His car broke down near the village of Aughrim in Galway and he relied the help of passer-by on the motorway to bring him to the nearest train station in Ballinasloe so he could travel to Dublin for photoshoots ahead of the festival.
"I was packed for two days of photoshoots and so on, and all of a sudden I come to a place called Aughrim in Galway, out in the middle of the country and my car dies. "So, yeah, when I made the decision to go hitching I was like this is great. I was like ‘you know this going to be a bit of fun.’ "But there was no one hurt which is the main thing. Because I could have been creamed by two trucks, one behind me and one coming the other way."He said: "I am nervous if I am unprepared and that’s no matter what I am doing. But like for the Rose of Tralee you are so prepared, that you couldn't be nervous.