{"id":6845,"date":"2025-08-18T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6845\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:16:11","slug":"irish-students-epic-drive-to-russia-hits-turkish-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/6845\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish students&#8217; epic drive to Russia hits Turkish roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trish McGovern, Alan Herdman, Gerard Keelan and Sean Rodahan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1f99f273-99e7-476a-a999-07d75a6b46ef.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Trish McGovern, Alan Herdman, Gerard Keelan and Sean Rodahan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A group of friends who drove from Galway to Russia in a Toyota Yaris for charity have told of how their mammoth journey saw them take on some of the most dangerous roads in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">University pals Alan Herdman, Se\u00e1n Rodahan and Gerard Keelan embarked on the Mongol Rally in July in a bid to raise money for RNLI \u2013 and for a taste of adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trish McGovern, Alan Herdman, Gerard Keelan and Sean Rodahan A group of friends who drove from Galway to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,7009,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-6845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-jessica-mercer","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}