As plans are finalised for the McCafferty’s Bars-supported Donegal Forestry Rally, scheduled for Sunday, February 16th, the organizing team is preparing for an exciting kickoff to the Sligo Pallets Irish Forestry Championship.

The 2025 Dacia Sandero Challenge Cup is now open for registration through a new dedicated website. Drivers and navigators can purchase their championship entry through the new online portal. The new website also hosts the championship calendar and regulations, with space provided for posting event results and upcoming news.

Aoife Raftery, Ireland's leading female rally driver, has been appointed as the Women in Motorsport Ambassador for the Corrib Oil Galway International Rally, scheduled for February 1 and 2.

An emotional tribute was paid to the late Katie Quinn at the Top Part West Coast Rally Championship Awards in Loughrea, County Galway on Saturday night.

Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy driver Josh McErlean starts his first season in the World Rally Championship top-flight at Rallye Monte Carlo next weekend.

Saibh Watkins, aged 10, has just started competing in sporting car trials as a Junior Junior!  

A weekend long battle between Frank Meagher and Austin McHale went all the way on the 1995 Irish Tarmac Rally Championship opener, with the balance tipping in Frank's favour on the final stage. It was to be the start of the most successful season of the Tipperary driver's career.

There will be three Pinnacle Motorsport cars on the grid when the 2025 Formula 4 Middle East Championship gets underway this weekend. The Motorsport Ireland-licensed team confirms Wang Yuzhe, Kyuho Lee, and Yuta Suzuki for its lineup at the Yas Marina Circuit.

Throughout 2024 the Motorsport Ireland Women in Motorsport Commission highlighted some of the remarkable women in motorsport across the country on social media and through the Motorsport Ireland Monthly Bulletins and articles on the website. Below is a snapshot of some of the great stories that we shared, and we look forward to engaging with many more in 2025!

The brainchild of Alec Poole and Fred Gallagher, the Tour Brittania was born as a recreation of the old Tour of Britain which was a mixture of rallying and circuit racing.

RPM travelled to Birmingham for the Autosport International Show to get all the latest gossip ahead of the 1995 season. Their cameras also visited Prodrive to see what goes on behind the scenes while a number of Irish Tarmac Rally Champioship hopefuls shook their cars down at Mondello Park ahead of the Galway International Rally.

Alister McRae and Freddy Loix were the guest stars for the Punchestown Rally Experience in 2004. Celebrities like Ken Doherty, Brian O'Driscoll and Shane Horgan got passenger runs in the hot seat while the event ran a novel super special format and at the end of the day it was Andrew Nesbitt who emerged victorious.

Hanna Celsie proved she was on the pace to comfortably qualify at the Dubai Autodrome race circuit for next May’s FW Nations Cup finale.

After a year of development, working closely with Irish-based Ignite Software, Motorsport Ireland is proud to unveil our new digital licence system to cater for the growing needs of our community.

Motorsport Ireland Rally Academy driver Josh McErlean will join the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team in 2025, driving a Ford Puma Rally1 in the FIA World Rally Championship, Co-driven by fellow Academy member Eoin Treacy.

A trio of Group A Subaru Imprezas battled it out on this event with Derek McGarrity having to contend with the recently crowned British National Rally Champion Kenny McKinstry and former Belgian and European Rally Champion, Patrick Snijers. McKinstry proved unstoppable, taking a comfortable win ahead of McGarrity as Snijers slipped off the road. A third place finish for Denis Biggerstaff was enough to secure the 1999 Northern Ireland Rally Championship in his Metro 6R4.