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Limerick Hillclimb Cancelled
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Ger Cusack takes to the stages on his bike.
Ger is going taking on the Circuit of Munster stages on his bike this year to raise much needed money for Our Lady's Hospital Crumlin.
Ger will be doing the cycle on the 30th of May and will cover 120kms.
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Niall O'Connell's story on the Lakes rally from start to finish.
We started on stage 4, the stage was very slippy and found it tough staying on the road, stage 5 was not too bad,started to get into it,
but the wipers went towards the end, we broke a bolt on the steering arm on the gap but it didnt slow us down too much but it got worse on the road section to parc ferme,
finished Saturday in 4th oa, got steering and wipers fixed on Sunday morning and everything went well all day,stages were nice, finished 2nd o/a in the historics.

Kerry Stages News Rally News
Update 12:25 17 April 2010
Limerick Motor Club played a big part on helping to fill the entries with 23 crews including Main field, Juniors and Historics with Eamon Daly and Paul Purtill being late entries.
Finishing 7th O/A 1st in Class was Paul Purtill with a new navigator and only second time in rear wheel drive but was well able to keep the notes called it was Kaye Shanahan
8th O/A and 2nd in Class Ed Synan and Denis O'Conell had a very good battle with Paul and only 3 seconds between them after 7 stages.
15th O/A 2nd in Class Eamon Daly and Anthony O'Connaill after losing time on the second loop with a puncture.
20th O/A 2nd in Class Pat Ryan and Jack Dalton the only trouble they had was to catch the Mini in front of them.
42nd O/A 3rd in Class Liam Mulcaire and Shane Meade had a good clean run with there new engine.
43rd O/A 8th in Class Sean Moran and Keith Moriarty didn't have the best of days at the office.
46th O/A 2nd in Class Joe McCarthy and Noel Spencer had a super drive in there first day out in the Honda Civic.
51st O/A 4th in Class Donal Dineen and Denis Dineen well deserved after a non finish in Birr.
55th O/A 5th in Class Mike Walsh and Ger Ryan had a clean run all day.
56th O/A 13th in Class Maurice Meskell and Trish Clancy had to shake off the cobwebs in the early stages but really enjoyed it.
59th O/A 3rd in Class TJ O'Connell and Calvin Kirby had a trouble free day.
61th O/A 4th in Class Des Roche and Mark O'Sullivan were keeping the pressure on TJ and Calvin all day.
Non Finishes
Frank Sweeney and Seamus O'Connor DNF stage 2
Eamon Hanley and PJ O'Dowd DNF stage 2
John Collins and Anthony Collins DNF stage 2
Ken Lyons and Paddy McDonald DNF stage 5
Dan Mulcahy and Tony Dineen DNF stage 6
Sean Lison and Katrina Walsh DNF stage 7
Juniors
2nd O/A Kevin O'Connor and Donal Balfe.
10th O/A David Carmody and Donal Falvey
Johnny O'Connor and Carrie Moroney DNF stage 5
Historics
4th O/A David Dee and Rita Dee
Tommy Mason and Podge Doody DNF

Clare Hillclimbs 3/4 April 2010
Updated 12:05 6 April 2010
2009 Irish champion and club member Paul O'Connel finished second both days on the opening rounds of the Connaught Competition Engines Hillclimb and Sprint Championship
This event was the debut for his Pilbeam MP58H hillclimb competition car.
Paul commented "Good first weekend in the Duck (Pilbeam mp58). 2nd overall both days was not bad considering. Now to start driving it quickly!"
Saturday at The Corkscrew had difficult wet conditions and Sunday at The Scalp was drier.

Paul being interviewed for Setanta Sports
Peter Cummins finished 1st in class 9 on Saturday and Ed Synan 1st in class 9 on Sunday knocking Peter back to 2nd
Denis Hogan also competed in his BMW M3
Full results at www.irishhillclimb.com

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