 tomorrow and they are travelling down to Dingle. There's no big deal in travelling down to Dingle this journey I've made a few times in the last year. But the thing is, they're doing it on horseback. And they're raising money for the Ronald McDonald house and the Keynes kennels. The two are Shane Barry and John Doherty. John just out the road and cool boy and Shane from Slaggo and they're doing it in memory of baby Aria Rose, daughter of Shane and Tracy. So gentlemen, you're both welcome to the show. Thanks for coming in for a wee chat. Thanks for having us. It reminds me that is it the rubber band? It's in the horse outside. There's no horse outside. No horse outside today. Tell me about the background. Tell me about Aria Rose. Well, Aria was born with some complications and a severe syndrome. She had six holes in her heart, polymagic gyro, hydrocephalus. But basically we spent 16 months in hospital all our life and most of them spent 16 months we spent in Ronald McDonald house which was it was a great place for us because it was somewhere for us to go like yeah yeah and that's the house that's the house for families of people who need long or children who need yeah in Cromland okay and so there you were for the first 16 months you and Tracy and the dog two dogs that we have Yogi and Francie Keans Kennells are another part of Cromland that have just recently got going so I think we were one of the first people that they kept long-term usually a short-term say it stays to bring the dogs up to visit the children and they come to your house collect the dog bring it to Dublin DSPCA check it out make sure everything's alright and then to take it over to the hospital and they can spend the day with the kids and then they'll take it home again for you so they provide a great service and this case it meant that you guys were able to be near your dogs and take that out for a walk yeah we got to go out it was once a week twice a week sometimes we got to go we could go anytime we wanted but with things in the hospital it was usually once or twice a week we got to go and get out at the hospital for a couple hours take the dogs for a walk and just meant we weren't relying because the neighbors are great at home but it wasn't fair on them to be relying on them for 16 months looking after them so Aria Rose's life was short but you wanted to try to you know give something back hence raising the money for Ronald McDonald House and Keans Candles and doing it in an unusual way and well how does John come into the picture here John's just a good friend of ours and we were I think it came about maybe last January or February we're out together and we said we'd like to do something different so I came up with this yeah and I thought at the time I thought I know it sounds like it sounds okay I didn't really think it would get this far you know a couple of fellas are chatting like you know love to do something and she and kept coming back and kept coming back and I got stronger and there was more things being organized and more thing and I was like this is happening and you know it's it's a big undertaking but the thing that I keep saying is every time you say it to someone they said oh that this can't be done early and it brings it back to Aria Rose Aria Rose proved the doctor's wrong time and time again that she wouldn't know she wouldn't make another week or another day so what she and come up with is something that's it seems unachievable but what's the plan and then all the organization is going to happen it's going to happen you know started as an idea has now become a reality yeah so you're you're heading off tomorrow on horseback you know to do a to do a run or a cycle or whatever or a motorbike rides you know relatively straightforward and comparison having to take two horses all the way yeah I mean that that entails for a start they're they're overnight yeah where are they we have yeah we have all accommodation sorted the whole way yeah accommodation and rest days for us and for horses and relief horses and stuff like that just kind of things that makes it easier because we're not athletes we're we're we're just too ordinary Joe Soaks is gonna you know around the road and like Shane's an experienced horseman I'm just relatively new this in the last couple of years so it's a it's a massive thing for me to do you know but horses are unbelievable you know and if you ever get a chance you should you should give it a go yeah well I'll do another note but I certainly don't take one to Dingle no so you mentioned their replacement horses so it's not gonna is it gonna be the same two horses or that will be the two horses starting maybe finish yeah we have we have four horses so yeah we want to probably the horses to start they'll be there to finish you know so kind of give them a break along way and and even like it's all I presume it's all mapped out now and places the stage you mentioned there and it's mostly back roads is it yeah mostly back by roads and not there's no more ways and we'll have to go the main road the whole way to go with it and then we're going down along the coast true clear into Curry and on to Dingle why Dingle well it's just usually we go to Dingle every year for the horse racing and it was just I don't