Bushwhacker Delivers a Classic Battle!

Omagh MC were the organisers of the Bushwhacker Rally last month. With 10 short-but-fast gravel stages run twice in the Co.Tyrone forests, the event attracted a huge entry of 111 starters (32 in Rally2/R5 cars). The legendary rally, known locally as the “Tyrone Grand Prix”, was a counting round of three 2026 championships: Round 3 of the NI Forest Rally Challenge, round six of the Irish Forest Rally Championship and the fifth and final round of the Nissan Micra Challenge.

My job was to cover start radio on two stages in the Killeter Forest complex of West Tyrone. SS2/7 Glenderg was only 4 miles long, but still a classic smooth and very fast Bushwhacker test. Both of our stages ran almost to schedule and without any stoppages. On the first run we had 107 starters. The weather was mixed, heavy rain to start with followed by dry conditions and sunshine in the afternoon. By the time the cars returned for stage seven, 95 remained.

Josh Moffett and Andy Hayes in their ever-reliable-now-aging Hyundai i20 R5 won the 2026 Bushwhacker Rally by just 04.6 seconds from Mark Donnelly/Martin Brady in one of ELEVEN latest Skoda Fabia RS Rally2’s to start the event. Third place went to a similar car crewed by Jordan and Paul Hone, 09.4 seconds back. Best 2WD crew were Paddy McToal/Connor O’Loan who’s Mk2 Escort finished way down in 14th place!

Mark Donnelly led after the first two stages, but then, the winners for the past five years, brothers Patrick and Stephen O’Brien in their older Skoda Fabia R5 went in front for the following six tests. On the penultimate stage nine, Lough Bradan, O’Brien spun and Josh Moffett found himself in front by half-a-second. Moffett then managed to hold off a hard charging Mark Donnelly on the final 4.45 mile stage at Glengawna, to claim his second Bushwhacker victory. The O’Brien’s dropped from second to fourth on stage ten, but were later excluded from the results at the finish of the event.

Regarding the various gravel championships: Josh Moffett took maximum points in the Irish Forest series and leads that with two rounds to come. Mark Donnelly was top of the NI Forest Challenge contenders. He has 61 points, but David Condell, who finished 9th on the Bushwhacker, leads with 76 points going into the final round, the Dogleap Rally later this month. Jamie McLaughlin won the 2026 Nissan Micra Challenge of which the Bushwhacker was the final round.

Incidentally, Josh Moffett won the 2026 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship just a week after the Bushwhacker. He and Andy Hayes switched back to their Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 and finished second to the Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 of Eddie Doherty on the Cork 20 Rally which was enough to secure another title.

Great to see current Northern Ireland Rally Champions, Jonny Greer and Niall Burns, contest the Bushwhacker for the first time in the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2. The pair had a few issues on leg one, but overcame them to eventually finish 7th overall. A few weeks earlier they finished a brilliant 3rd on the Lakeland Stages gravel rally. Currently Jonny is fifth in the Forest Challenge standings.

Terry Harryman

Northern Ireland lost one of its rally heroes last month. Bangor resident, Terry Harryman pasted away at the age of 87. Perhaps Terry was best remembered as co-driver to former World Rally Champion, Ari Vatanen, whom he partnered for many years back in the eighties. Just watch the classic video of them in an Opel Manta on the 1983 Manx Rally. Ari got a puncture and charged on at full speed through a narrow cattle grid, Terry, calling the pace notes, famously shouts “Dear God” as they almost hit a wall but survived and carried on!

Vatanen and Harryman won six rounds of the WRC including the 1985 Monte Carlo Rally in the ultra fast Peugeot 205 T16. They were leading the world championship that year until a horrific accident in Argentina almost killed Ari and resulted in Terry braking his back. Remarkably, Harryman recovered within three months and he would go on to win the 1986 German Rally Championship with Michelle Mouton in a Peugeot.

Ari Vatanen was among the many who attended a celebration of Terry Harryman’s life in Bangor following his passing. My huge condolences to his son Allan-himself a decorated co-driver-and all the family circle at this sad time.

