Re-Joyce: Riddle solved

A SOFTWARE developer believes he has finally solved James Joyce’s notorious near century-old riddle: Can you cross Dublin without passing a pub?

Re-Joyce: Riddle solved

As the country celebrates Bloomsday today, Rory McCann, 27, revealed how he has settled decades of debate about the puzzle in Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses with a simple equation proving it can, indeed, be done.

Using online maps, the Dubliner worked out a computer equation that found how to criss-cross the capital, from north to south and east to west, away from the temptation of any pub.

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