Possible Clues:

• Run those out of places in Cork and Waterford, for instance
• — Cross, constellation
• Rush to NE, moving from different direction
• Train's hour late, extremely annoying — the usual reason?
• Bitter about the North, hailing from Dixie?
• Bitter about the north? You may be this!
• Ten hours travelling in one direction
• Roughly ten hours from London, for example
• U-turn from "northern"
• Of Counties Cork and Kerry, say