Evans Has One Hand on World Title

The “Little Welsh Wizard” Elfyn Evans and co-driver Scott Martin should claim the 2026 World Rally Championship on Rally Italia in Sardinia this coming weekend (2-4 October) The Toyota Yaris Rally1 pair are 17 points ahead of teammate Sami Pajari and 21 ahead of other teammate Oliver Solberg. Only a “very bad” result on this the final round of the championship would deny Evans success. Rally Italia became the final round of the 2026 World Championship because the Saudi Arabia event, due to take place in November, was cancelled for obvious reasons. Surprisingly, no replacement event was organised.

Runner-up five times, Elfyn Evans would be the first British World Rally Champion since Englishman Richard Burns sealed the title way back in 2001! Of course before that, the legendary Colin McRae won for Scotland and became the first Brit to win the World Rally Championship in 1995.

The 2027 WRC is to be televised live on the BBC for the first time since 2001. Most of the coverage will be on BBC iPLAYER. Apparently 5 stages from all rounds plus the final powerstage will be shown live on this format. Rally Scotland, due to take place in the Autumn, will receive extensive coverage across all four days on the free-to-air network. More details to follow once the 2027 calendar is announced. The new cars and rules for next year have yet to be finalised!

Rally Diary

Sat. 17th October
Dogleap Rally

• Round 4…Brown & Brown Motorsport UK NI Forest Rally Challenge
• Round 8…Trailer Parts & Spares Irish Forest Rally Championship

Organisers Maiden City MC have secured sponsorship once again from Premier Car Parts. The Dogleap is the final round of both the above championships. There are eight gravel stages (four run twice) in Co.Derry.

We will be covering radio, rescue and stage marshalling on this our final stage rally of the year. Sign-on via rallyscore.net.

Greer Wins Battle of Loughgall

Jonny Greer & Niall Burns (pictured below) may have led the Loughgall Stages Rally from start to finish, but my goodness they had to work hard for the victory! Going into the final stage, the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 pairing were LESS THAN A SECOND in front of a hard charging Sam Moffett/Pierce O’Callaghan in their Hyundai i20 Rally2. By the end of that 5-mile Springhill test, Greer had won the rally by 4.1seconds from Moffett. Niall McGonigle was third. The VW Polo GTI R5 Strabane man and co-driver Caolan McKenna survived an high speed spin early in the event to finish 17.3 seconds behind the Hyundai. Best 2WD finishers were Barry

Morris/Denver Rafferty who were sixth in their Darrian T90 GTR+.

North Armagh Motor Club were the organisers of this the third round of the 2026 Brown & Brown MSUK Northern Ireland Rally Championship. Based In Loughgall Country Park, the rally consisted of six closed-road stages (two tests run three times) SS1/3/5 Callan River was eight miles long while SS2/4/6 Springhill finished in the Country Park at the end of a 5.06 mile run. 91 cars started (19 Rally2/R5) and 74 finished.

I was on start radio for the three Springhill stages. Despite set up delays to begin with, everything ran smoothly and by the third run we were back on schedule. Other club members were involved in timekeeping, radio cover and stage marshalling on what turned out to be a very wet Saturday 4th July in County Armagh.

Another Donegal Tragedy

As I am sure you are all well aware by now, there was a tragic accident on the 2026 Donegal International Rally. Unfortunately a 15-year-old schoolboy lost his life and two other spectators were injured when they were struck by a competing car which left the road during stage 12 at Gartan on day two, the afternoon of Saturday 20th June. The car involved was the second competitor to start the 8-mile stage, the Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 of Callum Devine and his co-driver Noel O’Sullivan. A full investigation into the incident has been launched by Motorsport Ireland and the Garda Siochana (national police).

With their rally once again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, the organisers, Donegal Motor Club, must learn lessons from this tragic incident and try to ensure that it cannot happen again.

The three-day Donegal International Rally, the biggest and most popular closed-road special stage rally in Ireland, is perhaps a victim of its own success. Huge crowds lined the stages this year due to the perfect summer weather. It is almost impossible to control such large numbers of spectators. Stage marshals can only do their best and cannot cover all the vantage points. With competing cars now so fast and running at 30 second intervals, everyone on the stages, marshals and spectators, have to be vigilant at all times, there is no room for complacency.

Sadly, it’s not the first time that a fatal accident has occurred on the Donegal International Rally. If the event is to survive into the future, corrective steps must taken. Dedicated spectator areas could be introduced, with the organisers limiting the numbers by charging entry to all stages (such as was introduced on WRC Rally GB in the past). I do realise that this may be extremely difficult to enforce!

