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GET TO A mystery destination but with no money. That was the challenge for 88 teams from eight Irish universities.
This year the tough ‘Jailbreak challenge’ was won by two Trinity College students - Hugh Wedlon and Ahmad Mu’azzam, who reached Lake Bled in Slovenia at 1.32pm having set off at 9am from Collins Barracks in Dublin on Saturday morning.
There was a number of new rules aimed at making the event more competitive this year.
Teams had to reach a certain location, but they also had to limit air travel to two hours at a time.
Teams couldn’t fly out of a country they flew into, they had to complete at least four charity challenges before the finish line, and they had to complete the journey without using their own money.
Trinity News reports that the two winners were the first competitors to reach Grafton Street, where they fundraised for a couple of hours.
They then bartered with a taxi to bring them to Dublin Airport.
The pair flew to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and took a TGV train from Paris to Brussels. The students then caught the 9.18am flight to Slovenia, enjoying first class seats courtesy of Wizz Air.
After arriving in Ljubljana they took a taxi to Bled, winning Jailbreak 2015 at 1pm.
So far, the challenge has raised over €58,000 for St Vincent De Paul and Amnesty International.
This is a big jump from the €40,000 teams raised in 2014.
It’s not too late to donate. You can donate by texting JAILBREAK to 50300.
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What an awful situation in a truly failed country.
Have you been there?
No different to the appalling atrocities that are carried out in Syria under our noses by Western backed “moderate” rebels.
Frank, can you not just say that it’s bad?
Or should I refer to you as abbilitive?
Declan Noonan both are bad but I must admit that the one that I mentioned is far more appalling than the other because it has been carried out in the name of democracy by a so called civilized nation.
Nobody has to go there to know what it’s like! Yes of course there are good parts like anywhere else. Slowly the cartels will take over them too! It’s people like you that know nothing about Mexico and it’s horrific violence.
Go google Mexican drug cartel images and come back here!! The tourist areas are safe the rest isn’t! When the cops are part of the problem what hope do they have prey tell.
I would not go to Mexico, even as a corpse….
Outside of the gated areas, it’s a cesspit of a country.
Probably not,but he is able to read
Humanity at its most depraved
Mexico is mental.
Homicide rate is something like 1 in 5000. In ireland that would be close to 1000 people a year.
Tragic. Young innocent aspiring students lives savagely taken away by sick, evil creatures
That’s what’s truly scary. Those were just students. The majority of killings are drug related. This wasn’t. Very strange for Mexico. Nothing shocks me over there but that really does. These new bodies will be drug related. The note says it all. The poor students were really shocking and very sad. The rest,they just kill each other over drugs and areas. Nothing new really.
We must keep these people out of Europe. All non EU immigration must be severely curtailed.
There is no z in organised. Petty and off topic i know but im not sure whats worse journalists who cant proof read or journalists who turn the country location to ireland.
Breaking bad has a lot of truth in it by the look,s of things
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