Michael’s taken on a guided tour of Wexford town in programme four before a night at the races in Enniscorthy. From Enniscorthy it’s north to Carlow, Michael’s 14th county. By now it’s day 41. He overnights in Castle Durrow, County Laois, then it’s onwards to Kilkenny, Ireland’s smallest city and, until the 12th century, the capital of the country. Nowadays it’s better known as the home to the St. Francis Abbey Brewery and the country’s top hurling academy – St. Kieran’s College. From Kilkenny it’s off to Tipp where the first action of the Irish Civil War took place in 1921. It’s a county with a split personality. It has two county capitals – Nenagh to the north and Clonmel to the south. Are they separated by mere miles or mentalities? Michael intends probing.
