Boreen

Sunday, 18 October 2026

Journey #006 answers

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

Question 1 · Irish life

Name an Irish radio station.

Any station with a full licence in the Republic or Northern Ireland, RTÉ and BBC NI included. UK-wide stations and trial or temporary services don't count.

Robin10 km

  • RTÉ Radio 1 (national)

Hedgehog25 km

  • Newstalk (national)
  • RTÉ 2FM (national)
  • Today FM (national)

Irish Hare55 km

  • 98FM (Dublin)
  • FM104 (Dublin)
  • Radio Kerry (Kerry)
  • RTÉ lyric fm (national)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • BBC Radio Ulster (Northern Ireland)
  • Beat 102 103 (south east)
  • Clare FM (Clare)
  • Cool FM (Northern Ireland)
  • Cork's 96FM (Cork)
  • Downtown Radio (Northern Ireland)
  • East Coast FM (Wicklow)
  • Galway Bay FM (Galway)
  • Highland Radio (Donegal)
  • iRadio (north east and west)
  • Ireland's Classic Hits Radio (Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway…)
  • KCLR 96FM (Carlow, Kilkenny)
  • Kfm (Kildare)
  • Live 95 (Limerick)
  • LMFM (Louth, Meath)
  • Midlands 103 (Laois, Offaly, Westmeath)
  • Midwest Radio (Mayo)
  • Northern Sound (Cavan, Monaghan)
  • Ocean FM (Sligo, Leitrim, south Donegal)
  • Q102 (Dublin)
  • Radio Nova (Dublin)
  • Red FM (Cork)
  • RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta (national)
  • Shannonside (Roscommon, Longford, south Leitrim)
  • South East Radio (Wexford)
  • SPIN 1038 (Dublin)
  • Tipp FM (Tipperary)
  • WLR FM (Waterford)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • ABC's YourFM (Portadown)
  • Athlone Community Radio (Athlone)
  • BBC Radio Foyle (Derry)
  • Belfast 89FM (Belfast)
  • BFBS Northern Ireland (forces radio)
  • Blast 106 (Belfast)
  • C103 (Cork)
  • Claremorris Community Radio (Claremorris)
  • Coast FM (Causeway Coast)
  • Community Radio Castlebar (Castlebar)
  • Community Radio Kilkenny City (Kilkenny)
  • Community Radio Youghal (Youghal)
  • Connemara Community Radio (Connemara)
  • Cool Old Skool (Northern Ireland)
  • CUH FM (Cork University Hospital)
  • Down FM (Downpatrick)
  • Downtown Country (Northern Ireland)
  • Dreamtime Radio (Kilkenny)
  • Drive 105 (Derry)
  • Dublin City FM (Dublin)
  • Dublin South FM (Dublin)
  • Dundalk FM (Dundalk)
  • Flirt FM (University of Galway)
  • Fuse FM (Ballymoney)
  • Greatest Hits Radio Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland)
  • Hits Radio Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland)
  • IÚR FM (Newry)
  • Juice FM Belfast (Belfast)
  • Life FM (Cork)
  • Liffey Sound FM (Lucan)
  • Near FM (north Dublin)
  • Phoenix FM (Dublin 15)
  • Q Radio (Northern Ireland)
  • Radio Maria Ireland (Catholic)
  • Raidió Corca Baiscinn (west Clare)
  • Raidió Fáilte (Belfast)
  • Raidió na Life (Dublin)
  • Ros FM (Roscommon)
  • RTÉ Gold (digital)
  • South Tipperary General Hospital Radio (Clonmel)
  • SPIN South West (south west)
  • Spirit Radio (Christian, multi-city)
  • Sunshine 104.9 (East Belfast)
  • Sunshine 106.8 (Dublin)
  • Tipperary Mid-West Radio (Tipperary)
  • U105 (Belfast)
  • UCB Ireland (Christian)
  • UCC 98.3FM (University College Cork)
  • West Limerick 102 (west Limerick)
  • Wired FM (Limerick)

Question 2 · Geography

Name a town or village in County Clare.

Any Clare place listed as a town, village or population centre by logainm.ie, CSO Census 2022, the Clare County Development Plan or Wikipedia.

