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Have you ever fancied sitting into a rally car and experiencing what rally drivers do? If so, the WRC Ford Focus rally car simulator, which will be in Ballina’s Market Square on Saturday March 8 at 4pm, is an event not to be missed.

The Deane family name is rapidly gaining a high calibre reputation in the sport of autocross. On Sunday last Derek Deane extended his winning streak on the National Loose Surface Autocross Championships to three, with a commanding performance in his JB buggy.

Peugeot’s iconic GTi returns to Irish roads next month.

In a unique charitable event laptop computers, donated by Galway businesses and educational institutions, will be carried overland from Germany to the Middle East in a rally car driven by NUI Galway postgraduate researcher Armin Haller before being donated to a school in Jordan.

Young people from Hebron gathered on Saturday last to exhibit their model radio-controlled race cars which they built during a drug and road safety programme which they undertook at the Happee House in Hebron Park recently.

Sometimes people can catch you unaware with the sheer scale of an achievement or undertaking. So it was this week, when I was invited up to Hebron Park’s own community centre, the Happe House.

Final preparations are underway for this weekend’s Safety Direct Galway International Rally. The event, which is the first round of the Citroen Irish Tarmac Rally Championship, kicks off on Friday evening with a ceremonial start in Oranmore village.

The Ford Escort Mark 2 was like a drunk girl in heels trying to make it to a nightclub. We were all over the road, spinning and sliding, the arse trying to escape into the bushes.

During the past week MacDonagh Junction, Kilkenny has showcased old rally, vintage and classic cars for the viewing public. The showcase will come to an end this Sunday, so it is advised that car enthusiasts and rally lovers or just car appreciators to go and check out the showcase.

High speed action and drama will be the order of the day this weekend, as the best drivers and co-drivers in the country head westwards to battle for glory on the 2009 TF Royal Hotel and Theatre Mayo Stages Rally.