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Red Ferry, Blue Ferry: An Irish Lesson in How You Can’t Get There from Here

May 13, 2021

MICHAEL FALLON

Michael Fallon’s visit to Ireland's Aran Islands is a very funny “you-can’t-get-there-from-here” story. He arrived by ferry from Galway. Though everyone spoke English, he could not learn how to return to the mainland to catch his flight home. “There’s no ferry that goes to Galway," he was told. But how did the ferry he took from Galway get there in the first place? How would he get home?