{"id":413942,"date":"2026-04-23T19:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:17:11","slug":"a-joke-gone-too-far-how-dundalk-father-and-daughter-ended-up-on-bbcs-race-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413942\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A joke gone too far\u2019 \u2013 How Dundalk father and daughter ended up on BBC\u2019s Race Across the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dundalk native Andrew Clifford with is daughter Molly  on Race Across the World\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/630c017c-714e-4bda-b078-944bcf8c9861.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dundalk native Andrew Clifford with is daughter Molly  on Race Across the World<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWaking up not knowing where you were going, how you were going to get there and where you were going to sleep was definitely stressful,\u201d says Dundalk-born Andrew Clifford, who with his daughter Molly are among the five teams taking part in the latest series hugely popular BBC One series Race Across the World.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The show challenges intrepid travellers with completing a 12,000k journey across Europe and Asia on a shoestring budget without flights, credit cards or mobile phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dundalk native Andrew Clifford with is daughter Molly on Race Across the World \u201cWaking up not knowing where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,4277],"class_list":["post-413942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-margaret-roddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}