Her husband John became the first Clare native to conquer Mount Everest in May.

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The hotelier completed the feat in aid of Elevate, an organisation set up to help make wellness programmes available in youth organisations and secondary schools in the Clare area.

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A quirky event for all the family, including beloved dogs, is a chance to celebrate all things canine, says Helen O’Callaghan

While Aoibhín Garrihy was rehearsing for Dancing with the Stars, her husband John Burke was training to climb Everest. As he embarks on his journey, he speaks to Colm O’Connor from base camp. 

The kind of round object that Kerry GAA star Aidan O’Mahony usually grasps rarely glistens more than his five All-Ireland medals but Sunday night was different as he waltzed away with the inaugural glitterball trophy to win the final of the first series of RTÉ’s Dancing With The Stars.

"We feel that the only fair thing to do is to give them back their hard earned which will hopefully put the pep back in their step.”

Denise McCormack, Aidan O’Mahony and Aoibhín Garrihy have made it through to the final of Dancing With The Stars. Tune into RTÉ One at 6.30pm on Sunday to find out who wins the trophy.

Elvis impersonator Ben Portsmouth and up and coming Longford band Brave Giant will also be stopping by.

And then there were three... and an emotional Dayl Cronin should have been one of them but for the curse of the public vote, which once again turned a dance contest into a popularity vote.

Joe Brolly, what do you think of that?

Des Cahill has been eliminated from Dancing With The Stars.

There’ll be no more unnecessary journeys to the Dancing with the Stars studio for Teresa Mannion, after the RTÉ reporter became the latest to leave the Sunday night competition.

She was only the second act of the evening but the judges were really impressed with Aoibhín Garrihy and her partner Vitali tonight on Dancing With The Stars.

Valentine's Day is just a few days away, but that's not going to stop the contestants of this week's Dancing With The Stars from getting all loved up.

Like the best thrillers, movie night on Dancing with the Stars saw a final twist that no one saw coming as the final credits rolled for model Thalia Heffernan.

Hailing from Ireland, UK, Ukraine, Estonia and Italy they will been given the enormous task of teaching the celebs their left foot from their right.

A celebrity doctor, two comedians, two actresses, a sports broadcaster, a news reporter, a Big Brother contestant, a model, a boyband member, and a Kerry GAA player will all be putting on their dancing shoes for RTÉ’s Dancing with the Stars.

Simply stunning.

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Ireland’s People of the Year awards is 40 this year and, to celebrate, past winners Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Mark Pollock, Christina Noble, and Jane McKenna were joined yesterday by awards ambassador and actress Aoibhín Garrihy in Dublin to open the nominations campaign for the 2014 awards.

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A new family is set to make its first appearance on ‘Fair City’ in the coming week.

FAIR CITY is set to reveal on Monday the actors who will play members of a new family to be introduced to the soap ahead of their arrival in Carrigstown on September 7.