Melvyn Entered his 4th rally in his Subaru S11, the 2008 Galway Summer Stages Back alongside Limerick man Sean Mullally.They got off to a steady start lying 3rd after the opening loop 20 seconds behin rally leader Patrick Elliott in a newer subaru Melvyn having nade the wrong tyre choice, over the next loop melvyn lost a further 40 seconds with the wrong tyre choice and the water injection playing up. At the last service all was sorted as melvyn and Sean took 3 fastest times and finishing a creditible 2nd, 39 seconds behind the newly crowned Dunlop National irish champion Patrick Elliott.Video:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XepHcARk314

Melvyn Entered his 3rd rally in his Subaru S11, the SGC printing Harry Flatteters rally on Epynt co-driven by Gareth "Jaffa" Roberts. After Ss1 they had caught and passed the car in front John Dalton's Darrian T90 GTR and built up an impressive 36 second lead over Peter Lloyd the 11 mile test,and after spinning on Ss2 he still took 12 seconds from 2nd place who was now Cole, Melvyn held a 48 second overnight lead after 22 miles of rallying. Over the 3 morning tests Melvyn opened a lead of over a minute, but in service after ss5 the car refused to re-start and Melvyn was forced to retire. The problem is thought to be a broken Circuit breaker. Video : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b0_2JoZ2FXI

Melvyn & his regular navigator Sean Mullally won the 2008 Rdp commercial lawyers welsh rally by over a minute over John Dalton, the original margin was 32 seconds but dalton was hit by a 30 second penalty for hitting a bale but it didn't affect their overall position, however Melvyn won his 1st event in his new car wich made him very happy.

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Joint 2nd on the 1st stage with Gareth McHale, 3rd after stages 2 & 3, but unfortunately retired at the beginning of stage 4 with a transmission problem.

Melvyn was lying 12th O/v going into the 13th stage but with loss of engine power he was forced to pull out of the rally.

This would have been Melvyn’s first rally in Ireland in his new Subaru S9 WRC. Hope were high for a good run. After the first two stages the Subaru was in 3rd place, however on the 3rd stage the car developed a problem with lack of power, the fault found to be a blown turbo pipe which ended the rally for Melvyn.

First rally of the new year, Melvyn was car 1 with regular navigator Sean Mullally, - who has never been over Eppynt before, - the weather was very wet, with a lot of standing water, making conditions dangerous. Even though Melvyn officially won the rally, with 31/2 minutes clear, the first six cars were excluded for not being able to supply a fuel sample at post event scruiting.  The fuel fiasco still continues.

Melvyn managed to secure 7th place overall in this years Cork international Rally.