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The Tour of the Sperrins Rally took place on Saturday last.

Ryan Farrell navigated Johnnie Mulholland to 17 th overall (OA) and 1 st in class 9.

The Carlow Stages Rally took place on Sunday and David Moffett/Martin Connolly were the
top Monaghan Motor Club finishers, taking their Toyota Starlet home in 9 th OA
and 2 nd in class 14.

Michael Carbin took his MKII Ford Escort to 11 th OA and 4 th class 14.

Killian McArdle guided Michael Cahill to 13 th OA and 5 th class 14 and
Richard Moffett/Darragh Kelly finished right behind them in 14 th OA and 6 th
class 14.

Arthur Kierans navigated Brendan Cumiskey to 20 th OA and 2 nd in
class 4.

Anthony Hand/David McCrudden finished 31 st OA and 2 nd in class 11R.
Martin McPhillips finished 45 th OA and 3 rd in class 11R in his Corolla.

Jack Maguire finished 52 nd OA in his Honda Civic.

Josh Moffett who was car 1 on the road had a troublesome event. He clipped a bank on Special Stage 1 (SS1), causing a spin before he retired after SS5. He did rejoin the event for the final three stages and finished 98 th OA.

Sam Moffett/James O’Reilly retired on SS3 while sitting 2 nd OA.

A third Moffett brother (Tommy) retired on SS7.

Conor Mohan navigating for Paul Barrett retired on SS2.

Monaghan Motor Club on top in Border Navigation Championship!

Ballinodeman Conor Mohan along with Clones man Martin Tynan were crowned
Squealing Pig Monaghan Border Navigation Trial Champions for the 2023/24
season.

Although not a competing crew together, they both did enough to claim an extremely hard fought championship victory. In fact, a tiebreak was required to establish the drivers champion as both Martin Tynan and StoneBridge man Derek Mackarel were tied on 52 points after the five rounds.
Luckily for Martin, he had claimed the overall victory on the final round in Donegal which allowed him the championship on rule 9.2 which counted the number of overall wins in the current championship. Martin’s one win to Dereks zero.

Longford man Shane Dalton finished 3 rd overall, just a single point in arrears (51).

Things were also very tight on the navigators side as Conor Mohan finished on 55 points with both David McCrudden and Conor Boylan finishing on 52 points.

In the novice class, Gretchen Swinburne finished 4 th navigator with Shane and Eoghan Farrell finishing 3 rd . Ciaran McGorman finished 2 nd Driver and Martin Swinburne/Aaron McGorman finished as class
winners and therefore were awarded the Charlie Adams perpetual cup.

The cup is awarded to the winning Novice pair in memory of the late Charlie Adams.

In the Semi-Expert class Eoghan Corr and Molly Maguire finished 3 rd .
Class winners were Declan Tynan and Aaron McElroy.

Ryan Treanor finished 3 rd in the Expert class, Pakie Duffy/Evin Hughes finished off 2 nd and Andrew
Mackarel/Greg Shinnors finished 1 st in the class.

Championship sponsor Raymond Aughey congratulated all the winners and thanked everyone for
turning out for an excellent prizegiving. He also announced that The Squealing Pig will remain as Sponsor for next seasons championship. Also announced for this year’s award winners were new jackets.
First to get awards on the night were all the Clerk of the Course’s for the tremendous events they organised. Every event during the season ran as planned and every single control/checkpoint was manned by marshals, something that does not go unnoticed by competitors.
-Oisín Sherlock

There were a couple of Monaghan Motor Club members competing in the
Assess Ireland Rally of the Lakes last weekend.

The event which was based out of the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney was the fourth round of the 2024 Samdec Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.

Arthur Kierans navigating for Brendan Cumiskey finished 23 rd OA and 1 st in class RC3.

Killian McArdle navigating for Joseph Kelly finished the two day event 29 th OA.

Border Navigation Prizegiving

The eagerly anticipated Squealing Pig Monaghan Border Navigation Trial
Championship prizegiving takes place this Friday night at 8:30pm.

The prizegiving is taking place in the venue of the main sponsor. Conor Mohan
finished first Navigator overall (OA) with David McCrudden finishing 2 nd and
Conor Boylan finishing 3 rd . In the driver’s section, Martin Tynan finished 1 st ,
Derek Mackarel finished 2 nd and Shane Dalton finished 3 rd . In the Expert class,
Greg Shinnors/Andy Mackarel finished 1 st with Evin Hughes/Pakie Duffy
finishing 2 nd and Ryan Treanor/Colin Duffy finishing 3 rd . Aaron McElroy/Declan
Tynan finished 1 st in the Semi-Expert class with Ciaran Coyle/Niall McDaid
finishing 2 nd and Molly Maguire/Eoghan Corr taking 3 rd . In the Novice class
Aaron McGorman/Martin Swinburne took 1 st , Anthony McDonald/Ciaran
McGorman finished 2 nd . 3 rd went to the brother pairing of Eoghan and Shane
Farrell. 4 th went to Gretchen Swinburne/Sean McConnell. 5 th in class went to
Eoin Quinn/Keith Sheridan and 6 th in class went to Damien Sheridan/Patrick
Masterson.

Round 3 of the Northern Ireland Rally Championship took place on Saturday last with the Eakin Bros Brian James Maiden City Stages Rally.

The event was won by Desi Henry/Shane Byrne in a Citroën C3 Rally2.

A number of Monaghan Motor Club members were involved which included Ryan Farrell navigating Johnnie Mulholland to 18^th overall (OA) in their Fiesta Rally3.

Killian McArdle navigated Michael Cahill to 21^st OA in a Ford Escort.

Damien Connolly on the notes for Peadar Hurson failed to finish the event after they were forced to retire their VW Polo R5.

There was only one Monaghan entrant in the Mayo Motorsport Club’s Loose Surface Autocross on Sunday. Clones man Martin Tynan finished the day in 4^th OA in his Mitsubishi Evo VIII.