It’s back to back to back for the Boyle cousins at Harvest Rally

For the third year, and after a hard 8 special stages, the winners, Declan Boyle and Brian Boyle came first to the finisher’s ramp at the Bayview Hotel, Killybegs on Saturday.

This was the third year for the Lettermacaward, Co.Donegal crew, to win the event, in their Fiesta WRC with a winning margin of 1 minute and 39.4 seconds, over second placed driver Manus Kelly and his co-driver, Gareth Doherty, in his Subaru Impreza.

This event was the final round of the 2016 Sligo Pallets Border Championship with many valuable points to decide classes for the season.

Early in the day, Ex-Harvest winner Garry Jennings and Rory Kennedy also in a Subaru WRC pushed hard and were the Boyle’s closest rivals, but the car expired after stage 6.

The Boyles kept it steady, while other drivers, such as ex-Harvest winner Niall Maguire and co-driver Enda Sherry, started cautiously but kept a steady pace to finish third overall.

Top 2 wheel drive crew and 4^th overall was Gary Kiernan and Ryan Moore in an Escort followed close behind by the Letterkenny’s Damien Gallagher and Mac Walsh in another Escort.

Muff driver, Joe McGonigle and Ciaran Geaney, in the new Skoda R5, from Muff were making a steady, but hard-charging 6^th place.

The top 10 finishers in the National Rally were as follows:

Also competing on the event, were Historic and Junior classes.

The Historic Rally was won by Stephen McFerran and James McKeefry, in a MKII Escort, while the junior classes were hotly contended all day, with eventual winners Gary McNamee and Bernard Foley.