In chapter 7 the Monagan's are on the way to Clonakilty to visit the Music Fesitval.
Apart from the difficulties David has with the roundabouts, he also realizes that the rural roads, where sheep and cows were crossing the streets where now replaced with highways. What I found very interesting was that Monagan gave us an overview where Ireland is set when it comes to driving dangerously or the rate of road fatalities. (Ireland is the seventh most dangerous place to drive on earth and has the second highest rate of road fatalities). 
He also mentions the “festival crusties”, whom he had noticed at the festival. “The crusties” are considered to be the Irish hippies, who moved to the secret spaces of Ireland’s west in the 1970s and 1980s.
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