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Winter is such an odd time. All the glory and success of the last year is parked in a corner, cars are rolled into garages, spanners earn their keep and generally everyone presses a big reset button. As the days shorten to nothing more than a quick blast of sunlight and the roads descend into a grimy hell, plans are a-brewing. year is the very same. Be it tinkering with new parts, dealing in new cars or even deciding on which events & championships to attack, the rally community keeps ticking over at a ferocious paces. Rumours swirl of who...

For many the thought of owning a fast road car or track car is a distant dream. We simply don't have the means to spend thousands of euros per year for a few days of track time and don't have the discipline to spend hour after hour in a cold shed inevitably fixing what we broke at the last trackday. As if that wasn't a big enough barrier to motorsport, in this country we only have one real race track (Mondello) if you don't count karting tracks and for the majority of people, it takes hours to get there and...

Things happen in Ireland happen every day of the week that we never hear of. Events slip by without a single sliver of coverage, yet enjoyed immensely by those involved. It's an Irish thing, and any bit of driving around the country you’ll find plenty of signs and posters for a plethora of oddball gatherings. But how is it that there are events going on nearly every weekend, all over the Island, attracting thousands of enthusiastic followers and competitors willing to rack up huge costs in expensive cars solely in search of excitement, yet most have never heard of it??...