Clerk of the Course Barry O’Sullivan assisted by Brian O’Mahony organised this event based out of the Skibbereen Mart.
County Monaghan driver Andrew Mackarel alongside his Co. Cork navigator Denis O’Donovan were the overall winners of the 100 Isles Navigation Trial last weekend.
Current national navigation championship leaders, and Monaghan Motor Club CLG members Evin Hughes and Pakie Duffy finished the event in 2nd place and took the Expert class win.
Ray and Stephen O’Neill finished in 5th place and took the Semi-Expert class win by a considerable margin.
Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG and Skibbereen & DCC member Ruaidhri Nash navigated Brian Oakes to 10th overall, a result that claimed them the Barnett trophy for being the top finishing Skibbereen and District Car Club member crew.
The Co. Monaghan Motor Club Autotest event is fast approaching.
Please note the recent change to the rules and regulations to encourage more youth entrants.
The Autotest event will take place on Sunday February 22nd. Membership for Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG 2026 can be purchased on the club’s app. Just search Co. Monaghan Motor Club on your smart phones app store to download the app.
The opening round of the 2026 NAPA Auto Parts Irish Tarmac Rally Championship took place last weekend.
County Galway Motor Club CLG organised the two-day Galway International Rally on Saturday and Sunday.
Co Derry ace Callum Devine and his Co. Kerry navigator Noel O’Sullivan took a start to finish victory, taking the win by 37.1 seconds over Eddie Doherty/ Tom Murphy who were using a similar Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 to that of Devine.
Josh Moffett and Andy Hayes debuted their new Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 on the event.
They were in 4th place overall after the penultimate special stage, but set a fastest stage time on the final Windfield test to move into 3rd at the expense of David Kelly/Shane Buckley.
Cathan McCourt/Barry McNulty took their Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 home in 12th place overall.
Paul McPhillips guided Cian Caldwell to 14th overall and 1st in Class RC3.
Killian McArdle guided Michael Cahill to 15th overall and 1st in Class 14.
and Paul Maguire made it three in a row for Co. Monaghan motor club members, by taking their Citroën C3 Rally2 home in 16th overall and 2nd in Class 24.
John McQuaid and Thomas Treanor took their Ford Escort MkII to 19th overall and 3rd in Class 14.
James McCarville and Arthur Kierans finished right behind them in 20th overall and 1st in Class 13.
Jack Maguire and Keith McConnon finished 28th overall and 1st in Class 11F using their Honda Civic.
Daniel McConnon guided Gavin McGivney to 31st overall and 4th in Class 13.
Nigel Brennan/Mark Sheridan took their Honda Civic home in 35th overall and 4th in Class 11F.
Andrew Mackarel/Richard Cassidy took their beautiful Opel Ascona to 47th overall and 7th in Class 13.
Unfortunately, Conor Mohan navigating for Eamonn Kelly retired on special stage 2
Enda Sherry navigating for Darren Gass retired after special stage 5.
The National Navigation Trial Championship continues this weekend with the Skibbereen and District Car Club ‘100 Isles Navigation Trial’. Regulations and Entry are available now.
The Co. Monaghan Motor Club Autotest event is fast approaching. Please note the recent change to the rules and regulations to encourage more youth entrants.
The Autotest event will take place on Sunday February 22nd.
Jack Treanor was rallying at Shackleton Barracks, Ballykelly Co. Derry recently. Jack took his Škoda Citigo to 5th place out of a total of fourteen in his class.
Membership for Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG 2026 can be purchased on the club’s app. Just search Co. Monaghan Motor Club in your smart phones app store to download the app.
Cork Motor Club hosted the latest round of the 2025/26 National Navigation Championship last weekend.
Clerk of the Course Nial Murphy assisted by Barry Attridge organised the 1000 Shakes Navigation Trial, a mammoth 120-mile event based in the Inchigeelage area.
Three Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG members took part in this demanding event, the event that marked the start of the second half of the season.
Current national championship leaders Evin Hughes and Pakie Duffy were seeded car 4 on the road.
Their seed for the event matched their finishing position, as they took 4th overall and 3rd in the Expert class.
Ruaidhri Nash was navigating for Brian Oakes and was seeded car 7 on the night.
Just like Hughes/Duffy, their finishing position matched their seed on the night. Ruaidhri told me after the event that all was going quite well for him. That was until he did the one thing that Bishop Brennan kindly asked Fr Crilly, McGuire and Hackett not to make of their The Passion of Saint Tibulus protest.
The 1000 Shakes event was won by Aaron O’Regan and Derek Butler using a Subaru Impreza.
The national navigation championship will continue with Skibbereen and District Car Club’s 100 Isles Navigation Trial on February 7th/8th.
The Irish Tarmac Rally Championship begins this weekend with the Galway International Rally.
