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Tue 08 Aug 2008The dying art of thumbing a lift
With petrol prices soaring, is it time to get the thumb out and brush up your hitchhiking skills? Brian O'Connelltakes to the road to see if he can hitch his way from Bantry to Bundoran
UP UNTIL LAST month, I hadn't stood on an Irish roadside with my thumb out for at least a decade. In the early 1990s, when I used to travel home from college in Cork to Ennis, Co Clare, nine times out of 10 hitching was my preferred mode of transport.
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