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Last traffic lights before M50 bypass (Junction 7). You can get here by buses 25, 66, 67 from Pearse Str.</lip>In the same road, 500m direction Dublin, you'll find a gaz petrol station. Perfect for this direction, you can ask people directly. It's maybe the best option for hitchhiking in this direction. You can stop at the bus stop No. 2201 (Lucan Road, Palmerstown Drive), to get there.</p></li>
Get a train from ''Connolly'' station to '''''Maynooth'''''. Ticket costs around 3 Euro. From here it is a 2 KM walk towards a M4 motorway exit to the West of Ireland. This should all take 60 minutes.</li> <li>'''Option 3'''<br/> Hitchhiker [[User:Mairead|Mairead]] has successfully hitched from Heuston Station: Go out the side door of the station (to your left if you're standing facing the platforms) and across the road. This is the N4, which leads directly onto the M4 going west. It looks like an awkward place for a car to stop, but the hitchhiker waited only 3 or 4 minutes for a lift to Athlone (April 2013).</li></ulol>
Waited [[User:Jaggana|Jaggana]] waited 2h in September 2015.
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Hitch-hiking out of Dublin is easy enough, however, you have to be outside the city and outside suburban areas. In some areas you can walk to the outskirts/countryside, but mainly you'll have to take a bus (especially if you're heading west).
If you arrived in Dublin or Dún Laoghaire ports by ferry, you should try to hitch a ride at the exit of the ferry port, as there are a lot of cars going to any part all parts of the country.
Ferry Timetables for boats between Ireland and Britain
=== North towards [[Dundalk]], [[Belfast]] ===
Since there is a new road to Belfast, there is no point in going to the Dublin Airport Roundabout. Besides that it's very dangerous to stand along the motorway.
Rather take a bus to the roundabout just outside '''Swords''' and ask the driver if he could drop you off before the traffic lights. There is enough space for a car to stop and you can thumb quite savelysafely.
You can find buses that go outside of Dublin here: http://www.dublinbus.ie
Please be warned that the motorway toll booth on the Dublin-Belfast road is NOT '''not''' a good place to stop at. Some of the management warn hitchhikers not use this facility.
=== Northwest towards [[Navan]], [[Cavan]] ===
=== West towards [[Mullingar]], [[Athlone]], [[Galway]] ===
<ulol><li>'''Option 1'''<br/>Last traffic lights before M50 bypass (Junction 7). You can get here by buses 25, 66, 67 from Pearse Str.
<li>Get a train from ''Connolly'' station to '''''Maynooth''Option 2'''. Ticket costs around 3 Euro. From here it is a 2 km walk towards a M4 motorway exit to the West of Ireland. This should all take 60 minutes. <p></p><br/li>
=== Southwest towards [[Naas]], [[Portlaoise]], [[Limerick]], [[Cork]] ===
Go to the ''Rathcoole'' petrol station on the West side of Dublin city. This can be reached by the number 69 bus from Dublin City Centre i.e. ''Aston Quay'' for around 3,30 Euro. It takes about one hour to reach this excellent spot. From the '''''An Poitin Stil Bar''''' bus stop, you walk up the motorway (the path can be found via the bar car park) for 5 minutes until you reach a petrol station on the left hand side. Many drivers going towards Cork and Limerick here. There is a toll booth after Portlaoise (Irish town 100 km away). The road divides in two in the direction of Cork and Limerick just after this facility. You can always ask somebody to drop you at the booth if they are not going the whole way (Cork bound car, but you want to go to Limerick, etc.).
=== South towards [[Wicklow]], [[Enniscorthy]], [[Wexford]], [[Rosslare]] ===
Get the Luas red line tram to the last stop ''Tallaght''. The best place to hitch is at the traffic lights just before the '''''Square Shopping Centre''''' exit at ''Tallaght Pass''. This leads on to the N81.
=== South-West from Dublin airport ===