Robin10 km

  • Ennis

Red Fox40 km

  • Doolin
  • Kilkee
  • Lahinch
  • Shannon

Irish Hare55 km

  • Ennistymon
  • Killaloe
  • Kilrush
  • Lisdoonvarna
  • Miltown Malbay

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Ballyvaughan
  • Bunratty
  • Clarecastle
  • Corofin
  • Doonbeg
  • Kilfenora
  • Liscannor
  • Mountshannon
  • Newmarket-on-Fergus
  • Quin
  • Scarriff
  • Sixmilebridge
  • Spanish Point
  • Tulla

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Ardnacrusha
  • Ardsallis
  • Athlunkard
  • Ballinruan
  • Ballycannan
  • Ballyea
  • Ballynacally
  • Barefield
  • Bealaha
  • Beevrack
  • Bellharbour
  • Bodyke
  • Boston
  • Bridgetown
  • Broadford
  • Caher
  • Cahiracon
  • Cappa
  • Cappanawalla
  • Carrahan
  • Carrigaholt
  • Carron
  • Clonlara
  • Clonroad More
  • Cloonanaha
  • Clooneenagh
  • Clooney
  • Connolly
  • Coolmeen
  • Cooraclare
  • Coore
  • Coosheen
  • Craggagh
  • Cranny
  • Cratloe
  • Cree
  • Creegh
  • Cregg
  • Cross
  • Crusheen
  • Darragh
  • Doonaha
  • Doonogan
  • Doonsallagh
  • Doora
  • Drumandoora
  • Drumgeely
  • Dysert
  • Fanore
  • Feakle
59 more
  • Fisherstreet
  • Flagmount
  • Fountain Cross
  • Glenroe
  • Hurlers Cross
  • Inagh
  • Inch
  • Ivarstown
  • Kilbaha
  • Kilbane
  • Kildysart
  • Kilkishen
  • Killanena
  • Killimer
  • Kilmaley
  • Kilmihil
  • Kilmoon
  • Kilmore
  • Kilmurry
  • Kilmurry McMahon
  • Kilmurry-Negaul
  • Kilnaboy
  • Kilnamona
  • Kilshanny
  • Knock
  • Knockalough
  • Knockerra
  • Labasheeda
  • Lisdeen
  • Lissycasey
  • Mauricesmills
  • Meelick
  • Moy
  • Moyasta
  • Mullagh
  • Murroogh
  • New Quay
  • Noughaval
  • O'Briensbridge
  • O'Callaghan's Mills
  • Ogonnelloe
  • Parteen
  • Querrin
  • Quilty
  • Rinnagonnaght
  • Roadford
  • Ruan
  • Shannakae
  • Shanvally
  • Skaghard
  • Spancil Hill
  • Teermaclane
  • The Wells
  • Toonagh
  • Trinaderry
  • Tuamgraney
  • Tubber
  • Tullig
  • Whitegate

Question 3 · Music & entertainment

Name a film Cillian Murphy has appeared in.

Feature films released up to October 2026, cameos and voice roles included. TV series and short films don't count.

Robin10 km

  • Oppenheimer (2023)

Hedgehog25 km

  • Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)

Red Fox40 km

  • 28 Days Later (2002)
  • Batman Begins (2005)
  • Inception (2010)

Irish Hare55 km

  • A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
  • Dunkirk (2017)
  • Small Things Like These (2024)
  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026, cameo)
  • Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
  • Cold Mountain (2003)
  • Disco Pigs (2001)
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
  • In Time (2011)
  • Intermission (2003)
  • Red Eye (2005)
  • Steve (2025)
  • Sunshine (2007)
  • The Dark Knight (2008)
  • The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Aloft (2014)
  • Anna (2019)
  • Anthropoid (2016)
  • Broken (2012)
  • Free Fire (2016)
  • How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
  • In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
  • Kensuke's Kingdom (2023, voice)
  • On the Edge (2001)
  • Peacock (2010)
  • Perrier's Bounty (2009)
  • Red Lights (2012)
  • Retreat (2011)
  • Sunburn (1999)
  • Sweety Barrett (1998)
  • The Delinquent Season (2018)
  • The Edge of Love (2008)
  • The Party (2017)
  • The Trench (1999)
  • Transcendence (2014)
  • Tron: Legacy (2010, cameo)
  • Watching the Detectives (2007)
  • Waveriders (2008, narrator)

Question 4 · History

Name a member of Shackleton's Endurance expedition crew.

