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Maguire’s Champions at the Monaghan Endurance
Stranoodan men, Shane and Ciaran Maguire finished 1 st overall on our
Endurance Trial which took place last Sunday. The brother duo had a 2m 31s
advantage over 2 nd placed Andrew Wedlock and Ryan Treanor. 3 rd place OA
went to Graham O’Donoghue/Paul Reilly. Garry Farrelly assisted by Michael
Sheridan and Sam Patterson organised this year’s event with was based out of
Aughnamullen GAA. The event was a counting round of the Motorsport Ireland
National Endurance Trial Championship.
Sixteen selectives awaited competitors on the day. Eight before and after a
lunch/fuel stop which was at Watters Londis in Castleblaney.
In the classes, Karl O’Donoghue/Kevin Fagan were 1 st in class A2M with Ted
Gaffney/Damien Quinn finishing 2 nd . Noel Devlin/Deirdre Gallagher were 1 st in
class A2S and Michael Connolly/Eoghán Farrell were 1 st in class A2N. In class
A2B, Darragh Mullen/Aideen Lynch were 1 st , Mickey Conlon/ Domhnall
Lennon were 2 nd and Becky Hollinshed/Lauren Kennedy were 3 rd .
In class B, Shane Burns/Dave Ray were 1 st , Geoffrey Conboy/Joey Finneran
were 2 nd and David Forde/Patrick O’Leary finished 3 rd . Sean and Caolain
McCaffrey finished 5 th in the class.
Martin Tynan/David McCrudden finished 1 st in class C. In fact, Martin and
David were the fastest crew over the entire day but as class C is for cars that
don’t conform to the endurance specification, they were ineligible to finish in
the top three overall. Aaron McGorman/Darren Lavery were 2 nd in the class and
Michael Carbin/Conor Mohan finished 3 rd . Conor actually flies out to Finland
this week in preparation for the next round of the Junior World Rally
Championship which starts next week. They have also entered another Finnish
event, the HYAcenter Ralli which begins this Friday. Conor and his driver
Eamonn Kelly will be hoping for better luck this time as mechanical trouble has
plagued them in recent European events. Martin and Gretchen Swinburne
finished 4 th in the class, Shane and Molly Maguire finished 5 th , Mickey
McNelis/Peter Farrell finished 6 th Cathal and Dara McGlone finished 7 th , Elijah
and Isaiah Dixon finished 8 th . Bob Grahan/Caolan Treanor finished in 9th.
Matthew McKenna/Ryan McDaid finished 10 th and Francis McElvaney/Ella
Gillanders finished 11 th in the highly competitive class.
Laoise Shiel/Padraic Shiel were 1 st in class D, Andrew Mackarel/Richard
Cassidy were 1 st in class E and Ciaran McGorman/Róisín McGorman were 1 st in
class F
After the event, Garry thanked all the competitors and marshals for their help
and support and the land owners for giving permission for the event to use their
property as without their help and support the event couldn’t run. The next
round for the Endurance Championship will be, Westmeath Motor Club’s
Endurance Trial on August 18 th .