Old Galway Dublin road

obi604

Hi

In regard to the old Galway - Dublin road. I.e. before the M4/M6 motorway came in to play.

Can anyone remember the rough journey time ?

obi604

obi604 wrote: »

Hi

In regard to the old Galway - Dublin road. I.e. before the M4/M6 motorway came in to play.

Can anyone remember the rough journey time ?

Bookin ages, depending on how slow the vehicle at the front was going

punisher5112

At least 3 to 3 ½ hours if I recall.

obi604

punisher5112 wrote: »

At least 3 to 3 ½ hours if I recall.

Feck, was it that long. Painful.

TheRiverman

I remember coming home from the All Ireland Football Semi Final in 1997 when Mayo beat Offaly,took about five hours.The traffic into Enfield was a nightmare.
I used to hear people say back then that the could do Dublin to Athlone in 1hr 15mins:/1hr 20mins.Liars.

Aontachtoir

TheRiverman wrote: »

I remember coming home from the All Ireland Football Semi Final in 1997 when Mayo beat Offaly,took about five hours.

Yikes. :eek:

marno21

Aontachtoir wrote: »

Yikes. :eek:

It took 5+ hours to get home from Cork vs Limerick in July 2018. The motorways don't make much of a difference when you have *that* volume of traffic

stampydmonkey

Between 3.5 - 5 hours depending on the line of traffic infront of you. You could add a bit more depending on how long you spent in mother Hubbard's or Harry's in kinnegad : (

HeidiHeidi

I couldn't tell you the overall time for the journey, but i do remember spending over an hour on many occasions in a queue of traffic just to get into Enfield, and that wasn't on match days. Absolute nightmare.

TheRiverman

Aontachtoir wrote: »

Yikes. :eek:

Almost all of that time was from Dublin to Moate where I exited for home which is 15-20 mins from Moate.

BowWow

3.5 hours Dublin to Galway.

7.5 Dublin to West Cork, a day out of holidays each way, with 2 kids saying "are we there yet"...