Any of the 28 men of the Weddell Sea party who sailed south on Endurance in December 1914, the stowaway included. The Ross Sea party doesn't count.

Robin10 km

  • Ernest Shackleton (leader, born in Co. Kildare)
  • Tom Crean (second officer, from Annascaul, Co. Kerry)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Frank Worsley (captain)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Frank Hurley (photographer)
  • Frank Wild (second-in-command)

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Alexander Kerr (second engineer)
  • Alexander Macklin (surgeon)
  • Alfred Cheetham (third officer)
  • Charles Green (cook)
  • Ernest Holness (stoker)
  • George Marston (artist)
  • Harry McNish (carpenter)
  • Hubert Hudson (navigator)
  • James McIlroy (surgeon)
  • James Wordie (geologist)
  • John Vincent (able seaman)
  • Leonard Hussey (meteorologist)
  • Lewis Rickinson (chief engineer)
  • Lionel Greenstreet (first officer)
  • Perce Blackborow (stowaway turned steward)
  • Reginald James (physicist)
  • Robert Clark (biologist)
  • Thomas McLeod (able seaman)
  • Thomas Orde-Lees (storekeeper and motor expert)
  • Timothy McCarthy (able seaman, from Kinsale, Co. Cork)
  • Walter How (able seaman)
  • William Bakewell (able seaman)
  • William Stephenson (stoker)

Question 5 · Sport

Name an Irish golfer who has played in the Ryder Cup.

Golfers from the island of Ireland who played for GB, GB&I or Europe, 1927 to 2025. Non-playing captains and vice-captains don't count.

Robin10 km

  • Rory McIlroy

Hedgehog25 km

  • Pádraig Harrington
  • Shane Lowry

Red Fox40 km

  • Darren Clarke
  • Graeme McDowell

Irish Hare55 km

  • Paul McGinley

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Christy O'Connor Jnr
  • Christy O'Connor Snr
  • David Feherty
  • Philip Walton

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Des Smyth
  • Eamonn Darcy
  • Eddie Polland
  • Fred Daly
  • Harry Bradshaw
  • Hugh Boyle
  • Jimmy Martin
  • John O'Leary
  • Norman Drew
  • Ronan Rafferty

Question 6 · Culture & language

Name a colour in Irish.

The Irish for black, white, red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, pink, brown, grey, gold or silver. Any standard Irish word for the colour counts.

Robin10 km

  • Dearg (red)

Hedgehog25 km

  • Buí (yellow)
  • Dubh (black)
  • Glas (green)
  • Gorm (blue)

Red Fox40 km

  • Bán (white)

Irish Hare55 km

  • Donn (brown)
  • Liath (grey)
  • Oráiste (orange)

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Airgead (silver)
  • Bándearg (pink)
  • Corcra (purple)
  • Ór (gold)

Question 7 · General knowledge

Name a bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin.

Any bridge across the Liffey from the M50 crossing at Palmerstown down to the sea, as of October 2026. Road, rail and footbridges all count.

Robin10 km

  • Ha'penny Bridge
  • O'Connell Bridge

Red Fox40 km

  • Samuel Beckett Bridge

Irish Hare55 km

  • Butt Bridge
  • Grattan Bridge
  • Millennium Bridge
  • Rosie Hackett Bridge
  • Seán O'Casey Bridge

Red Squirrel75 km

  • Father Mathew Bridge
  • Islandbridge
  • James Joyce Bridge
  • Loopline Bridge
  • O'Donovan Rossa Bridge
  • Seán Heuston Bridge
  • Talbot Memorial Bridge
  • Tom Clarke Bridge
  • West-Link Bridge

Golden Eagle100 km

  • Anna Livia Bridge
  • Farmleigh Bridge
  • Frank Sherwin Bridge
  • Liffey Railway Bridge
  • Mellows Bridge
  • Rory O'More Bridge