Dr Shane Bergin

Now, holidays are coming and some of us may be tempted by the idea of a road trip.

Now, every road trip needs a theme, but we have you covered.

Within a single Irish road trip, you can walk through hundreds of millions of years of Earth's history, see traces of people from 5,000 years ago, visit places that connected continents and search for signals from the cosmos.

Here to plot a course for the Irish scientific road trip is physicist Dr Shane Bergen from the UCD School of Education.

Morning, Shane.

Morning.

It's the opposite of what you'd imagine.

Okay, now you're talking about early human settlement, so I presume Newgrange is on your list too.

Bogs are on your list then?

And where would you go to have a good look at something like that?

OK, we're going to stay in the Midlands and we're going to go from the bogs

To the stars.

And speaking of telegraphs, Valencia Island, lovely spot for lots, but worth visiting for scientific reasons.

And just before we go, Beara.

OK, so people know if they go to Baird, not only will they see all of that, they might even see you.

So there you go.

Shane Bergen, physicist from UCD School of Education.

Thank you so much for joining us this morning.

I'm so glad you didn't send me to the Moon.

I'd be the worst physicist to go to the Moon, yeah.