An Australian has raised €3,300 for charity in what he believes is Ireland's longest pub crawl.
Tim Goodacre (25) walked into the most northerly pub at Malin Head, Co Donegal, last evening shortly after five o'clock, exactly 52 days after setting out from the most southerly, Danny Mike's bar on Clear Island in Co Cork.
He walked the whole way, stopping for a drink at every pub that was open as he passed. Farren's Pub, his last stop, was the 238th bar on what Tim reckons was a 1,500km trek, nearly all of it done with a stuffed donkey called Asal on his back.
Tim did the pub crawl to raise funds for the worldwide Donkey Sanctuary. He said he was not sure exactly how far he had walked.
"It certainly wasn't a straight line but that had nothing to do with the amount of drink I had. I had no pre-planned route. Each time I stopped I simply asked locals for directions to their next favourite pub. It meant I zig-zagged a lot."
Tim, from Perth, Western Australia, prompted end-of-journey celebrations when he walked into the Seaview Tavern near Malin Head yesterday afternoon.
Then he realised that Farren's, just across a narrow inlet, was the most northerly by about 20m. So there was a second set of celebrations when he carried Asal into Farren's a couple of hours later.