conor Mohan navigating for Eamonn Kelly finished 8^th overall using a similar GR Yaris to that of Josh Moffett.

9^th overall again went to a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2. The first non Škoda or Toyota was Keelan Grogan/Ayrton Sherlock who finished in 10^th place onboard a Ford Fiesta Rally2.

Andrew Mackarel and Richard Cassidy were out in their Opel Ascona and finished 71^st overall and 10^th in class 13.

Jack Casey and Ciara Duggan driving a VW Polo R5 retired after SS12 while in 27^th place overall.

The Campbell Contracts May Day Stages Rally took place on Bank holiday Monday at St Angelo Airport Enniskillen. In this event Damien Connolly navigated Peadar Hurson to 9^th overall in their VW Polo R5 and Gary McCrudden guided Paidi Hamill to 26^th overall and 6^th in class 6.

Brendan Treanor and Garry Farrelly made their eagerly awaited return at the event and took their Ford Escort MkII to 62^nd overall and 11^th in class 8.

Oisín Sherlock.