1^st (2) Derek McGarrity/Chris Patterson (Impreza WRC) 59.19.7

2^nd (7) Andrew Nesbitt/James O'Brien (Impreza WRC) 1.00.32.3

3^rd (3) Eamonn Boland/Damien Morrissey (Impreza WRC) 1.00.40.9

4^th (1) Austin MacHale/Brian Murphy (Impreza WRC) 1.01.05.6

5^th (9) Maurice Gass/Geoffrey Orr (Impreza WRC) 1.01.44.5

6^th (8) Tim McNulty/Anthony Nestor (Impreza WRC) 1.02.46.8

7^th (11) Roy White/Greg Shinnors (Lancer N) 1.03.24.2

8^th (12) Dickie Curran/Anthony Donnelly (Lancer N) 1.04.00.9

9^th (10) Seamus Leonard/Paul McLaughlin (Impreza N) 1.04.25.9

10^th (17) Shaun Gallagher/Rory Kennedy (Lancer N) 1.04.01.2

The big news in from stage 10 Lough Bo is that Eugene Donnelly and co driver Paul Kiely have crashed the Envirocare Subaru heavily. Both are out of the car and displaying the OK board, reportedly the damage is fairly extensive. Following drivers such as Eamonn Boland and Andrew Nesbitt lost a few seconds slowing down to make absolutely sure that the crew were unhurt. Fastest through the stage was Derek McGarrity, Andrew Nesbitt was just over a second slower, next up was Austin MacHale, but he was nearly 20s back on the leader. Derek reported no problems, Nesbitt was a wee bit worried about his brakes. Further down the list, Maurice Gass had another stall at stage start and lost a few seconds. Tim McNulty had a big spin and there was front end damage, but Tim was a lot happier than earlier, the mechanics had changed his Impreza suspension and he said it was "fantastic".

In Group N Seamus Leonard was fastest, just half a second up on Roy White, Shaun Gallagher was a further 3s back, Dickie Curran a further 9 back. Roy reckons he lost maybe 5s slowing at Eugene’s accident. Seamus Leonard had his turbo problems sorted, it turns out it was a pipe had come adrift, Seamus commenting "We’ve a lot of work to do to catch Roy". Still on the gpN theme….Tony Kearns was way back in the twenties overnight. He has changed to different tyres and jumped to 14^th after 2 stages this morning. Aaron MacHale has also speeded up and he has jumped from the twenties to 15^th.

Willie John Dolan has retired his gpN Impreza – it was jumping out of 3^rd gear yesterday, today he lost 4^th and 5^th. Sean Cassidy and Martina damaged the suspension on their Escort Cosworth late on Saturday, they have replaced a back strut and the car is "all over the place". Brian Durnien in the beautiful blue and white Mk2 flattened the exhaust on Arigna and is losing a bit of time. Martin Howley in the Lancer had 2 spins on Arigna. Cathal Rogers is still holding a position in the top 20 and the ex Eugene Donnelly G3 Escort, and that is despite burning the rubber off on the first run through Arigna. Pat White’s Impreza WRC blew a manifold gasket on Arigna, Pat saying "Every stage brings a new problem".

Paul Barrett in the Mk2 Escort, lying inside the top 30, lost a minute in Arigna with a broken throttle cable. Aisling Dooris continues to lead the Ladies category but reckons she went just a little too handy over this morning’s gravel stages. Lucy Ford-Hutchinson is 2^nd Lady, still going well but reports the Micra pulling badly to one side. Young Michael Curran is nicely placed at 16^th in his gpN Lancer. Jim Crozier was in the top 20 but seems to have disappeared in stage 9, reason as yet unknown. Andrew Stewart did not appear with the front cars through 10, was attempting a gearbox change at service. More news later. BRIAN AND LIZ PATTERSON (with thanks to Michael Patterson & Zoe Todd.