Irish Photo Rally 2023

13. Shannonbridge
 

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7. Templecross
 

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8. Mellifont

Was gonna do dub Kildare but it was shit light and the weather caught up with me

Half done
 

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ahh now

5 tanks i think 1350 kms
 

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3. Revallagh

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2. Clagan

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6. Carland (i thought this was the name of a scrapyard or summat not an area lol)

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5. Creaghhanroe

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25. Burp

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9. Kellyswood

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9pm belfast last night after being in kildare at 1830 :D

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so the snafu was i was gonna do an anticlockwise from belfast - antrim donegal derry tyrone THEN down

but decided i didnt wanna do memorial and do dub and collect some literary off that jockser gadgee

did squiggly from monaghan down thru meath then forgot on the way back when got to newry :facepalm

oh well - might have to arrange a dufferin to catch the last wan :D

first weekend in july maybe
 
how it shoulda been :D

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how it was :D

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oh the easons - i got an email for a pre order and thought i can catch the shop and buy it instead of waiting - got there and it was this months (i recognise that cover) got to jochs asked him for them and the one id planned to buy was already there :D - got the months the wrong way round

i iz old
 
so having snafued last week, wanted to finish it off decided to come over friday night

but found out looking for the strangford ferry via newsline for the weather :blast that they were on strike so that codsed that

went to mena honda (hursts dont do new honda anymore)

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friend in america wants to buy one of these :D doesnt know if theyre gonna being em in - he gets abused with photos and snippets :D

so it started - down towards crumlin dundrod lisburn dromara ballyward tollymore
4. Bryansford

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then 3 hours sat here drinnking tea

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home at 8 sleep till 1130 then went back to sleep and up half an hour ago :blast

mold
 
No

Go this way :D
 

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If the weather is reasonably good Wednesday is a run out with the mostly pensioners of the Ulster Section.
Nobody turned up yesterday, so decided to add a few miles on the new bike.
Unknowingly the Garmin had decided it wanted to run in the Adventure mode which was how I found myself on the M1 and Drogheda instead of near Collen.
Bumpy run took me onto the maternal homelands around Dun a Ri / Kingscourt.
Thought of calling on the Aunt and cousins but didn't as their hospitality could be overwhelming.
Time to head home.
My route took me back to Carrickmacross passing by Magheracoole where my maternal grandparents are interred in separate graves. My grandfather Duffy let a destitute man be buried in what would be his grave and my grandmother nee Farley refused to be interred with a stranger.
Two aunts are with their mother.
There was a famous battle at the Church I learnt from following up on a seeing a road sign.
Onwards from Carrickmacross towards Keady for the third photo and then Armagh, Portadown where I decided not to go to the Guzzi dealer, McCrum, and home by the motorway, the other M1, and the A26 with its usual slow moving tractor and trailer leading a growing crocodile of trucks and cars all overtaken by a nimble Guzzi and aged rider.
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........My grandfather Duffy let a destitute man be buried in what would be his grave and my grandmother nee Farley refused to be interred with a stranger..........

Wise woman. Lying there, not knowing the destitute's spiritual beliefs - or lack of same - would leave a body stiff with fright.
 


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