Wicklow man eventually finds car weeks after misplacing it on Cork stag do
One Wicklow man had a 'nightmare' of a few weeks after he misplaced his car in a Cork estate after heading on a stag do.
On Wednesday, Neil Prendeville spoke with Kieran on his Cork's Red FM show, who had headed to the Rebel County on April 4 for a stag.
He parked his 2010 Skoda Superb in a housing estate in Cork before heading into the stag, parking it within a 30-minute walk of the city centre, but he subsequently couldn't remember where he left it.
The Wicklow man had been visiting the city every weekend since that fateful Friday night but hadn't been able to find it. He even checked with the pound and was also in regular contact with Gardaí.
True to their nature, the people of Cork came up trumps and the car was found within minutes of the plea going out on air on the Neil Prendeville Show, with eagle-eyed listener Susan Maguire spotting Kieran's car on Tory Top Road.
'I had a stag party in Cork,' Kieran said, speaking to Neil.
'Shout out to Spud, it was his stag. And look, I got into the city late at night and I couldn't find anywhere to park in the city.
'I got fed up of it, and I drove way out of the city, towards the south of the city. I'm not too sure how far I drove out, but I parked up in an estate.
'And since then, I haven't laid an eye on the car since. I just can't find the estate where I left the car.'
The stag took the group to some great pubs in Cork City, and down in Kinsale the next day during the glorious mini-heatwave earlier in April.
'We were in O'Dwyer's and Reardon's. We were in Kinsale as well, actually, on the Saturday, and that was phenomenal; it was really good weather back then as well. And look, there was music, ah it was ideal.'
While everyone else headed home after the weekend, one of Kieran's friends stayed with him to drive around and search for the Skoda.
'One of the boys stayed back with me and we drove around Cork. We were the guts of five hours driving around two estates looking for this car.
'I put so much hours into finding this car. It's actually the stupidest thing I've ever done. It's just been a nightmare.'
'I actually went back the Sunday and I've been down the weekends ever since. I'm actually from Wicklow myself, so I can't just rock on down to Cork every day'.
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