Renault teams with Irish Restaurant Awards 2017

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Renault Ireland and The Restaurant Association of Ireland have announced Renault Ireland as the official car partner of the Irish Restaurant Awards 2017, writes Trish Whelan . The Irish Restaurant Awards (RAI) will travel around the country driving new Renault models for a series of regional events this March to announce county and regional award winners across 15 different categories. County winners will be announced at four regional events with over 600 guests expected to attend each. This year’s host counties for the events are Kilkenny, Fermanagh, Limerick and Sligo. This year over 80,000 individual nominations were cast online from 11-25 January. Pictured above are Ciara Doyle (Business Development & Sponsorship Manager, Restaurant Association of Ireland), and Liz O’Gorman (Marketing Manager Renault Ireland) with two chefs from The Radisson Blue St Helen’s, Stillorgan Road, Dublin. Speaking on the quantity of nominations received, CEO of the Restaurants Association of Ireland
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Citroen unveils its C3 WRC assault

One month before the 2017 FIA World Rally Championship gets underway at Rally Monte Carlo, Citroen Racing officially unveils its C3 WRC in Abu Dhabi.

Complying with the new FIA regulations which sees the introduction of a new generation of World Rally Cars, the C3 WRC heralds the return of Citroen with eight manufacturers’ titles and no fewer than 96 wins to the brand’s name.

For the 2017 season, the Citroen Total Abu Dhabi WRT will enter between two and four C3 WRCs for its crews; Kris Meeke/Paul Nagle, Craig Breen/Scott Martin, Stephane Lefebre/Gabin Moreau, and Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi/Chris Patterson. Citroen’s ambitions for the next few seasons are to win races in normal conditions by beating their competitors, and then go for world titles in 2018.

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