A colourful, charitable Galway barman plans to write himself into the Guinness Book of World Records – by visiting and consuming a beverage in 85 local bars in 24 hours!

The mammoth pub crawl, on the weekend of March 31 and April 1, will bring Damien Reilly on a tour of Galway’s watering holes.

Starting in Salthill on the Friday at 3pm, the native of Newcastle outside Athenry will box-off all of the pubs in Galway City, before heading west to Connemara, stopping off in bars in Moycullen and Oughterard along the way to his adopted Clifden.

The target to beat is 78 pubs, which is the most pubs visited in 24 hours by an individual, a record set by South African Heinrich de Villiers in February last year in Melbourne, Australia.

“Pubs open to 12.30pm and then you have a few with late licences that you can do after that. You’d probably have the guts of 60 or 65 pubs done Friday night,” he said.

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