Meath man Pat Donegan took his Escort to a brilliant win on last Sunday's high profile Meteor Elecrical Titanic Rallysprint, with Niall McShea 2^nd, Gwyndaf Evans 3^rd, Charlie and Eugene Donnelly 4^th and 5^th, all in various Escorts.

Ray Breen took his Focus WRC to a start to finish victory on last weekend's Laois Stages Rally. This was a major and maiden victory for the popular Waterford based businessman, who scored fastest on 7 of the 8 stages.

National Champion Niall Maguire, utilising the Laois event as a warm up for the start of the Dunlop backed series in Mayo next weekend, was 2^nd in his Impreza WRC. West Cork man Liam McCarthy, also in a Subaru, was 3^rd. Alan Ring won GpN very convincingly in his Impreza N11.

Philip Morrow's supporters were devastated when he was excluded from 1^st GpN on last weekend's Sunseeker, after a fabulous battle with Stuart Jones. It transpired that the intercooler on Morrow's machine, which had been in the car since he bought it two years ago, was not the correct one, although it would have given no performance gain. In an act of true sportsmanship, Stuart and his father 'Mad Mick' gave Morrow their £500 parts voucher prize from Mitsubishi to help him obtain the correct parts.

Emma McKinstry makes her 2^nd competitive appearance in her recently acquired GpN Lancer at this Saturday's Bishopscourt stage event, round 2 of the NI Championship. On the series opener at Kirkistown 2 weeks ago, the Banbridge girl was 2^nd in GpN and running in the top 10 early on in the event, to eventually finish 18^th o/a, 5^th in GpN.

Current overall NI champion Kevin Lynch in his Impreza WRC will be defending his position at Bishopscourt following his 1^st round win at Kirkistown, from Cathal Arthurs (Hyundai WRC).

Kieran Graffin borrowed Garry Jenning's GpN Lancer and duly won last Saturday's Aghadowey stage rally, from Seamus Donnelly, also in a GpN Lancer.

Seamus O'Grady, co-driven by Barry Sheridan, won round 5 of the Irish 205 Challenge through the snow of Sweet Lamb last weekend. The final round of the series is this Sunday on the Willie Loughman forestry event at Carrick on Suir. O'Grady or Graeme Colfer can take the title.

Gareth McHale, with Paul Nagle co-driving the 'family' Corolla WRC, is set to mount a challenge on the Irish forestry Championship, starting with this weekend's Wm Loughman event. 24 year old Gareth's 7^th o/a on the recent Galway Tarmac Championship opener gave ample notice that he can certainly handle a WRC machine. Tom Hogan Motors and Garyarron Homes are providing the backing.

Kevin O'Kane is the No.1 seed for the Willie Loughman Forest Rally in his Impreza WRC, with Glen Allen at No.2, Pat Norris at 3, John McCarthy at 4, Dermot Kelly 5 and James Murphy at 6. Gareth MacHale is seeded at 7 with the first of the Group N cars, Stephen Moore in his Impreza at 8.

Regards, Brian Patterson.