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Saturday, 17 October 2026

Journey #005 answers

Every answer that counted, from the commonest to the rarest. Not played it yet? Play this journey first.

Question 1 · Irish life

Name a county's nickname.

A nickname for one of the 32 counties, its people or its GAA team, like 'the Kingdom' for Kerry.

Robin10 km

  • The Kingdom (Kerry)
  • The Rebel County (Cork)

Hedgehog25 km

  • The Banner County (Clare)

Red Fox40 km

  • The Dubs (Dublin)

Irish Hare55 km

  • The Cats (Kilkenny)
  • The Model County (Wexford)
  • The Premier County (Tipperary)
  • The Royal County (Meath)
  • The Wee County (Louth)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • The Big Smoke (Dublin)
  • The Breffni County (Cavan)
  • The Déise (Waterford)
  • The Faithful County (Offaly)
  • The Garden County (Wicklow)
  • The Lake County (Westmeath, Cavan, Fermanagh)
  • The Lilywhites (Kildare)
  • The Mourne County (Down)
  • The Oak Leaf County (Derry)
  • The Orchard County (Armagh)
  • The People's Republic of Cork (Cork)
  • The Red Hand County (Tyrone)
  • The Rossies (Roscommon)
  • The Short Grass County (Kildare)
  • The Treaty County (Limerick)
  • The Tribesmen (Galway)
  • The Yeats County (Sligo)
  • The Yellowbellies (Wexford)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • An Contae Riabhach (Wexford)
  • Annaly (Longford)
  • Land of Heart's Desire (Sligo)
  • Lovely Leitrim (Leitrim)
  • Mayo, God Help Us (Mayo)
  • Poor and Proud (Laois)
  • The Ardsmen (Down)
  • The Barrowsiders (Carlow)
  • The Biffos (Offaly)
  • The Black and Amber (Kilkenny)
  • The Blood and Bandage (Cork)
  • The Blue and Gold (Tipperary)
  • The Boys in Blue (Dublin)
  • The Boys in Green (Meath)
  • The Buttermilks (Limerick)
  • The Canaries (Leitrim)
  • The Capital Men (Dublin)
  • The Cathedral County (Armagh)
  • The Cattle Rustlers (Roscommon)
  • The Crystal County (Waterford)
  • The Dolmen County (Carlow)
  • The Donkey Aters (Cork)
  • The Drumlin County (Monaghan)
  • The Erne County (Fermanagh)
  • The Farney (Monaghan)
  • The Fighting Cocks (Carlow)
  • The Forgotten County (Donegal)
  • The Gentle County (Waterford)
  • The Glensmen (Antrim)
  • The Goat Suckers (Wicklow)
  • The Green Above the Red (Mayo)
  • The Green and Gold (Kerry, Leitrim)
  • The Heather County (Mayo)
  • The Herring Chokers (Galway)
  • The Herring Gutters (Donegal)
  • The Herring Pickers (Sligo)
  • The Hills (Donegal)
  • The Home of Hurling (Tipperary)
  • The Jackeens (Dublin)
  • The Jacks (Dublin)
  • The Last County (Wicklow)
  • The Leesiders (Cork)
  • The Liffeysiders (Dublin)
  • The Magpies (Sligo)
  • The Maguire County (Fermanagh)
  • The Marble County (Kilkenny)
  • The Maritime County (Mayo)
  • The Metropolitans (Dublin)
  • The Midlanders (Longford)
  • The Noresiders (Kilkenny)
  • The O'Donnell County (Donegal)
  • The O'Farrell County (Longford)
  • The O'Moore County (Laois)
  • The O'Neill County (Tyrone)
  • The O'Rourke County (Leitrim)
  • The Oriel County (Monaghan)
  • The Pale (Dublin)
  • The Plainsmen (Meath)
  • The Real Capital (Cork)
  • The Ridge County (Leitrim)
  • The Saffrons (Antrim)
  • The Scallion Eaters (Carlow)
  • The Shannonsiders (Limerick)
  • The Sheepstealers (Roscommon)
  • The Slaneysiders (Wexford)
  • The Slashers (Longford)
  • The Stone Throwers (Tipperary)
  • The Strawberry Pickers (Wexford)
  • The Stripey Men (Kilkenny)
  • The Suirsiders (Waterford)
  • The Thoroughbred County (Kildare)
  • The Westerners (Mayo, or any Connacht team)
  • The Wild Rose County (Leitrim)
  • The Yew County (Mayo)
  • The Zebras (Sligo)
  • Tipp (Tipperary)
  • Tír Chonaill (Donegal)
  • Tyrone Among the Bushes (Tyrone)
  • Wet-the-Guns (Kilkenny)

Question 2 · Geography

Name an Irish river at least 100 km long.

The 13 rivers of 100 km or more in the Ordnance Survey Ireland length table, which includes flow through lakes.

Robin10 km

  • River Shannon

Hedgehog25 km

  • River Liffey

Red Fox40 km

  • River Boyne

Irish Hare55 km

  • River Bann
  • River Barrow
  • River Blackwater (Munster)
  • River Erne
  • River Foyle
  • River Nore
  • River Slaney
  • River Suir

Red Squirrel75 km

  • River Moy
  • River Suck

Question 3 · Music & entertainment

Name a character from Derry Girls.

Named characters seen on screen in any of the 19 episodes (2018–2022). Real people appearing as themselves don't count.

