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Donegal man Donagh Kelly and navigator Kevin Flanagan took their first international rally win in this year’s Colm Quinn BMW Galway International Rally at the weekend.

Galway is gearing up for its big weekend of motor rallying when the annual Colm Quinn BMW Galway International Rally gets under way tomorrow.

Donegal cousins Declan and Brian Boyle took their first ever international win in the Colm Quinn BMW Galway International Rally.

More than 100 teams, including four-times winner Eugene Donnelly, will compete in this year’s Colm Quinn BMW Galway International Rally, representing a “significant increase” on last year.

More than 100 teams, including four-times winner Eugene Donnelly, will compete in this year’s Colm Quinn BMW Galway International Rally, representing a “significant increase” on last year.

Preparations are well advanced for the Colm Quinn BMW Galway International Rally which will take place over the weekend of Feb 7 to Feb 9 and comprising the opening round of the 2014 Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Tarmac Rally Championship.

Colm Quinn BMW is the new sponsor of the 2014 Galway International Rally.

The Irish rally season, and more specifically the Irish Tarmac Championships, roared into action over the weekend with the Safety Direct Galway International Rally. The event took place over a challenging, eight special stages, run in a one day format. Triple British Rally Champion, Keith Cronin, from Cork, really showed his talent through the day’s slippy and tough stages, by upping his pace on virtually every stage to win the event, ahead of former multiple Irish Tarmac Rally Champion, Eugene Donnelly.

British Rally champion Keith Cronin from Cork was the winner of this year’s Safety Direct Galway International Rally.

The 2012 Irish Motorsport season kicks off in earnest this weekend with the running of the opening round of the Irish Tarmac Championship, the Safety Direct Galway International Rally. In a new departure for the traditional two-day event, the 2012 rally will take place over one day only, with 10 stages scheduled for Sunday February 5. A special spectator stage on the Dyke Road in Galway city will open proceedings, with competitors then heading north to the Headford region for three additional tests, each run three times, before returning to Galway for the finish in Eyre Square on Sunday evening.