On this week’s Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. We talk to Josh McErlean who competed in the Terras D Aboboreira Rally as he debuted the TokSport Skoda Fabia Rally 2, finishing fifth overall.  Desi Henry, the overall winner of the Maiden City Stages Rally, plus Damien Tourish, the first rear wheel drive car home, tell us about their adventures.  Eamonn Kelly tells us about his work with MI Academy on the Rally Islas Canaries and his recent run at Deja Vu NorthWest.   Finally, we look...

In this episode of Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, we have a busy show again.  We talk WRC with Rich Millener and how he feels the year has gone so far for M Sport.  William Creighton and Liam Regan give us their thoughts on Rally Croatia.  Closer to home round three of the National Rally Championship, the Birr Stages Rally took place last weekend. We hear from third-place driver David Kelly. John Warren and Ruthann O’Connor had their first event in a Fiesta R5, hear about the fun they...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. In this episode, we catch up with the latest happenings in the European Rally Championship. There were three MI Rally Academy teams competing in Rally Hungary. We spoke with Jon Armstrong and Eoin Treacy, who competed in their M-Sport Fiesta Rally 2 and Junior ERC competitors Aoife Raftery and Jack Brennan.Round two of the British Rally Championship, Rallynuts, took place last weekend. We hear from the winners Osian Pryce and Rhodri Evans.We also spoke to...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, Series 3, Episode 20: Luke Barry joins us as a co-presenter.We chat to the top three finishers from the Monaghan Stages Rally – Josh Moffett, Sam Moffett and Eddie Doherty, plus the top modified finisher Daniel McKenna.  We review the WRC Safari Rally Kenya with Toyota co-driver Aaron Johnston and Hyundai engineer Jamie McMillan.  Wrapping up this week’s podcast, we look forward to RallyNuts, ERC Hungary and the Willie Loughman rallies. Did you enjoy this...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast Series 3, Episode 19. In the latest instalment, we look back at the Circuit of Ireland with overall winners Matt Edwards & Dave Moynihan. We also hear from the winners of the modified category Jason Black & Karl Egan plus the winner of the rally’s historic section Tomas Davies.  Joining us this week to discuss their exciting news for 2024 are Motorsport Ireland Academy, members Aoife Raftery and Jack Brennan. Finally, we catch up with Thomas Treanor...

Krunching Gears - The Rally PodcastSeries 3, episode 18: This week joining us is Luke Barry to look back at the first round of the Probite British Rally Championship at the Legend Fires North West Stages. We speak with the podium finishers, Chris Ingram, Liam Regan and Meirion Evans. Closer to home, we speak with Graeme Stewart, Event Director for the Circuit of Ireland. Also, hear from Kevin O’Driscoll on his thoughts ahead of the third round of the Irish Tarmac Championship at the Circuit...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, Series 3, Episode 17: In this special episode, we chat with Jon Armstrong and Eoin Treacy. They will be undertaking the full European Rally Championship (ERC) during the 2024 season.  Jon and Eoin will be piloting an M-Sport Rally2 Fiesta in all eight rounds of the championship with the support of the Motorsport Ireland Academy. With a mixture of three gravel and five asphalt events, the ERC will get underway on April 12th in Hungary.

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast episode 16 of Series 3, we look back at the West Cork Rally, round two of the Irish Tarmac Championship, with Mikie Galvin, Matt Edwards, William Creighton, Chris Melly, Ryan MacHugh and Kevin Horgan.  We also look ahead to the first round of the British Rally Championship, the North West Stages, with Matt Cotton.

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast. Series 3, Episode 15, sees us chatting with Niall Burns, Darren Curran and Kyle White about their Bishopscourt Rally escapades. Seb Perez & Gary McElhinney talk about their victory on Rally Clasico Isla de Mallorca. Sinead Canny tells us about the MI Women in Motorsport Commission event last week and about competing in the West Cork Rally. Mikie Galvin talks West Cork Rally and this year’s British Rally Championship campaign with Keith Cronin. Kevin...

Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, episode 14, We hear from William Creighton on his 2024 British Rally Championship campaign.   Jonathan Pringle talks about his MK2 adventures on the first round of the National Rally Championship in Mayo.  Brian Crawford, CoC for the Bishopscourt Stages rally, tells us about the 2nd round of the NI Rally Championship.  We hear from Peter Dowds and Jordan Hone and their participation in the Micra Challenge.  Ronan Cox brings us up to speed on the...

In this episode of Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, we get a chance to hear some fantastic rally stories. We review the Samonas Rally Fivemiletown, talking to overall winners Niall McGonigle and Caolan McKenna. Hannah Davison tells us of her travels from across the world from the co-driver seat.Finally, Laura McMenamin joins us to tell us about the Mayo Stages Rally that kicks off the National Rally Championship this Sunday. 

In this latest episode William Creighton joins us to announce that Liam Regan and himself are competing on the West Cork Rally in their M-Sport supported Fiesta Rally 2.

In this episode, we look back at WRC Sweden with guest co-host Luke Barry and chat with Aaron Johnston on his and Takamoto Katsuta's event, Eamonn Kelly & Conor Mohan with Willie Mavitty about the start of their Junior WRC campaign and with WRC2 contenders William Creighton & Liam Regan. If you enjoyed this episode, a follow/subscribe would be brilliant.

