2 October 2002: After nearly a three month break the highly competitive 2002 Ford Ireland KA Rally Championship returns with the sixth round of the series - the Murphy Construction Cork International Rally on the 5th & 6th of October.

Gerry Keyes (Limerick) currently leads the 2002 Ford Ireland KA Chionship with an impressive 146 points total, after four wins and one second place after the opening five rounds, however it appears that Gerry will now be sidelined due to a recent accident and this has now thrown open the Championship title race to David Lyons (Limerick), Kenneth Mulvaney (Sligo) and John Folan (Galway).

The Murphy Construction Cork „20‰ International Rally based in Cork City sees the crews tackle fourteen special stages totalling in excess of one hundred and thirty stage miles over two days. With such classic stages a Mullaghanish and Fuirhy the event will be a supreme test of the both the crews and the Ford KA.