The remaining 8 stages of the 2026 Donegal Rally were cancelled following the fatal accident on SS12. Northern Ireland drivers finished 1-2-3: Winners were Kris Meeke and Liam Regan in their Toyota GR Yaris Rally2. Josh McErlean/Eoin Treacy finished second in their Ford Fiesta Rally2 while Philip Allen/Craig Drew were third in another Toyota GR Yaris Rally2. Altogether 165 cars started the rally, 42 of them were top class Rally2/R5 machines.

I wish to offer my condolences to the family and friends of the young boy, Tadhg Callaghan Carter, who was killed in the incident. Best wishes to those who were injured and I hope they fully recover. My thoughts are with Calum Devine and Noel O’Sullivan plus all the medical and rescue services, officials and marshals who were involved.

LOOKING BACK

Marshalling Memories

40 YEARS AGO

I was timekeeping on the 1986 Donegal International Rally with David Corbett and Greg Earl. Billy Coleman and Ronan Morgan won the rally first time out in a Rothmans MG Metro 6R4. We covered starts and finishes on stages like Kindrum

Lake & Atlantic Drive. Vincent Bonner crashed on the finish line of SS2, when I was timing, but he carried on and would eventually finish seventh. James Cullen was second in a Nissan 240RS while Cyril Boulton took third place in another Metro 6R4. John Lyons was magnificent in a little Honda Civic, finishing a superb eighth overall!

30 YEARS AGO

Dennis Biggerstaff won the 1996 Ulster Rallycross GP at Nutts Corner. The Dromara driver borrowed an engine for his final rallycross in his British Championship winning MG Metro 6R4 and dominated the Larne MC event.

20 YEARS AGO

There was “Metro Boy Magic” on the 2006 Donegal Rally. Colin McRae and Nicky Grist were competing in the National section of the rally in a hired MG Metro 6R4. The 1995 World Champion won the National Rally hands down in the amazing 20-year-old machine. Had McRae been challenging for overall honours he would have finished in eighth place!

Andrew Nesbitt won the 2006 Donegal International Rally in his ultimate 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer WRC and his teammate Mark Higgins was second in a similar car. The rally was celebrating its 35th anniversary and an Irish record of 23 World Rally Cars took part. We were timekeeping (mostly in the rain) for all three days of the event. You can watch this event and other old RPM produced Donegal Rallies on Motorsport Ireland’s YouTube channel at anytime.

10 YEARS AGO

Ray, Ross and myself were stage finish timekeepers on the three days of the 2016 Donegal International Rally, including the “rally-deciding” final stage. Star of the show was Keith Cronin in his little Citroen DS3 R5. He may have lost the rally win by just half-a-second to local ace, the late Manus Kelly in his “full fat” Subaru S12, but the Cork youngster gave his all. He and co-driver Mikie Galvin were nine seconds in front of the more powerful WRC car of Kelly and Donall Barrett starting the 20th and final stage at Fanad Head. Unfortunately the Citroen lost fuel pressure half way through the 9-mile test and try as he might the Cronin win was just not to be. A remarkable drive nonetheless! Scottish driver David Bogie won the National section from Frank Kelly, both were in Ford Escort Mk.2’s.

RALLY DIARY

SAT. 25th JULY
CARRYDUFF FORKLIFT RALLYE LECALE

• Round 4: Brown & Brown Motorsport UK Northern Ireland Rally Championship.

Organised by Ballynahinch & District Motor Club and based in Downpatrick. Four closed-road (repeated) stages in that area of Co.Down make up this new-for-2026 event. Going into this his local event, BADMC club member Jonny Greer leads the NI Championship by four points from Monaghan’s Sam Moffett. These two contenders were in a-class-of-their-own on the last round in Loughgall. A big entry is expected. BMMC (NI) will be covering rescue, stage marshalling and radio cover. Sign-on at rallyscore.net

FRI. 7th—SAT. 8th AUGUST
MODERN TYRES ULSTER RALLY

• Round 6:  Irish Tarmac Rally Championship
• Round 6:  FIA European Historic Rally Pre-2000 Rally Championship

Organised by the NI Motor Club. Rally HQ & Service Park are based at Ballymena Showgrounds in Co. Antrim. There are 12 closed-road stages totalling 100 miles. BMMC (NI) are providing support as usual including Rescue, Stage marshalling, timekeepers and radio cover. Francois Delacour is competing in the EHR Pre-2000 Championship in a Peugeot 306 Kit-Car so can expect to see the former French WRC star in Ballymena hi?

