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You can find buses that go outside of Dublin here: http://www.dublinbus.ie
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→Hitching In and Out
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 the bus 33 at the "Irish life Mall" 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 safely. Not too many cars entering the motorway, waited almost 2h to get a lift (septembre 2015).
=== West towards [[Mullingar]], [[Athlone]], [[Galway]] ===
<li>Last traffic lights before M50 bypass (Junction 7). You can get here by buses 25, 66, 67 from Pearse Str.
<p>In the same road, 500m direction Dublin, you'll find a 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. Tested on Oct- 2015 by François Gobert, French, and it worked even if I waited a bit of a long time... </p></li>
<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. <p></p></li>
If you want to travel quickly from Dublin airport towards Cork or Limerick, you should do the following. Take the 'Dublin Coach' service from the bus depot towards Portlaoise (ticket costs 5 euro and trip takes 30 minutes). Ask the driver nicely to drop you off at the bus stop on the motorway near the '''''An Poitin Stil Bar'''''. The bus driver should help you, especially if you keep your bags on you and not in the side compartment of the coach. When you get off the bus, 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. There is a toll booth after Port Laoise (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.).
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