Course will provide no comfort
Fethard Rally Report 3
Thursday, June 13 2002
Will Downing

The ten-mile stage for today's Fethard Rally will test the best of the local and national talent on show for the duration of the afternoon's proceedings. Clerk of the course Des Byrne has devised a stage that begins at Haggard Bridge, four miles north-west of Fethard. The route snakes southward through Battlestown, Kilbride, Clonlard, Knockanduff and Lewistown, before hooking northward for half a mile towards Haytown, just outside Fethard-on-Sea itself. A mile eastward through Connagh will bring the field right to the edge of Fethard, before a dramatic left-turn at Connagh Crossroads. From there, it's north all the way, with the cars finishing up close to where they started at Haggard, travelling via Ballygow to get there. In all, the course is relatively flat, with the first half of the course providing the drivers with trickier corners, sharper bends and more difficult turns than the latter section. Definitively, it will be a test.