know I just came up with an idea don't you go to Dingle yeah one end of the road yeah yeah and and what about saddle horse well huh I bought myself a pair of cycling shorts of a bit of extra you might need to pair yeah we have a contingency yeah we have a we have a team behind us yeah we couldn't really do it without them we have Tracy is going to be she's our support support yeah and without that without without Tracy doing that we couldn't do this like we if we didn't have people supporting us and along the way at least you know you're not on your own you know you have that kind of backup if you need it you know and and you do need the support I mean it was just something simple as you know getting the horses fed I'll get them yeah getting them watered and yeah at night whenever we're putting everything away like I just can't just jump off the horse and head into the pub as I would like to you know and where will the horses be overnight and have you managed to source places where the horses yeah well she and she very resourceful when it comes to that kind of things very resourceful right with a lot of contacts yeah a lot of car isn't the horses for years so like throughout the country there's not a lot of I'm kind of shocked at kind of the way this has come together because I'm like there's no way but yeah not it's pulled out to stop some we've kind of got a lot of and there's a lot of places when to stop along the way to you know and meet up with certain people you know horse groups and stuff and you know so it's not gonna be a gallop the whole way then oh definitely not not there'll be a few water and holes to stop on how long how long are you expecting to take we're looking at two weeks and that's including the rest days and we'll have checks along the way we have Keynes Kennins has a vet Emma Plant she's from Longford she's going to tie in with us along the way and we have our blacksmith David Timlin and he has other blacksmiths throughout the country contacted so if we need shoes or anything that he'll he'll be there on hand to get us out and yeah because it's a lot of miles for them so who's you know you them things do you have to be checked the horses is the number one priority like we we can we can manage it so we know when we're not right they'll be they'll be better after maybe yeah yeah I can guarantee it yeah yeah and you head off what time tomorrow we're leaving Swinney Spire tomorrow there from 12 get yourself set up there's gonna be face painting for the kids and they can meet the horses and all of the all of the above you know so hopefully the weather is as good as today I'd be brilliant yeah yeah hopefully it'll hold out because weather's been so bad yeah this last month so you'd be hoping that you know to get better yeah yeah we put this way we've stocked up in the wet gear and could well be needed yeah and all the way I've either you'd ever done for something like this you know like maybe in the form of a cycle or nothing really though but I don't have marathon there a few weeks ago as my big it's the longest kind of thing I've ever done you know and I think that was manageable and comparison and comparison to this you know yeah yeah well you know there's been a long lead in and I'm sure a lot of talking a lot of planning so and now you know now that it's come to be and it's happening tomorrow how do you feel? I haven't really talked about that but my feelings I've asked today to get definitely getting excited both you know also your concerns you're making sure everything you have everything with you I have dogs at home and getting them locked after and you know you're not gonna be there so and plus I have my own business so making sure everything's okay there before you go and but now when it comes to the Reddit excitement more than anything you know what that's what yours yeah excited now yeah I suppose there's a lot of planning and even as John bought myself John work full-time so we had to have we have other help on the side without them we couldn't have achieved this because they were helping to exercise horses all the time and looking after them so and all in memory if your little daughter so how could I can people support this is there is there a go for me page or a website right we have an I donate page goes directly to Ronald McDonald Key and Kenan's it's I donate areas don't he go to Dingle Trek and we also have buckets we've buckets along the way likes the Sweeney's and we'll have buckets collecting as well and that's all it's on so on Facebook as well area roses areas adventures at areas adventures and it's on all of our shame Barry's Facebook page and my page and Tracy's page well so there's plenty of places they can look up on Facebook and I think just click in the link and they can get there and actually it's a full-back story on area rose and their journey as well so it's nice we read up on that as well so it starts tomorrow morning and you head off from Sweeney's in Balirain here now to Kenny yeah whatever the weather's like whatever you go we go heading down to Dingle yeah all right well listen I wish you both the very best and and hope it all goes goes to plan and hope you raise a lot of money along the way thanks for coming in for me thanks for having us a brilliant