Hedgehog25 km

  • Clare Devlin
  • Erin Quinn
  • James Maguire
  • Michelle Mallon
  • Orla McCool

Red Fox40 km

  • Granda Joe
  • Sister Michael

Irish Hare55 km

  • Gerry Quinn
  • Mary Quinn
  • Sarah McCool
  • Uncle Colm

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Dennis (the shopkeeper)
  • Father Peter
  • Jenny Joyce

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Aideen O'Shea
  • Aisling
  • Anna Quinn
  • Artem
  • Aunt Bridie
  • Benny
  • Big Mandy
  • Cara
  • Carlos Santini
  • Charlene Kavanagh
  • Chief Constable Byers
  • Ciaran
  • David Donnelly
  • Declan
  • Dee
  • Deirdre Mallon
  • Eamonn
  • Emmett
  • Fintan
  • Fionnula
  • Fra
  • Gabriel
  • Geraldine Devlin
  • Hans
  • Harry
  • Jackie
  • Janette Joyce
  • Jim Across the Road
  • John-Paul O'Reilly
  • Jon
  • Jonjo
  • Jordy
  • Kathy Maguire
  • Katya
  • Kris
  • Laurie
  • Madstab
  • Mae Chung
  • Maeve
  • Maureen Malarkey
  • Mike the Manager
  • Miss Mooney
  • Ms De Brún
  • Ms Taylor
  • Nicola
  • Officer Lennox
  • Officer Reid
  • Paddy
  • Philip
  • Richard the Surgeon
  • Rita
  • Rob
  • Sean Devlin
  • Sheila
  • Sister Benedict
  • Sister Declan
  • Tara
  • Tina O'Connell
  • Tomas

Question 4 · History

Name someone on RTÉ's 2010 Ireland's Greatest shortlist.

Any of the 40 people shortlisted for RTÉ's 2010 public vote to find the greatest person in Irish history.

Robin10 km

  • Michael Collins (2nd)

Red Fox40 km

  • Bono (5th)
  • Éamon de Valera
  • John Hume (winner)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Charles Stewart Parnell
  • Daniel O'Connell
  • James Connolly (4th)
  • James Joyce
  • Mary Robinson (3rd)
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Pádraig Pearse (top 10)
  • Séamus Heaney
  • Theobald Wolfe Tone
  • W. B. Yeats

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Bob Geldof
  • Brian O'Driscoll
  • Charles Haughey
  • Garret FitzGerald
  • Jack Lynch
  • Liam Neeson
  • Phil Lynott (top 10)
  • Roy Keane
  • Seán Lemass

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Adi Roche (top 10)
  • Christy Moore
  • Christy Ring
  • Colin Farrell
  • Daniel O'Donnell
  • Joe Dolan
  • John B. Keane
  • John O'Shea (founder of GOAL)
  • Louis Walsh
  • Michael O'Leary (Ryanair)
  • Noël Browne (top 10)
  • Pádraig Harrington
  • Paul McGrath
  • Ronan Keating
  • Ronnie Drew
  • Sonia O'Sullivan
  • Stephen Gately (top 10)

Question 5 · Sport

Name a county that has won the All-Ireland senior hurling title.

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners, 1887 to 2026 inclusive. Camogie, club and lower grades don't count.

Robin10 km

  • Kilkenny

Hedgehog25 km

  • Cork
  • Limerick
  • Tipperary

Red Fox40 km

  • Clare

Irish Hare55 km

  • Galway
  • Wexford

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Dublin
  • Offaly
  • Waterford

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Kerry
  • Laois
  • London

Question 6 · Culture & language

Name a book by James Joyce.

Any book of his fiction, poetry or drama, posthumous ones included. Letters, essays and later anthologies of his books don't count.

Robin10 km

  • Dubliners
  • Ulysses

Hedgehog25 km

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Red Fox40 km

  • Finnegans Wake

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Chamber Music
  • Exiles

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Anna Livia Plurabelle
  • Collected Poems
  • Epiphanies
  • Finn's Hotel
  • Giacomo Joyce
  • Haveth Childers Everywhere
  • Poems and Exiles
  • Poems and Shorter Writings
  • Pomes Penyeach
  • Stephen Hero
  • Storiella as She Is Syung
  • Tales Told of Shem and Shaun
  • The Cat and the Devil
  • The Cats of Copenhagen
  • The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies
  • Two Tales of Shem and Shaun

Question 7 · General knowledge

Name a county code from an Irish car registration plate.

Type the letters only. Any county or city code used on Republic of Ireland plates since 1987, including those retired in 2014.

Robin10 km

  • D (Dublin)

Hedgehog25 km

  • C (Cork)

Red Fox40 km

  • G (Galway)

Irish Hare55 km

  • KE (Kildare)
  • KY (Kerry)
  • L (Limerick)
  • T (Tipperary)
  • W (Waterford)
  • WX (Wexford)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • CE (Clare)
  • DL (Donegal)
  • KK (Kilkenny)
  • LH (Louth)
  • LK (Limerick county, until 2013)
  • MH (Meath)
  • MO (Mayo)
  • OY (Offaly)
  • SO (Sligo)
  • TN (North Tipperary, until 2013)
  • TS (South Tipperary, until 2013)
  • WW (Wicklow)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • CN (Cavan)
  • CW (Carlow)
  • LD (Longford)
  • LM (Leitrim)
  • LS (Laois)
  • MN (Monaghan)
  • RN (Roscommon)
  • WD (Waterford county, until 2013)
  • WH (Westmeath)