First Irish race meeting of 2020 set to go ahead at Kirkistown in September

The Belfast and District Club’s ‘King of Kirkistown’ meeting has received the go-ahead, with up to 150 riders due to participate.

However, only 300 fans will be permitted to attend the race, which will be held under strict Covid-19 protocols next month.

Last year, Lisburn man Carl Phillips won the feature ‘King of Kirkistown’ on Easter Monday as part of a double at the Ulster Superbike meeting, when Jeremy McWilliams was also among the winners, bagging a brace in the Supertwin class on Ryan Farquhar’s KMR Kawasaki.

The event returned in 2019 for the first time since 2010, when Portadown’s Marshall Neill took the spoils.

No Irish road races have taken place this year, but the Cookstown 100 is due to go ahead from September 11-12 in Co Tyrone after the meeting was postponed from its original April date due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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