By Joe Barrett They traveled from as far as Kilkenny and Dublin to join Michael G. Phelan at the launch his book of his epic 100-day journey on the rivers of…
If you thought you spotted Dáithí Ó Sé thumbing a lift at the crack of dawn in the Galway countryside recently, cancel that Specsavers appointment. The nation’s favourite Gaeilgeoir was indeed transported back to his backpacking days after his well-travelled car finally gave up the ghost, leaving him stranded on the side of the road in Aughrim. But that wasn’t going to stop the host-with-the-most completing the 227km cross-country schlep to the set of our exclusive cover shoot to herald the return of the Rose of Tralee after three years. “The last time I was hitching at six o’clock in the morning, I bet you I was heading home from someplace. How life has changed,” laughs the Kerryman of the misadventure.
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