Bear Grylls Survival Academy: Could you grin and Bear it?

Deirdre Reynolds has always appreciated the finer things in life. So how would she manage at Bear Grylls’ newly-launched survival academy in County Kildare?

What happens when you drop a bunch of D4 ’meeja’ types into the Kildare jungle armed with just a knife and an empty water bottle? Tears, tantrums, and sheer terror — and that was just me.

Bear Grylls world-renowned Survival Academy has just launched at Carton House in Maynooth.