In the latest episode of Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, we review round one of the Northern Ireland Rally Championship and the Irish Forestry Championship. Strong entries and fantastic battles show the strength in depth of rallying across this island. We also preview round one of the Northern Ireland Forest Challenge that kicks off this weekend at the Fivemiletown Rally, Denise McCanney from Omagh Motor Club shares the details. From the NI opener in Kirkistown, we speak to overall...

In this episode, we chat with Adrian Hetherington and Ronan O’Neill about competing in the 1st round of the British Historic Rally Championship, the Riponian Stages rally.  As the Irish Forestry Championship gets underway, we hear from Cian Donnellan, the Championship’s PRO.  Gavin Campbell, Northern Ireland Rally Championship co-ordinator, brings us up to speed on the 2024 season.  Andrew Bushe talks to us about signing up for the 2024 Micra Challenge. We hope you enjoyed this episode, would...

In this episode of Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast, we roll back the years. To me, the car that captured Irish Rallying in the 1980s was the Opel Manta 400. In this episode, we rewind the clock to 1988. We attended the launch of a very special Manta, Vincent Bonner's Donegal Oil-sponsored Manta. Donagh Kelly is building an extraordinary collection of cars in his Stables Motorsport Museum, the  1988 Donegal Bonner Manta fits into the collection perfectly. We talked with Vincent and his...

This week’s episode concentrates on the Galway International Rally, and we speak to Winning co-driver Mikie Galvin and third-place co-driver Andy Hayes. Frank Kelly, winner of the two-wheel drive section, regales us with his Galway story. We also catch up with Ryan McHugh, Keelan Grogan and Joe Kelly who battled for the Rally4 honours in Galway. Last but not least William Creighton and M-Sport Team Principal Rich Millener join us to discuss William & Liam’s upcoming WRC2 campaign. We hope...

In this week’s episode, rally journalist Luke Barry joins us to co-host the podcast and give us his view on the recent WRC Monte Carlo rally.  We also hear from Rory Kennedy on the passing of Austin Frazer, Kevin O’Driscoll brings us up to speed on this weekend’s Galway International Rally. Declan Casey talks about this year’s ITRC Historic Championship. If you enjoyed this episode, please like and subscribe to our channel. To keep up to date with all the latest Irish Rally news. 

In this week’s episode, we speak to Paul Murphy from the Toyota Gazoo WRC team about the Monte Carlo Rally and the debut of the Yaris Rally2 car. We hear from Matt Edwards, three-time British Rally Champion and his plans to compete in this year’s Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. Staying with the ITRC, we chat to Sean Hayde, the recently appointed Championship Manager. It would be fantastic if you could subscribe to the channel and get all the latest uploads.   596

n this week’s episode, we speak to Paul Murphy from the Toyota Gazoo WRC team about the Monte Carlo Rally and the debut of the Yaris Rally2 car. We hear from Matt Edwards, three-time British Rally Champion and his plans to compete in this year’s Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. Staying with the ITRC, we chat to Sean Hayde, the recently appointed Championship Manager.It would be fantastic if you could subscribe to the channel and get all the latest uploads. 

This latest episode of, Krunching Gears - The Rally Podcast looks back at the 2023 East African Safari Classic Rally with John Coyne, Josh McErlean, Eoin Treacy, Paul Rowley and Richard Tuthill.  Join us for a bucket list adventure in a classic Porsche 911 through the plains of East Africa for a tale of broken steering racks and gearboxes, flash floods, fesh fesh, secret route details, sketchy pace notes and wild animals over 2,100km of competitive stages.We would be grateful if you enjoyed...

Join Krunching Gears for a one-to-one chat with Mark Higgins, whose accolades include three times British Rally Champion, British Junior Rally Champion, 2018 British Rallycross Champion, five times winner of the Manx Rally, winner of the Cork 20, Galway and Ulster internationals, Isle of Man TT lap record holder, works driver for Nissan, Volkswagen, Hyundai & Ford and not forgetting James Bond’s stunt driver! It would be fantastic if you could subscribe to us. It makes a huge difference,...

Krunching Gears reviews the 2023 WRC Season with Becs Williams and Luke Barry. With over 20 years spent working in the World Rally Championship, Becs Williams is one of the most respected and recognisable faces and voices of the WRC. Luke is an award-winning motorsport journalist (not to mention Junior BRC podium finisher on the 2023 Jim Clark Rally). Their unique insight into the WRC 2023 season and thoughts ahead of the 2024 are full of emotion and fun. If you enjoyed this episode, we would...

Our third season kicks off with a WRC special. We celebrate some of the crews from this Island who have reached the pinnacle of our sport, the World Rally Championship. Aaron Johnston is one of only six codrivers to have competed in all the rounds of the 2023 WRC in a Rally 1 car, he recaps his season and looks forward to 2024.William Creighton and Liam Regan became the Junior World Rally Champions in 2023, along with fellow JWRC competitors Eamonn Kelly and Conor Mohan, they review their...