Millstreets Billy Coleman gave one of his best ever performances at World Rally Championship level on the 1985 Cosica Rally and went on to finish a fine 4th overall on what was a very tough event, we take a look back at a great video which was made at the time following the adventures of Billy and his Team on this famous event.
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Category: Motor SportsMillstreets Billy Coleman gave one of his best ever performances at World Rally Championship level on the 1985 Cosica Rally and went on to finish a fine 4th overall on what was a very tough event, we take a look back at a great video which was made at the time following the adventures of Billy and his Team on this famous event.
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Coleman Is The Name Rallying Is The Game“. Cork Man Billy Coleman Rally Driver / Farmer. The Millstreet Maestro is a 30 min documentary film on Billy Coleman aka The Millstreet Maestro who is recognised as Ireland’s greatest ever rally driver. The show was produced for RTE as part of their Townlands strand and aired in 2003.
[Here is a 3 minute preview of the documentary which you can see on youTube. Can't put it on here unfortunately.]
Links:
The Kingdom Newspaper: Racing heirs open new chapter in remarkable Coleman rally story (2003)
The Sunday Mirror 2003 (Aug 10th 2003): Farming Family who are Tops in Motor Racing
There are some 60 odd videos featuring Billy Coleman on youTube
It’s been a big week for Charlie Drake. The 32-year-old Derinagree man took home the Australian Rally Championships Premier League title last weekend, after two battling stages in Victoria. Celtic Motorsports were three points behind going into the rally and needed to win both of their heats in Warragul, Victoria, to take the 2011 title.
And to follow up his big win, he got married to Narelle today. Congrats on both counts to Charlie.
Read the article and interview with Charlie which appeared on the Irish Echo (an Australian Paper) a few days ago on his triumph in Warragul, and on his wedding. continue reading…
GAA:
** Camogie County 13-a-Side Junior Plate Final: Millstreet 0-9 v St Fanahan’s 1-4; Sat Nov 13th [Read the match report]
** Evening Echo U21 AHC semi-final: Carrigaline 0-10 Duhallow 0-11. Well done to the Millstreet lads on the team – Mark Ellis, Dave McCaul & Michael Vaughan. U21 Final – Duhallow v Midleton – Sunday next Nov 20th. Throw-in is now 6pm @ Pairc Ui Rinn.
** Vocational Schools S.B.F: Col. Bobail Bheanntrai 1-13 Millstreet C.S. 0-04 (7th Nov)
** Vocational Schools S.B.G.F: Col. Ghobnatan 5-11 Millstreet C.S. 5-07 (7th Nov)
** Vocational Schools S.B.H: M.I.C.C. 3-12 Millstreet C.S. 2-07 (17th Oct)
** Congrats to Willie Kiely who won the Millstreet Club Prize in the Cork County Board Club Draw for October
Soccer:
AUL 1A: Rathcoole Rovers 7 Glenthorn Celtic 4, Millstreet Celtic v Glenvale (off).
AUL 3B: Los Zarcos v Kanturk (off), Bweeng 4 Rathcoole Rovers 1
CSL U15 Div 4: Corinthian Boys B 0 Rathcoole Rovers 0
Rallying: Banna Resort Kerry Mini Stage Rally, the Cork crew of Banteer’s, Barry Meade (Ford Escort) and his Millstreet co-driver, Liam Moynihan took a 12 second victory.
The Cork 20 Rally which was on last weekend was scheduled to have four stages in the Millstreet area on Sunday morning. Unfortunately the early morning start on Mullaghanish (6:30) was densely fogged with heavy rain, and with driving conditions deemed too dangerous, the first two stages around Millstreet were cancelled 
but the second two Stage 9 & Stage 10 (repeats of the first two stages) were run later in the momrning.
However, there were some Millstreet competitors with Liam Moynihan co-driving with Garry Jennings finishing in third position overall in their Mitsubishi Evo 9:
from RallySportLive: “Driving conditions were made very treacherous by darkness and dense fog during the opening leg, but Garry Jennings and Liam Moynihan put in a great performance in their Group N Mitsubishi Lancer.
Jennings/Moynihan led the rally at the overnight halt, with continue reading…
The Cork 20 Rally will be passing near Millstreet this Sunday morning. First thing on Sunday morning (6:30am the cars will be starting the Mullaghanish stage which will finish near the main Millstreet / Macroom road. The cars then progress to another stage around Mushera. Both stages will be repeated before the rally moves on to Fuhiry and Kilnamatra.
“Due to the Cork 20 Rally, there will be some road closures and diverts in place on Sunday morning for continue reading…
Congratulations to PAUL KELLY from CARLOW who’s ticket was pulled out of the drum in mondello park on sat to win the MK2 Escort.
A total of Eur 19,300 was raised for Our Ladies Childrens Hospital Crumlin & The National Childrens Research Centre
A huge thanks to all who bought tickets and helped in the project from the Irish Escort Owners Club
Below are three videos of Charlie Drake driving at WRC Rally Australia from just over a week ago in NSW Australia
Stage: WELSHES 2 continue reading…
GAA:
* Cork County Junior B Qualifier: St. Johns 0-9 Goleen 3-9
* Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship Semi-Final – Clare 2-19 Cork 0-15 – Mark Ellis was at Centre back. [read the report]
* Tickets for the forthcoming Munster Final in Killarney can be purchased on tickets.ie or from club officials if you contact them. Details on trains to the match can be seen on the Official Cork GAA website.
