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The main Dublin-Limerick road, the N7, is a relatively swift - rush hour aside - but rather dull drive from Dublin to Kildare town and the Curragh ; additionally, there's a new stretch of motorway, the M7, which runs from before Naas for about ten miles, rejoining the N7 near Kildare town. Either way, it's best to avoid rush hour: traffic along the N7 can be particularly bad heading out of Dublin on a Friday afternoon and evening, and also into Dublin on Sunday and bank holiday Monday evenings. The chief attraction at NAAS (pronounced Nace) is Punchestown race course , whose main meeting is the three-day steeplechasing event in late April, when the race course itself is greatly celebrated for its flowering gorse; a close second is Mondello Park motor-racing circuit (tel 045/860200), which holds races most weekends. If you're not content with simply spectating, for around GBP129/?163.80, you can experience the thrill of driving a racing saloon around the track. The town has little in the way of accommodation, but there's a welcoming B&B at Setanta Farmhouse , four miles away at Castlekeely (tel 045/876481; GBP33-40/?41.90-50.79). Newbridge , a nineteenth-century town which grew up around the British barracks here, is similarly unmemorable. But after Newbridge the road heads over the grassy, unfenced stretches of the Curragh, and you're into racing country proper.
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