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TedFest 2025: YPT Go Back To Inis Mor
At Young Pioneer Tours our motto is “destinations your mother would rather you stay away from”. This usually entails places like Syria, Iraq, or North Korea, but what would your mum think of you attending TedFest? Well after successfully attending in 2023, YPT are again going back and again have exclusive rights to sell both tickets and the hotels for a limited time.
For the uninitiated TedFest is a festival celebrated every year on the remote Irish island of Inis Mor, with the festival being an overall homage to everything Father Ted! If you do not worship, or have not heard of Father Ted then this tour is probably not for you. If on the other hand you are as big a fans as we are, then read on as this trip is truly bonkers! – You can read about our 2023 experience here.
Essentially every year people, which can reach up to 350 gather on a cold wet Irish island to dress up and generally celebrate all things Father Ted, or as they put it themselves;
‘So we’ll meet every year, when the weather’s shite, on a small island in the Atlantic.’
TedFest 2025……
The itinerary includes a night out in Galway, a 90 minute ferry, or a charter flight to Ted’s island and then three days of Father Ted based fun. This includes talent shows, dance off’s, tribute bands and even blind dates. We may go to some off the wall places, but this is probably our whackiest tour yet.
And the organisers like YPT so much, they have not only given us a great deal, but have given us the right to pre-sell the tickets before they go on general sale! Yes, you can only book this tour currently through YPT!
Wednesday 6th March – Galway, Ireland
- Arrival at your convenience into Galway
- Pre-tour meeting and get-together with YPT guide and other travellers at the lobby of our centrally located hotel at 6:00pm to go over the tour itinerary and plans for the coming days.
- Head out for a walking tour of the city, which with the tone of this tour will inevitably lead to a pub crawl around Galway – one of the absolute best in Europe!
- Overnight in Galway
Thursday 7th March – Galway – Rossaveel – Inis Mor
Morning
- Breakfast at hotel
- Depart on our 9:30am bus to ferry port of Rossaveel
- At 10:30am we board the 90 minute ferry to Inis Mór – the largest of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay.
- On arrival we’ll be picked up and transferred to the Aran Island Hotel, our home for the next 4 nights, as well as the host for the large event.
Afternoon
- Lunch at the hotel
- Tour of the island, despite it being cold and indeed winter on an Atlantic island, we do not let this put us off. We will visit the small museum illustrating the history of Dún Aonghasa, the Aran Sweater Market, probably a church before finding a pub where we can listen to people speak Irish, eat and enjoy some liquid delights.
- Overnight at Aran Island Hotel
Friday 8th March – Inis Mor
Morning
- Breakfast at hotel and let the TedFest begin!
- 11:00am Tai Chi with Chris P. Duq
12:00pm The Socially Undistanced Athletics
Afternoon
- Lunch at the hotel
- 2:00pm Matchmaking with Nellie
- 3:00pm Ted’s Got Talent
- Dinner and drinks at the hotel
- 10:00pm Fr Joe Dolan
- 10:30pm Priest’s Dance Off
- 11:00pm The Craggy Island Celili
- Overnight at Aran Island Hotel
Saturday 9th March – Inis Mor
Morning
- Breakfast at the hotel
- 10:00am Yoga with Sr Buddhini Mankini
- 11:00am Craggy Island’s Fittest Family
Afternoon
- Lunch at hotel
- 1:00pm Craggy Cup Presentation
- 2:00pm Blind Date with Eoin McLove
- 3:00pm Bad Ambassadors (Divine Comedy Tribute Band) 5pm Line Dancing with Fr Martin
- Free time and dinner at hotel
- 7:00pm The Best Dressed Awards
- 10.00pm The Reverse Wheel of Death
- 11:00pm The Lovely Girls
- Midnight Aftershow with Daft Kuntz
- Overnight at Aran Island Hotel
Sunday 10th March – Inis Mor
Morning
- Breakfast at the hotel
- 10:00am The Pan Asian Zen-Off
Afternoon
- 1:00pm The Screeching Competition in a Very Dark Cave
- 2:00pm The Comedy Crack Den
- 7:00pm The Annual Fr Norman Coates’ TED Talk The Craggy Island Plague of 1992
- 8:00pm The Prizeless Quiz
- Dinner at the hotel
- 10:00pm Three Burka & Balaclava Ball
- Midnight Hide a Nun & Seek
- Overnight at Aran Island Hotel
Monday 11th March – Inis Mor
Morning
- Breakfast at hotel
- Board the 8:15am ferry back to the “mainland”, or alliteratively we take an 8 minute prop plane back!
- 9:00am bus back to Galway
- End of TedFest, YPT can provide advice on accommodation and flights, as well as currently working on a great extension – watch this space!.
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