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When Aoife Raftery recounts spinning her suped-up Peugeot around an unexpectedly wet bend on a rough gravel course in Czech Republic last year, her shoulders sway with the memory. Wearing a sleeveless top in the morning heat of Gran Canaria where this year’s 47th Rally Islas Canarias begins today, May 2, the muscle memory of fast gear changes twitches in her exposed fore arms.

Motoring experts are calling for mandatory first aid training for all drivers so they know how to help in the event of a road accident.

Aoife Raftery has achieved her best performance in an FIA European Rally Championship event by finishing fourth overall. This is three places better than previously, when she finished seventh in the Czech Republic last season.

Under the shade of the famous Hill of Crockafatha where racing has taken place in Bellewstown since 1726, An Spidéal native, Ciarán De Barra is ready to welcome Irish breeders to see his new first season stallion, Marie’s Diamond at Diamond Stud Bellewstown, as part of the Irish Stallion Trail on January 12 and 13.

Galway’s Aoife Raftery is among a record-breaking entry list for female rally drivers in the next round of the FIA European Rally Championship.

ALONE, the national organisation supporting older people to age at home, has called for action from the Department of Health on loneliness, as new data shows that Ireland is the loneliest country in Europe.

Continental Europe was the setting for recent action from numerous Athlone Boat Club members as they represented the club with pride in Munich and Amsterdam.

Galway clubs enjoyed success the Connacht Indoor Athletic Championships held over two days in Athlone at the weekend.

Though time may have stood still for many Galway United fans since their play-off exit to Waterford FC in November, the landscape has shifted significantly since.

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.