New World Rally Championship changes underpinned feasibility of rotating bid - Motorsport Ireland president Aiden Harper

Motorsport Ireland president Aiden Harper says changes to the requirements to host a potential Irish round of the World Rally Championship now make it feasible for a trio of venues to anchor the event on a rotating basis.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Irish motorsport's governing body revealed that rather than settling on a single winning bid, as had been anticipated, the three regions which had been in contention to provide the location for the WRC's service park - Kerry, Limerick, and the South East region, based out of Waterford - would take turns to host for the years 2025-27.

Last week, Harper had indicated to RTÉ Sport that moving the event from place to place each year would not be ideal because of the "incredible infrastructural build in a service park when you look at all the requirements that are needed".

But speaking to RTÉ Sport following Tuesday's confirmation that the three locations would host on a rotating basis, Harper said the outlook had shifted in favour of that model.

"There was no differentiation between the three of them in our final scoring matrix system. We couldn't actually pick one winner so our job was made very hard," he said.

"So we worked with the motorsport promoter in WRC to see would it be possible to move around three locations in three years. It has been done in other countries and that's the model that we went with.

"There are new changes coming in which we've just learned about in the last week. WRC will take the new change in 2025 where some of the team structures will become smaller and will become more mobile and some of the infrastructure that will be required won't be as required as before, so that actually helped our thinking process when it came up to the final crunch and that