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Four-times Irish champion Eugene Donnelly and co-driver Paddy Toner claimed victory in this year’s Safety Direct Galway International Rally 2009.

The 2009 rally season has kicked off in earnest with last week-end’s running of the Birr Stages Rally, the opening round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship.

The Honda Civic has been re-assessed as one of Europes safest cars according to the new independent crash testing results from Euro NCAP.

A 42-year-old, married, mother of three, who when driving her friend home after they had drunk a few glasses of wine, pulled out in front of a Garda car, was disqualified from driving for three years at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

Ambrose Gaughan from Foxford and his Lahardane co-driver Derek Molloy claimed one of the best results of their rally careers to date, with second in class nine on Sunday’s Cavan Stages Rally. Competing in a Toyota Corolla the pair had a trouble-free run to finish 53rd overall from a starting position of 146th, recording a great result against some very strong opposition.

They say in sport getting the first win is the hardest, that once that elusive initial victory has been achieved, subsequent success is easier to come by.

A learner driver who did not display his L plates was disqualified from driving for six months at Ballina District Court this week.

Local Galway driver Neil Pierce and co-driver Enda O’Leary have recently been crowned Dunlop class 11 National Rally Champions.

The jury in a trial heard yesterday how a young woman narrowly avoided being crushed by an out-of-control vehicle by leaping into a stairwell and then cowering from a shower of broken car parts.

A jury in a trial which heard how a young motorist had been killed when his car collided with a steel signpost has acquitted a man of the charge of dangerous driving causing death.