Ireland's single seater circuit racing needs to change its structures radically if the path to world motorsport for home based drivers isn't to be cut off over the next few years, according to Wayne Douglas.
Motorsport - both domestically and internationally - will offer exciting challenges to a number of the 'young guns' of Irish Circuit Racing in 2013..
Donegal's Damien Faulkner, something of the "forgotten man" of Irish motorsport, is back.
The Irish Tarmac Rally Championship (ITRC) have decided not to expand beyond its present six rounds in 2013, writes John Kenny.
The start of the swimming events in London on Saturday morning could not have thrown up a more exciting race than the men's 400 metres individual medley (IM).
The Phoenix Park Motor Races event is making a long overdue return to Dublin. RTÉ's John Kenny reflects on the history of the event and looks forward to this year's action.
The organisers of the Donnelly Group Circuit of Ireland Rally say they are determined the event will remain part of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) in 2013.
John Kenny casts his eye over the Killarney Rally of the Lakes, while he also has news of Irish Status GP's withdrawal from Spa.
John Kenny looks ahead to the upgraded Formula Sheane series and the initiatives taken by Mondello Park to reinvent itself in the wake of the economic downturn
John Kenny believes that 2012 is shaping up to be a an excellent year for Irish motorsport.
The Irish Motorsport fraternity, especially those involved in rallying, can look back on 2011 with a certain degree of pride and satisfaction on results in both the domestic and international scene.
The organisers of the Dunlop National Rally Championship have stolen something of a march on the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship, writes John Kenny.
Alex Sinclair, the CEO of Motorsport Ireland, has responded to recent criticism that the governing body of the sport here isn't doing enough to reinvigorate Irish circuit racing.
What has happened to Irish circuit racing?
It has probably gone unnoticed but Ireland's Cliff Dempsey, who is making a career in running cars in the British Formula Ford Championship, seems to have an eye for talent.
'A smile spread across his face when Jean Todt, President of the FIA, the world governing body of Motorsport, says that his relationship with Motorsport Ireland hasn't been soured...'
With January now behind us and the motorsport season revving up for 2011, the year promises much for Irish motorsport competitors, writes John Kenny.
John Kenny looks back at the many Irish motorsport successes in 2010 and ahead to 2011.
RTÉ Sport's John Kenny comments on the decision to include the Jim Clark Rally in Scotland as part of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship for 2011.
John Kenny looks at a positive year for Status Grand Prix, the Irish GP3 Racing team, ahead of the end of the inaugural GP3 series.