Jonny Greer is a Six-Time NI Champion

Victory on the first ever Carryduff Forklift Rallye Lecale last month was enough to secure a sixth MSUK Northern Ireland Rally Championship for Jonny Greer, with a round to spare. The Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 driver and co-driver Niall Burns (pictured above) won the Ballynahinch & District MC’s Downpatrick-based event by 54.1 seconds from the Hyundai i20 Rally2 of their nearest championship rivals Sam Moffett and Pierce O’Callaghan.

The rally consisted of eight closed-road stages, which would have been familiar to most competitors as versions of them were previously used over the past few years on the Down Rally. The new event attracted a starting list of 86 cars which included 28 Rally2/R5’s.

My job was start radio operator on SS3/7 Lougherne. Victor joined me for the day which was mostly fine although there were a few welcome rain showers after what had been a long dry spell. Both stages ran smoothly and without incident, despite an exceptionally long break of around three hours between them! Apparently the competitors loved all the stages. Other BMMC/BRMC club members were covering rescue, radio & timekeeping.

Cathan McCourt was fastest on stage one at Bucks Head and on the first run of Lougherne, but the Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 pilot crashed out on stage four while leading by just 0.1 of a second from Greer. Then Niall McGonigle in a similar Fabia took up the persuit of the flying Yaris, but he too crashed out on the final stage while some 26 seconds behind the eventual rally winner.

Jason Dickson/Neil Shanks were third overall in their Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 while best of the 2WD cars was the famous forty three-year-old (MSD 222W ex-George Robinson) Toyota Starlet of Richard Moffett and Martin Connolly (see photo) which finished in eleventh place behind ten class one 4WD machines. 

Including Jonny Greer, there were four Northern Ireland Rally Champions on the Lecale start list. Stuart Biggerstaff was 10th in his first outing with a VW Polo GTI R5 while Derek McGarrity finished 13th in a similar car. Unfortunately last year’s champion Aaron McLaughlin retired his Polo on SS6 with mechanical problems. Altogether 73 cars finished the event.

Rallye Lecale was a new and successful fourth round of the 2026 Northern Ireland Rally Championship, but some of the stages were far from the service base in Downpatrick and perhaps the organisers needed to think of this when planning for next year’s event.

Looking Back

Marshalling Memories

20 Years Ago

I attended three events during exceptionally good weather in July 2006. The Loughgall Country Park Rally featured a furious battle between two Mk.2 Escorts. Wesley Patterson led Camillus Bradley until the final stage when a spin by Patterson handed the win to Bradley. We covered various radio points on the North Armagh MC event.

The following weekend we were on mid-point radio at a single venue rally run by Lough Neagh Marshals Club over concrete lanes in a country estate at Moneyglass near Toombridge. Then there was the Bishopscourt Summer Clubman Stages event run by Ballynahinch & District MC. We were on timekeeping duties for all eight stages here.

10 Years Ago

Garry Jennings won the last ever Lurgan Park Rally in July 2016. Garry was driving a Subaru Impreza S12B WRC in which he and co-driver Michael Moran had won the popular County Armagh single-venue event for the previous three years. In fact the same car was driven to victory here by Kevin Lynch in 2008.

2016 had been my 36th year assisting North Armagh Motor Club on the Lurgan Park Rally, and my 20th year as Fire Officer. In its glory years the event attracted 10,000 paying spectators to the park. The rising cost of providing the required safety measures on the challenging narrow stages was the main reason for the Lurgan Park Rally ending in 2016. North Armagh MC now concentrate on running the successful Loughgall Stages Rally.

