THE COMPLETE ULSTER WAY
By Paddy Dillon
Published by The O'Brien Press
ISBN 0-86278-589-8
Price £9.99

When The O'Brien Press and Northern Ireland Tourist Board were discussing the need for a guidebook covering the immense Ulster Way, Paddy Dillon's name came up regularly. The route had already been walked in its entirety and used in The National Trails of Britain & Ireland, Exploring the North of Ireland, and also in an Ulster Way booklet produced previously. It was time for a complete and detailed guidebook to the route, which measures an immense 665 miles (1070 kilometres), making it the longest waymarked trail in Britain and Ireland. The route research was accomplished in two visits, and proved to be considerably easier than a previous walk along the route, which was accomplished in a hefty month's walking in appalling weather. There seems to be a policy of 'benign neglect' being applied to the Ulster Way at present, whereby some people hope it will quietly disappear. This is unlikely to happen, as more and more walkers are showing an interest in it, and rising to the challenge of completing a walk that runs through some of the very best of Ulster's rich and varied landscapes. It is a great pity that the authorities lack the will to hold together a route as ambitious as this one. It stands as a monument to its creator, Wilfrid Capper, a true gentleman and a man of rare vision. The Ulster Way will always be available to the walkers of the world no matter how much the so-called consultants and mealy-mouthed bureaucrats try to destroy it. They'll have to find all the copies of this guidebook and destroy them too! In a review in TGO (The Great Outdoors) magazine, Joss Lynam said, "This is a very welcome addition to the sparse literature on the Ulster Way... the first guidebook describing the whole route."

WALK CONTENTS

North Eastern Section - Co Antrim
Walk 1 - Dunmurry to Whiteabbey; Walk 2 - Whiteabbey to Ballynure; Walk 3 - Ballynure to Glenarm; Walk 4 - Glenarm to Glenariff Forest Park; Walk 5 - Glenariff Forest Park to Ballycastle; Walk 6 - Ballycastle to Giant's Causeway; Walk 7 - Giant's Causeway to Portstewart

North Western Section - Co Derry & Co Tyrone
Walk 8 - Portstewart to Castlerock; Walk 9 - Castlerock to Formoyle; Walk 10 - Formoyle to Dungiven; Walk 11 - Dungiven to Moneyneany; Walk 12 - Moneyneany to Gortin; Walk 13 - Gortin to Mountjoy; Walk 14 - Mountjoy to Kilmore

South Western Section - Co Fermanagh
Walk 15 - Kilmore to Pettigo; Walk 16 - Pettigo to Rosscor; Walk 17 - Rosscor to Doagh Glebe; Walk 18 - Doagh Glebe to Belcoo; Walk 19 - Belcoo to Kinawley; Walk 20 - Kinawley to Newtownbutler; Walk 21 - Newtownbutler to Glenoo

Southern Section - Co Tyrone & Co Armagh
Walk 22 - Glenoo to Border Tea Room; Walk 23 - Border Tea Room to Aughnacloy; Walk 24 - Aughnacloy to Caledon; Walk 25 - Caledon to Charlemont; Walk 26 - Charlemont to Portadown; Walk 27 - Portadown to Newry

South Eastern Section - Co Down
Walk 28 - Newry to Rostrevor; Walk 29 - Rostrevor to Newcastle; Walk 30 - Newcastle to Ballykinler; Walk 31 - Ballykinler to Ardglass; Walk 32 - Ardglass to Raholp; Walk 33 - Raholp to Killyleagh; Walk 34 - Killyleagh to Comber; Walk 35 - Comber to Crawfordsburn; Walk 36 - Crawfordsburn to Stormont; Walk 37 - Stormont to Dunmurry

Donegal Section - Co Donegal
Walk 38 - Pettigo to Lough Eske; Walk 39 - Lough Eske to Fintown; Walk 40 - Fintown to Dunlewy; Walk 41 - Dunlewy to Falcarragh

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