All-Kerry team aiming for world’s biggest motorcycle endurance event

All-Kerry team aiming for world’s biggest motorcycle endurance event

Plans are being put in place to enter an all-Kerry team in the 2026 International Six Days Enduro (ISDE), the world’s biggest motorcycle endurance event.

The effort is being led by Niall Gunn from Ballybunion, who also manages the 360 Motorsports Park in Killflynn.

Gunn attended this year’s Six Days in Italy where he met race officials and international teams to outline the proposal of a Kerry entry.

Up to six Kerry riders are expected to be part of the squad for next October’s 100th edition of the ISDE in Grandola, Portugal.

Among those being considered is Killarney’s Colin O’Donoghue, better known locally as a rally driver but with a strong off-road motorcycling background.

O’Donoghue won the modified category of the 2024 Rally of the Lakes and this year’s Laois Rally,

He made headlines in two-wheel sport in 2021 when he made the best possible start to his motorcycle racing career by winning the Expert Class in the opening round of the Pro-Ride Enduro Championship at Todd’s Leap in County Tyrone.

The 2026 Six Days will run from October 12–17 and will be based in Grandola and the wider Alentejo region, about an hour south of Lisbon. I

t marks the return of the event to Portugal for the first time since 2019. The terrain is well-known to EnduroGP competitors and is expected to provide a huge challenge for the centenary running of the sport’s oldest international off-road event.