Rally Diary

Fri. 7th—Sat. 8th August
Modern Tyres 50th Ulster Rally

• Round 6…2026 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship
• Round 6…2026 FIA European Historic (Pre-2000) Rally Championship

Organised by the Northern Ireland Motor Club. Rally HQ & Service Park are based at Ballymena Showgrounds in Co.Antrim. There are 12 closed-road stages totalling 100 miles. BMMC (NI) are providing support as usual including rescue, stage marshalling, timekeepers and radio operators. There are 87 entries in the National Rally (Irish Tarmac Championship) but disappointingly only 7 (3 British 4 Irish) in the FIA European Historic (Pre-2000) section. A bit of a damp squib then! Josh Moffett in his Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 heads the National competitors followed by Eddie Doherty and Circuit of Ireland winner David Kelly, both in Skoda Fabia RS Rally2’s. New Northern Ireland Champion Jonny Greer is a late entry in his Toyota GR Yaris. On Friday there are six stages; two runs over Knockboy (9.32 miles) the classic Glendun (9.04) and Torr Head at 7.90 miles(the second of which finishes in darkness). Then on Saturday the itinerary includes three more tests run twice: Tardree (6.44 miles), Cairncastle (8.52) and Slemish (9.08 miles).

Sat. 22nd August
R Kings Down Rally

• Round 5…2026 Brown & Brown Motorsport UK Northern Ireland Rally Championship
• Round 6…2026 Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship

Organised by Rathfriland Motor Club. The R Kings Competitions Down Rally is based at the Boulevard, Banbridge with Rally HQ at the nearby Belmont Hotel. The closed-road event consists of eight special stages (two run three times, one run twice) totalling 61.40 miles including the classic Hamiltons Folly. We are providing rescue cover plus radio operators, timekeepers and stage marshals. With Jonny Greer having already secured the overall NI Championship other places are still up for grabs. Aled Wyn Morgans is the leading Protyre competitor in his Ford Fiesta Rally2. There are over 90 cars on the entry list.

Sat. 5th September
Lakeland Stages Rally

• Round 2…2026 Brown & Brown Northern Ireland Forest Rally Challenge
• Round 5…2026 Trailer Parts & Spares Irish Forest Rally Championship

Enniskillen Motor Club are the organisers of this event. There are 3 classic loose surface stages (run twice) in Lough Navar, Big Dog and Ballintempo forests. We will be assisting as usual with rescue, radio cover and stage marshalling.

Here’s Jonny!!

Twelve months ago Jonny Greer (above right) & Niall Burns (left) had a huge rally-ending accident on the second stage of the Race & Rally Stages @ Bishopscourt. Fast forward to the same event this year and, from stage 2 onwards, the pair totally dominated the opening round of the 2026 Brown & Brown MSUK Northern Ireland Rally Championship.

Driving the same Toyota Yaris Rally2, five-time champion Greer and co-driver Burns were fastest on six of the eight stages to win the rally by 8.5 seconds from the VW Polo GTI R5 of last year’s winners and current NI Champions Aaron McLaughlin & Darren Curran. The 2010 NI Champion, Stuart Biggerstaff, was third in his Ford Fiesta R5.

The record-holding eight-times Northern Ireland Champion, Derek McGarrity, was fastest out of the blocks on stage one in his new Hyundai i20 Rally2 but he dropped back to finish fifth behind the similar car of Sam Moffett, the 2017 Irish Tarmac Champion tackling the NI series for the first time.

Top 2-Wheel-Drive finishers were Joe Hegarty & David Turkington who were tenth in their Ford Escort Mk.2. Best of the seven Nissan Micra Challenge contenders were Philip White and Geraldine McBride in 35th place.

There were 76 starters (22 Rally2/R5 cars) and 56 finishers at Bishopscourt. The single-venue rally was organised by Ballynahinch & District MC and ran to schedule (starting at 9am and finishing before 4.30pm) without any major problems. I was part of the start timekeeping team for all stages, while other BMMC/BRMC members were covering time controls and stage marshalling. The weather was dry all day, for a change, but very very cold

The encouraging news is that all the leading crews who started round one have registered for the 2026 Northern Ireland Championship. Let’s hope they all enter the four remaining closed-road rallies! Could be an interesting year!

Incidentally; Jonny Greer’s Bishopscourt success was the first win anywhere in Ireland for the Toyota Yaris Rally2. Then just a week later, Josh Moffett took victory on the ITRC West Cork Rally in a similar car! How will they do on the Circuit of Ireland against the many Skoda’s? Although only Saturday’s stages counts for points, most NI Championship crews, including Greer, have entered for the full two days at Easter.

