Around Ireland in 24 hours

vincenzolorenzo

How do. Myself and a couple of friends were talking about this last weekend. I remember there was a (fairly crap) tv program on RTE a couple of years ago where the public would send in dares and one of them was for the two presenters (think they were comedians) to set foot in every county in 24 hours and IIRC they just missed out by less than an hour.

So do you think it could be done? What would be the best route to follow???

opinion guy

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Midnight_EG

If speed limits were waived I reckon I could do it, yeah.

Eric Cartman

Midnight_EG wrote: »

If speed limits were waived I reckon I could do it, yeah.

on a sunday , starting at 2am, from outside a city , avoiding all cities,

TestTransmission

Ive a few mates who did it with a rental

Yawns

it can be done. The lads on the tv stopped for stupid things. Messing at signs etc. Eating in chippers. Just get the food and eat in the car. Swap driver and let each other eat / rest. It can be done.

Hogzy

Eric Cartman wrote: »

on a sunday , starting at 2am, from outside a city , avoiding all cities,

That would be tough!

ToxicPaddy

Most cities have bypasses anyway, so Dublin has the M50, Cork has one too, as does Limerick, so I'm sure it could easily be done.

If started going south, you would be Wexford in under 2 hours from Dublin, then down to Cork in another 2 - 2.5 hours, Kerry would be challenge as some roads wouldn't be the best, but up to Limerick and then up to Galway would be fast enough..

I reckon if you left Dublin at say 8pm in the evening, you would be in Galway easily by say 5 or 6am.. From there it would be tough going up the west coast to Clifden, Westport, Castlebar, Sligo, Donegal..

Once you hit Derry, the road isnt too bad over to Belfast, then down to Dublin would be easy going, 2 hours at most.. maybe a bit more with traffic..

Yeah you would do it in 24 hours if you had like 4 people sharing the driving.. 1 driving, 1 navigating and the other 2 sleeping..

opinion guy

ToxicPaddy wrote: »

Most cities have bypasses anyway, so Dublin has the M50, Cork has one too, as does Limerick, so I'm sure it could easily be done.

If started going south, you would be Wexford in under 2 hours from Dublin, then down to Cork in another 2 - 2.5 hours, Kerry would be challenge as some roads wouldn't be the best, but up to Limerick and then up to Galway would be fast enough..

I reckon if you left Dublin at say 8pm in the evening, you would be in Galway easily by say 5 or 6am.. From there it would be tough going up the west coast to Clifden, Westport, Castlebar, Sligo, Donegal..

Once you hit Derry, the road isnt too bad over to Belfast, then down to Dublin would be easy going, 2 hours at most.. maybe a bit more with traffic..

Yeah you would do it in 24 hours if you had like 4 people sharing the driving.. 1 driving, 1 navigating and the other 2 sleeping..

Your sort of forgetting the midland counties there. Its not to get around the coast - its to get to all counties (hmmmm OP 26 or 32 ......indeed for that matter is Dublin one county or three ???)

squod

Pub crawl fail!

vincenzolorenzo

opinion guy wrote: »

Your sort of forgetting the midland counties there. Its not to get around the coast - its to get to all counties (hmmmm OP 26 or 32 ......indeed for that matter is Dublin one county or three ???)

32 counties, and going by county, not county council. So Dublin is 1 stop not 3, tipperary 1 not 2 etc. I'd say it could be done alright. I was looking at the map yesterday and i reckon you could get to all counties in 800 miles. So it would be a challenge to cover it in 24 hours but definitely possible i reckon

MagicMarker

Why would you want to?

TestTransmission

MagicMarker wrote: »

Why would you want to?

why not?

MagicMarker

TestTransmission wrote: »

why not?

Cos it's stupid, and a little pointless?

daveharnett

Need to stay away from the coast to catch the edges of the midland counties I think.

Starting at the kerry/cork/limerick border, google maps reckons 17 hours (think that's all 32, albiet barely entering a few of them).

Even if you're starting in dublin, i'd say you could just complete the loop from tipperary to rockchapel and still make it in 24 hours.

TestTransmission

MagicMarker wrote: »

Cos it's stupid, and a little pointless?

Not all driving is done for commuting and for getting from A to B,some of us enjoy it.

MagicMarker

TestTransmission wrote: »

Not all driving is done for commuting and for getting from A to B,some of us enjoy it.

I don't think the driving is stupid, or pointless. It's the ''within 24 hours'' which is stupid AND pointless.

Colonel Sanders

This has really got me wanting to do it. Mite try get a few friends together & take it on

daveharnett

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

This has really got me wanting to do it. Mite try get a few friends together & take it on

Ditto

TestTransmission

MagicMarker wrote: »

I don't think the driving is stupid, or pointless. It's the ''within 24 hours'' which is stupid AND pointless.

Each to their own I guess,I may go try it sometime and I'll post pics (just for you)

daveharnett

TestTransmission wrote: »

Each to their own I guess,I may go try it sometime and I'll post pics (just for you)

It's a shame, but I doubt that all of the boarder crossings would have signs.

Minstrel27

daveharnett wrote: »

Need to stay away from the coast to catch the edges of the midland counties I think.

Starting at the kerry/cork/limerick border, google maps reckons 17 hours (think that's all 32, albiet barely entering a few of them).

Even if you're starting in dublin, i'd say you could just complete the loop from tipperary to rockchapel and still make it in 24 hours.

Clonmel is in Tipperary so you wouldn't need to go as far as Tipperary Town.

daveharnett

Anybody who does it must bring a laptop, 3g dongle and post regular updates.

star-pants

Aye twas Andrew Stanley and Damien Clark did it for 'I Dare Ya'.
They tried the 32 counties, started in Brittas around 6pm, Andrew was an L plate at the time so they couldn't use any of the motorways.

Andrew said to me before they'd have done it if they'd not stopped for so long with food or doing retakes at certain places. So it can be done, you'll just be either knackered or wired when you get back lol.

Two part youtube here and here if you're interested in figuring out their route.

squod

I just tried it with aa routeplanner........... could take as long to plan the route as driving it like.

opinion guy

daveharnett wrote: »

Anybody who does it must bring a laptop, 3g dongle and post regular updates.

And a GPS methinks ? Can you make a GPS/iphone auto update to a website/googlemaps for people to track ?

daveharnett

opinion guy wrote: »

And a GPS methinks ? Can you make a GPS/iphone auto update to a website/googlemaps for people to track ?

I'm sure there's an iphone app floating about.

SV

I reckon it could be done handy enough..

impr0v

I think three guys from UCC did it recently: linky

MunsterCycling

If anyone does want to try this why not setup a Boards.ie challenge and get it sponsored for a charity

SV

MunsterCycling wrote: »

If anyone does want to try this why not setup a Boards.ie challenge and get it sponsored for a charity

lol, that intentional or?

alo1587

Friend of mine did it with 3 other lads while in garda college,they did it for charity.They had to get a stamp from every main garda division/station in that county i think.I'm fairly sure it was 26 counties though.32 could be done no bother..

MunsterCycling

SV wrote: »

lol, that intentional or?

WTF Why wouldn't it be intentional?

Midnight_EG

MunsterCycling wrote: »

WTF Why wouldn't it be intentional?

Go to Hosted>Recreation>All The Way Round.

MunsterCycling

Nah, not really that way inclined but enjoy.