There is a large number of Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG members taking part. Josh Moffett has made the switch to a brand-new Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 for this year’s championship. Josh and his navigator Andy Hayes are seeded Car 6 on this opening round.
Membership for Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG 2026 can be purchased on the club’s app. Just search Co. Monaghan Motor Club in your smart phones app store to download the app.
The navigation trial season resumed on Saturday night last with Co. Monaghan motor club’s January Navigation Trial.
The January Navigation Trial was based out of the Drumhowan Community Centre and organised by Aaron Dixon and Adam Jordan.
The event counted as Round 2 of the 2025/26 Club Navigation and Overall Club Championship.
The navigation began with a brace of checkpoints around Agheralane before moving toward Kilkit. The first Supplementary Route Instruction (SRI) was received at Time Point 6 (Tp6) to help competitors locate Tp7. This curved herringbone tulip diagram brought competitors to the checkpoint located at a house along the R162. Once here competitors received a further SRI to reveal the location of Via 2 and Tp8. This cumulative distance curved tulip diagram took competitors into the Dixon farm for the Via located along the slatted shed and to the Tp located on the public road at the farm exit. The penultimate SRI was received at Tp22 to reveal the location of Via 4 and Tp23. This circular herringbone tulip diagram brought competitors along farm lanes in Bowelk for both checkpoints. The final SRI was received here for the location of Tp24 back in the Dixon farm. The final SRI was in the form of an intermediate distance Box-Tulip Diagram, but with the box’s out of sequence.
Navigators had to make sure and work out which direction change was up next quickly due to the short distance between each box. It was quite easy to go past the intended direction change and receive a Wrong-Approach mark or fail to locate the Tp altogether.
When the results team were finished calculating the competitors time cards, it was the Dixon brothers of Elijah and Abraham Dixon that had taken the event win with four marks,
two marks the better of Isaiah and David Dixon.
Conor Boylan/Derek Mackarel finished in 3rd place on 10 marks.
In the Beginner class it was 1st Larah Connolly/Justin Smyth,
2nd Jake Mahony/Gary Gallagher and 3rd Damien Sheridan/Ray O’Neill.
In the Novice class it was 1st Darren Lavery/Aaron McGorman, 2nd Conor Lappin/Nathan Mohan and 3rd Keith Sheridan/James Logue.
In the Semi-Expert class, it was 1st Isaiah Dixon/David Dixon, 2nd Sean Marron/Aidan Keenan and 3rd Ben Mohan/Damien Hagan.
In the Expert class, it was 1st Conor Boylan/Derek Mackarel,
2nd Evin Hughes/Pakie Duffy
3rd David McCrudden/Peter Deery.
When the awards were presented to all the winners on the night, Aaron and Adam thanked all the residents and landowners along the route for their cooperation in allowing the event to take place and use their property.
9th Adam Langan/Michael Conlon (Subaru Impreza) 29m,
10th Darren Lavery/Aaron McGorman (Subaru Impreza) 32m.
2026 membership for The Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG is available on the motor club App. Just search County Monaghan Motor Club on your mobile phone’s app store to download.
Combilift Rally Team finished a one two on the Cork Motor Club Boggeragh RallySprint, which took place on Monday last.
The Boggeragh RallySprint took place on a five-and-a-half-kilometre gravel stage located in the Boggeragh Windfarm.
The Moffett brothers of Sam and Josh each took turns duel-driving the Hyundai i20 R5 in Class 5B, and also dual-drove a Ford Escort 6R4.
After the events four timed runs, Josh Moffett/Gavin J Downey took a 20.4s win over Josh’s elder brother Sam navigated by James O’Reilly who finished in 2nd place.
Another Co. Monaghan Motor Club member Gregory Shinnors navigated James Dunphy to 3rd overall in a Ford Fiesta R5. When driving the 6R4, Josh and Sam only attempted three out of the four timed runs and finished 67th and 70th overall respectively.
Co. Cavan Motor Club held a Loose Surface Autocross last weekend in their Latton Hut Cross venue.
Jack Maguire took his Honda Civic to 3rd overall in the car category and 1st in Class 4.
Nigel Brennan was also competing in the car category and took his Honda Civic to 13th overall and 8th in Class 4.
The Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG have opened their motor club membership for 2026. Membership is available on the Co. Monaghan Motor Club CLG website, Facebook and the Co. Monaghan Motor Club App. To get the App, just search County Monaghan Motor Club on your mobile phone’s app store and download. Please note that 2025 motor club members must become club members for 2026 before the Gary Nesbitt club navigation championship and overall club Trader’s championship resume with the January navigation trial (Jan 10th) if they wish to score points on this event. Failure to become a member before the event, the competitor will forfeit any points that they would have received on the event. Regulations and entry form will be published very soon.
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