Category: Ireland End-to-End 2025
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Day 10: The Last Leg – Derry/Londonderry to Malin Head, 55.1k, 519m climbed
And that’s a wrap for my end-to-end of the island of Ireland. From its most southerly point at Mizen Head, I’ve pedalled 733.8k and climbed 6,858m on my way to its northernmost tip at Malin Head You’ll notice that the sun is shining again. It wasn’t yesterday for our day off in Derry/Londonderry, so we…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Irish Blessings
I do feel that the patron saint of cycling must have been on my side these past two weeks as I’ve pedalled from one end of the island of Ireland to the other I mean, who would’ve thought that, over ten days on the bike in April, passing through the counties of Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary,…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Day 9: Donegal (Rossnowlagh Beach) to Derry/Londonderry, 96.5k, 980m climbed
If I’ve learned one thing since my first solo ride, from Land’s End to John O’Groats in 2021, it’s that I need to eat more. To this day I don’t know how I got over Exmoor fuelled by little more than a mini packet of chocolate buttons and a jam sandwich. Yes Rob, you were…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Dawdling in Donegal
On a rest day, I think you’ll agree that refuelling is vital. And Ahoy Café in Killibegs turned out to be the perfect place to order our first full Irish (vegetarian) breakfast Killibegs self-identified as Ireland’s premier fishing port, and there was plenty of evidence to back up their claim Other highlights of the day…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Day 8: Enniskillen to Donegal (Rossnowlagh Beach), 68.6k, 825m climbed
Today was a bit of everything – from a rain-washed morning in a nondescript car park in Northern Ireland To a sun-drenched evening on the Republic’s Atlantic coast From the town-scape of Enniskillen, on an island in the river Erne To the landscape of rural county Fermanagh, south of Lough Erne Team Bernard experienced highs…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Day 7: Lough Rynn to Enniskillen, 59.8k, 632m climbed
When we woke, Lough Rynn was gently steaming under a dappled blue sky: Unfortunately, it didn’t last: For the first time, the sun deserted us – but not the birdsong. So let’s talk about nature.Rural Ireland seems to have many more trees, bushes and hedgerows than equivalent parts of the UK: I’ve also been sifting…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Lounging and Laundry by the lake
It was a perfect day for it: I could also add ‘learning’ to that list of L words, having read this eye-catching headline in today’s Irish Independent: The paper was one of three items Jon returned with from a mosey to the nearby town of Mohill.A pack of the enigmatically named Boxty was the second.…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Day 6: Ballydangan to Lough Rynn, 83.4k, 630m climbed
We spent a comfortable night in our modest surroundings, undisturbed by passing traffic or departing pub-goers.Like our meal last night, there was a Sardinian flavour to the weather when Team Bernard pedalled away this morning As the Green Heartlands Cycle Route sign correctly suggests, this was another day of rural views, from the beginning: Through…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Day 5: Dromineer to Ballydangan, 75.2k, 481m climbed
Lough Derg looked just as lovely this morning as it had last night. Jon braved the waters again, plunge-pool style, while a steady stream of locals dawdled in the frigid shallows, as impervious as seals. The air temperature was still a chilly 8 degrees when Team Bernard hit the road soon after 9am But look…
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Ireland End-to-End 2025 – Day 4: Rathkeale to Dromineer, 85.1k 489m climbed
Bernard spent a peaceful night outside the henhouse But we were all woken shortly after dawn by the garrulous gobblings of our hosts’ newest acquisition (just yesterday): an eight month old male turkey who was clearly so aggrieved to be rehomed with a bunch of old chooks that he escaped to the roof in protest…
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