Taka & Aaron’s Safari Rally Win

Takamoto Katsuta (above right) and his Northern Ireland co-driver Aaron Johnston (on the left) won the Safari Rally in Kenya last month. This was the Japanese driver’s first WRC victory in 94 attempts. Taking advantage of the retirements of his more illustrious Toyota Yaris Rally1 teammates; Elfyn Evans, Oliver Solberg & Sebastien Ogier, Katsuta climbed from a lowly fourth position to inherit the rally lead on day three of the four-day marathon. He and Aaron held on to win by over a minute from the Hyundai i20 of Adrien Fourmaux. Sami Pajari was third in another Toyota Yaris. Katsuta was the first driver Japanese driver to win a WRC round since Kenjiro Shinozuka won the Ivory Coast Rally in 1992.

The 2026 Safari Rally was the toughest in years; the rough stages were very muddy following heavy rainfall in the area preceding and during the event. Only five of the ten rally1 cars that started on the Thursday completed the full four days. Those five included Northern Ireland’s Jon Armstrong, pictured below in his Ford Puma. Although he finished way back in 15th place, the M-Sport driver battled with various time consuming problems including punctures and a broken driveshaft. Josh McErlean in the other Puma retired from 15th position (one ahead of Armstrong) with engine problems after the third day.

Aaron Johnston, who hails from Fintona, was the third co-driver from Northern Ireland to win the Safari Rally. Terry Harryman from Bangor won in 1983 with Ari Vatanen driving an Opel Ascona 400 while Holywood man Fred Gallagher won the rally three times. In 1985 Juha Kankkunan & Gallagher were in a Toyota Celica and then in 1986 & 1990 Fred partnered Bjorn Waldegard to victory in another Celica.

Yet another co-driver from Northern Ireland, Allan Harryman (son of Terry), won the WRC3 category by over 50 minutes on this year’s Safari Rally with veteran Greek driver Georgios Vasilakis in their Ford Fiesta Rally3. Vasilakis also now tops the WRC Masters Cup standings. NEXT WRC ROUND: Croatia Rally April 9-12.

WRC Deal for Rally Scotland

As I predicted last month, the World Rally Championship is now almost certain to return to the British Isles (for the first time since 2019) next year. An all-new Rally Scotland should take its place on the WRC calendar in the Autumn of 2027; pending a successful Candidate Event, which will be held later this year. A three-year deal has been secured with WRC Promoter by Motorsport UK and backed by the Scottish Government. Based in north-east Scotland, with Rally HQ and an indoor service park in Aberdeen, the gravel event will use forest roads in the surrounding regions of Aberdeenshire and Moray. All I can say is, wrap up warm! It will be cold and wet!

The question is, where does all this leave Motorsport Ireland plans to resurrect Rally Ireland in the near future? With so many countries worldwide interested in joining the WRC, it’s hard to see how a second event in the British Isles would succeed. The only saving grace could be the fact that Rally Ireland would be a unique and challenging asphalt event, and that may appeal to WRC Promoter. Who knows?

Rally Diary

Fri. 3rd—Sat. 4th April
Circuit of Ireland Rally

• Round 3…2026 NAPA Auto Parts Irish Tarmac Rally Championship
• Round 2…2026 Brown & Brown Motorsport UK Ireland Rally Championship

Organised by the Ulster Automobile Club and sponsored by McKinney Competitions. The two-day short, sharp, circuit is based in Dungannon for the third year in succession. Both days count for the ITRC while NI Championship points are awarded on Saturday only. There are four stages on Friday and eight on Saturday. We are providing rescue, timekeepers, radio crews and stage marshals. 

All leading contenders for the 2026 ITRC have entered the Circuit of Ireland, including last year’s winner and current champion Calum Devine, in one of 9 Skoda Fabia RS Rally2’s on the 130 car entry list (see standings after West Cork below). William Creighton will start second on the road in his Citroen C3 in preparation for his ERC challenge which begins in Spain later this month. The longest COI stage is the 14.40 miles of Bantry Lough, run twice on Saturday. Full entry list and itinerary is available on the Sportity app. (passcode COI2026) All Officials and Marshals can sign-on remotely at rallyscore.net

Sun. 12th April
BMMC (NI) Marshals Training Day

Our annual Training Day will take place at the same venue as the past few years, Transport Training Services @ Nutts Corner. Organised by BMMC (NI) in collaboration with the NI Motorsport Marshalling Partnership. Sign-on 9am for a 9.30 start. Contact Rory O’Neill if you plan to attend.