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Post by skelly »

anyone heading to donegal for mtm from around dublin, the N4 heading to silgo an donegal is the best road at the minute.all the bad town r mostly bye pasted now. the other way M1/N2 is good till you cross the boader, there is alot of road works goin on at the minute,espicelly head up on friday afternoon can be a nightmare..not much differance in time or miles goin N4


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I'll be going from Enfield but having decided which route to take. Is any of the "micks" giong.
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Post by BlackSe7en »

ZAKGT and Woody are travelling together ( at this moment in time ) and fighting over who's Mini to take. So they will be leaving via either Maynooth or Drogheda.
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Post by Billy »

Aim to be in Malin for around 6.30pm. Don't forget there will be Friday evening traffic no matter what route you take.

Collect a key from your digs and head to the Malin Hotel for 7pm. Sign-in starts at 7 and the Drivers Briefing is at 8pm.

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Post by woody »

Will it be an early night like in '99?
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Post by kerryminigringo »

I was thinking of heading up through monaghan and omagh from dundalk but I,ll be leaving early due to 850 power.

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Post by Merlin »

I have been down in Stranolar all last week and all the week before and have taken the sligo and monaghan omagh road and by far the quickest and best road route is monaghan omagh, aughnacloy road. Might meet up with you again Aidan for this one :lol:
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Post by kerryminigringo »

No problem Paul,my number is 087 2309324,give me a ring before friday and we can arrange something.I know some people do not like travelling in convoy and prefer to do their own thing but if there is anyone else out there who are travelling up on Friday on this route and would like some company,post here.

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Hi i'll been heading up on friday morning but don't know what way yet.
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Post by Mini Ha Ha »

Was talking to a friend who commutes from Derry to Dublin each week.

He goes M1 to Dundalk, then Blayney Monaghan Aughnacloy etc to Derry.

I will probably choose to avoid the Motorway and go Slane Ardee Blayney, a good early start and save the car for the real day.

Thinking of which the squaw is in the navigators seat, do we need much in the way of maps or will we get a route card for the trip south.

See you on the day if our luck and the by-pass hose holds

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Post by joebe1 »

Anybody going up through Sligo ,if so what time?
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Post by The Marcos Graveyard »

[quote="Mini Ha Ha"]Thinking of which the squaw is in the navigators seat, do we need much in the way of maps or will we get a route card for the trip south.[/quote]

Each car will get a Route Book, which has all you need to know about your directions for the journey. It contains direction of every junction that you need to negotiate along the way, there is also a tulip diagram of the layout of each junction showing where you are comming from and where you need to go, (for those of you unfamiliar with "Tulip Diagrams", Billy will be giving a master class on their useage as part of the drivers briefing on Friday), It also contains the distances between junctions and the total distance at each junction.

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Post by Billy »

For next year, we are thinking of only giving every 5th Mini a routebook. By God, that'll keep ye awake!!!!!!!! We'd have a lottery on the Friday night and if your number was pulled, you'd get a routebook.

Any other devious suggestions gratefully accepted.

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Post by woody »

"Thinking of which the squaw is in the navigators seat, do we need much in the way of maps or will we get a route card for the trip south"

You got a squaw that can read a map!! Lucky man.

Trip south is easy just follow the sun.
Haven't decided on route yet but looks like longford anyway.
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Post by pick up man »

Myself and Skellywill be heading up though Silgo but having a time as yet.
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Post by joebe1 »

8) give me a call on 0879061454 when u know what time ur heading & we might go up together!
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