Athletics:
Ballyclough 5km Road Race, Co Cork: Mens 40 section: 3rd C Murphy (Millstreet) 21:34
Soccer:
Cork Womens Soccer: Kevin Barry Cup, Glounthaune 3 Millstreet 0
Greyhounds:
Curraheen Park (18th June) Race 7 The Cork GOBA A2 575 Stakes. Semi-Final: won by Paddy Barrett’s (Millstreet) Another Dippy (Head Bound-Dims Dippy). [full results]. (click here to see the video of the race)
Rallying:
Donegal International Rally: Daniel Lucey/Conor O’Flynn (#115) in their Ford Escort Mk1, who were featured on millstreet.ie last week, made it to stage 23 of 24 but didn’t finish the rally after climbing to 7th position in the National Class to that point.
They can be seen in action in Donegal @1:11 in this video.
The Rally Team pictured by Andrew Pollock at Drishane.
The Enthusiastic Team all set for the forthcoming Rally.
Derrinagree Rally Competitor, Daniel Lucey and his Co-Driver, Conor O`Flynn from Millstreet in their 2 Litre Ford Escort are busy getting ready to compete in the Donegal International Rally which is being held from continue reading…
On Sunday 29th May, 112 cars left Darby O’Gills Hotel in Killarney and set off on a 90 mile tour of the mountains of Kerry. The aim was to raise money for the Oncology Unit in Tralee General Hospital. The run coincided with the first anniversary of Anne Casey Joy who passed away on 24th May 2010.
Organised by Anne’s brother Declan, along with her husband Billy, and a number of good friends, the route took the cars over the famous Molls gap, Ballaghbeama Pass, Ballaghasheen pass and continued to a rest halt at Rossbeigh Beach. Finally the convoy made its way to Beaufort via another famous landmark, Caragh Lake where continue reading…
Jim McSweeney has published another eighty odd photos of the cars at the Vintage and Family Fun Day in the Green Glens on Facebook. This is on top of his album of tractors and farm machinery which we detailed yesterday. (again you’ll have to be logged into FB to see them)
More photo albums have been posted on photoBucket by Colm who had his own Escort on display
GAA:
* U21 HC: Newmarket 1-8, Millstreet 3-13
* JAHL: Newmarket 1-11 Millstreet 0-14
* JBFL: Freemount 4-10 St John’s 0-7;
* MAHL: Cuchullains (Kanturk & Kilbrin) v Millstreet, Sunday 12pm
* Ladies Football Munster Minor A Championship Round 1: Cork 3-15 Tiperary 1-02 :: Congrats to Alanna Barry who is on the Cork team. [Match report] Cork play Clare (20th April) and Kerry in the next two weeks.
Coiste na nÓg Thuaidh
* U16 A Hurling League: Kilworth 6-22, Millstreet 0-05
* U14 A Football League: Millstreet 3-08, Thomas Russells 6-17
* U13 A Football League S/Fs: Wolfe Tones 3-09, Millstreet 1-20 (AET)
* Well done to the Millstreet team that played Valley Rovers in an exhibition game at half time during the Cork v Dublin NHL game in Páirc Uí Chaoimh last Sunday (pictured right)
Soccer:
Corinthians Cup Quarter-Final: Park Utd B 3 Rathcoole Rovers A 0
AUL 2A: CFC Banteer 1 Millstreet Celtic 1
AUL 3A: Lakewood Ath 1 Los Zarcos 0
Rallying:
Charlie Drake (pictured right) made a return to the Australian Rally Championship over the weekend after a big crash last year (see the crash videos). He was competing in the QUIT Forest Rally 2011, but was forced out in the long 19km third stage of day two, while making steady progress up the classifications to seventh position.
Athletics:
Awaiting results of the Clara Mountain Run
More results will added here as they become available.
LTV2 Millstreet: Full version of Programme 185 which was first broadcast on March 24th last is now online. On this Programme we show a clip from the play “Life After Santa Ponza” which was recently held over in Dromtarriffe Hall, we also go to Finland for continue reading…
The great news for viewers and fans of LTV2 Millstreet is that they can now watch complete programmes from LTV2 Millstreet on Youtube, so for anyone who can`t receive the signal they can now catch up with LTV2 on YouTube instead. The first programme to be shown in full on YouTube is Programme 175 so sit back and enjoy the first full programme on the internet.
For the rallying fanatics out there, here is some footage from the 1987 Circuit of Ireland, on board with Billy Coleman/Ronan Morgan in their Prodrive BMW M3
Introduced by “… lets meet a man who knows about Ford Escorts”, John Moynihan who runs his rallying workshop on the West End in Millstreet, appeared on a special edition of RPM Motorsport which was covering the inaugural running of the “Historic Stages Halloween Rally” which was run in Carrick-on-Suir, where stars of the 1970s and 80s competed.
The video is available on the RTE website, and John is talking from 38:45 to 43:30, and is only available until Sunday 2 January 2011.
Declan Casey of the Irish Ford Escort Owners Club has sent us some photos from the Killarney Fun Run which was on Sat 13th last. Lots of photos below: continue reading…
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