Angela, 76, abseils down Thomond Park for charity

Ireland’s first female steeplejack has completed her “last climb” at the age of 76, by abseiling out of a window 100 ft high, at Thomond Park, the home of Munster Rugby, to raise funds for charities.

Angela Collins O’Mahony, from Kilkishen Co Clare, challenged the status quo of Ireland’s male-dominated indigenous industry in the 1960s, and partnered with her husband John, to form Collins Steeplejacks, and was Ireland’s inaugural winner of the prestigious Veuve Cliquot Irish Business Woman of the Year.