The Art O Neill Challenge is an arduous trek from Dublin Castle in Dublin city centre to the Glenmalure Valley in south Wicklow, re-tracing the escape route of Art O Neill and Red Hugh O Donnell in 1592.

500 hardy souls signed up for the 2012 challenge and left Dublin castle on Friday night in three groups, the walkers at midnight and those running all, or part of the way, at 2.00am and 1.15am respectively.

The route stayed on tramac and frosty roads as far as check point 1 at Kilbride Army camp and then headed cross country to Checkpoint 2 in Glenbride for breakfast! All that was left then was a hike over to Glenmalure via Art's cross

The race photos have been broken up into galleries covering different sections of the race in chronological order:

1. Pre Race and Walk Start (21.30Hrs - 00.01Hrs) here.
2. Dubilin Castle, midnight till 2.00am (00.03Hrs - 02.04Hrs) here.
3. First road section up to CP1 (02.16Hrs - 04.11Hrs) here.
4. CP2 Saturday morning part 1 (06.48Hrs - 08.46Hrs) here.
5. CP2 Saturday morning part 2 (08.46Hrs - 09.29Hrs) here.
6. CP2 Saturday morning part 3 (09.30Hrs - 10.06Hrs) here.
7. Finish back up table track (10.37Hrs - 12.13Hrs) here.
8. Table track (12.17Hrs - 13.18Hrs) here.
9. Table track back to the Finish (13.21Hrs - 14.44Hrs) here.
10. The Finish (14.45Hrs - 15.34Hrs) here.

11. Glenmalure valley camera II (09.00Hrs - 14.50Hrs) here.

We took around 3,000 shots on Friday and Saturday so if don't see yourself in one of the galleries or there's a shot with you half hidden behind someone else mail us with the file name and we'll see what other shots we have.