Westport Adventure Park: Taking a giant leap of faith into a new experience

Vickie Maye embraces her inner daredevil at the new-look Westport Adventure Park — part of an ambitious €100m development for the historic house and grounds

Climbing at the new Westport Adventure Park

We are dangling, legs hanging, metres in the air. Our harnesses have been checked, and checked again. We are secure but still I grip onto the metal bar for dear life. The instructor yells up at us — pull the red cord.

My brave nine-year-old tugs at the string, releasing us. We bolt forward. We roar as, for a split second, we begin to fall towards the depths of the quarry below. And then, magnificently, we soar through the air. It’s as though we are flying.