Michael Hilliard Mulcahy’s play, Beyond the Brooklyn Sky, deals with the generation that emigrated from Ireland in the 1980s and returned, some without having fulfilled their dreams.

Writer and performer Aidan Dooley has reworked his show Our Last Chieftain: O’Sullivan Beara by tapping into what made Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer so successful.

Aidan Dooley

FOUR intrepid adventurers who became the first Irish team to reach the South Pole are to be honoured by the last surviving daughter of legendary explorer Tom Crean.

Walker Cup hopefuls Simon Ward and Jonathan Caldwell will lead the chase for the East of Ireland Amateur Open at Co Louth on Saturday.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy has set his sights on Tiger Woods' course record in the Irish Close at the European Club.

Adventure seekers are queuing up to hear the tales of heroic Irish explorer Tom Crean’s efforts to conquer the Antarctic in a play which is still wowing Irish audiences almost a century later.