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'''Dublin''' is the capital of [[Ireland]] with more than 500 thousand inhabitants, but together with other towns around Dublinit consists of the city centre, the urban area has more than one suburbs just outside the city, and some rural areas. Its population is 1 million citizensinhabitants. Car licence plates from Dublin have the letter D in them.

== Hitching Out To Do==Hitching out of Dublin is okay. The easiest way is to take a bus to the outskirts in any direction and try to get a ride there. Buses are quite cheap.

The majority of museums in Dublin are entirely free and definitely worth going to. Busking around the hot tourist spots requires a permit. No one should bother you on one of the small streets or busy areas outside of Temple Bar. ==Food== There are several feedings throughout the week. SAFE is on Grafton Street with food and clothes Monday and Friday nights. Fruit and veg stalls just off Parnell St have many skips full of food, go during the day and browse like a shopper. ==Sleeping== == Hitching In and Out ==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.

Be sure to have a large card with the town name you want to go to spelt correctly and shown to oncoming drivers, when at a port or a national road.

Go Since there is a new road to Belfast, there is no point in going to the '''''Dublin Airport Roundabout. Besides that it'''''. There are plenty of buses from the city centre s very dangerous to there (i.e. 16, 746) You should then follow stand along the motorway signs in .Rather take the direction of Belfast and bus 33 at the M1 motorway. Please stand on "Irish life Mall" to the grass along roundabout just outside '''Swords''' and ask the road until driver if he could drop you reach off before the traffic lights just before . There is enough space for a car to stop and you can thumb quite safely. Not too many cars entering the motorway exit. You can ask drivers for , waited almost 2h to get a lift only when the light is red. Be careful(septembre 2015).

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. If you can get to the Applegreen service station before the M1 business park (53.537758,-6.213606) way after Swords. From there, all the cars headed up north, and I barely waited 3 or 4 minutes to get a ride straight to Belfast. (Experience based on a single try the day after the centennal rebellion anniversary)

Last traffic lights before M50 bypass (Junction 7)<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 here there. Tested on Oct- 2015 by buses 25François Gobert, 66French, 67 from Pearse Strand it worked even if I waited a bit of a long time...</p></li>

* <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></li>

Get a train <li>Hitchhiker [[User:Mairead|Mairead]] has successfully hitched from ''Connolly'' Heuston Station: Go out the side door of the station (to your left if you'''''Maynooth'''''re standing facing the platforms) and across the road. Ticket costs around 3 EuroThis is the N4, which leads directly onto the M4 going west. From here it is It looks like an awkward place for a 2 KM walk towards a M4 motorway exit car to stop, but the West of Ireland. This should all take 60 hitchhiker waited only 3 or 4 minutesfor a lift to Athlone (April 2013).</li></ol>

=== 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 2 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.).[[User:Jaggana|Jaggana]] waited 2h in September 2015.

This is a great spot, if your driver isn't going far aim for junction 14 service station near Monasterevin. Cars for Limerick might offer to bring you to the toll gate at Portlaoise but from here you could easily hold out for a direct lift to Cork. === South towards [[Wicklow]], [[Enniscorthy]], [[Wexford]], [[Rosslare]] ===