Pat Falvey’s new theatre show tells how a builder from the north side of Cork climbed Everest and undertook other great feats of exploration, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

I would rather quick oblivion rather than humourless survival, lectured by Bear Grylls types about how I’d be dead if they hadn’t rescued me from being caught on the door handle by my belt-loop, writes Colm O’Regan

Actress Courteney Cox has admitted that she regrets succumbing to the pressure to look young in Hollywood.

Friends star Courteney Cox may have an affection for the Emerald Isle through her Irish fiance, but don’t be surprised if she’s in no rush to come back after what Bear Grylls put her through.

BEAR Grylls might be the ultimate survivalist, but we reckon just taking on his fitness regime is enough for us.

Bear Grylls has dipped into his grandfather’s Nazi-busting past for his latest novel, says Hannah Stephenson

The plug has been pulled on an epic round-Ireland powerboat race which was due to start in Cork Harbour in just over three weeks.

The event will begin in Cork on Sunday, June 12, with in-harbour racing.

Sleek powerboats thundered around Cork Harbour yesterday during high-speed course tests ahead of what’s set to one of the most spectacular sporting events staged in Ireland this year.

An unusual sight for the people of Cobh as one of the world's fastest powerboats spent the afternoon roaring around Cork harbour.

One of the world’s fastest powerboats will roar around Cork Harbour today ahead of the launch of one of the most spectacular sporting events to be staged in Ireland this year.

Politics has always been a family matter for newly elected TD Aindrias Moynihan. Yesterday may have been his first day to take a seat in the Dáil as an elected representative for Cork North West, but he is certainly no stranger to Leinster House.

Kya deLongchamps speaks to photographer and passionate historian Tarquin Blake, about his new book Abandoned Churches of Ireland.  

The latest acting veteran who may have joined the cast of Game of Thrones is Richard E Grant, according to unconfirmed reports in the UK.

You don’t need to be a scout or an outdoor enthusiast to learn how to light fires without a match, build a shelter from basic materials or cook under the open sky, says Áilín Quinlan.           

Since quitting her full-time job, Andrea Mara realised her kids have been living cossetted lives. And so she set about being a ‘free range parent’, trying to build kids that will be ‘can-do’ adults.

USA: San Francisco has painted nine walls with a repellent material that makes pee spray back off them in a bid to tackle public urination.

TV action man Bear Grylls was at the centre of a row after his young son was left on rocks for a lifeboat training exercise.

Darren Kennedy and Jennifer Maguire presenters on The Unemployables, RTÉ2, 9pm, next Thursday.

Your guide to this evening's best TV programmes.

Tom Cruise, Tim Curry, Bear Grylls and Joy Divison

Of course he doesn't do strolling in the front door like everybody else - he's Bear Grylls.

A recent column by Suzanne Harrington stated that religions are like penises, that it’s acceptable to have them but not to think with them.

A spoiler-free guide to telly.

TV adventurer Bear Grylls has become Spider-Man as he turned his world around to recreate a famous screen kiss.

Parents do their children a "disservice" by not exposing them to risk, TV adventurer Bear Grylls has said.

Television adventurer Bear Grylls is being investigated by his local council after he erected a slide off an island which he owns.

One lucky Irishman has been selected as Outback Adventurer in Australia’s Best Jobs in the World competition.

SUNDAY afternoon, Cork airport. My daughter and I are cutting quite a shape in the departures hall. A recent diagnosis of “bulging lumbar disc” means that I’m doing a syncopated, old-lady shuffle across the foyer, while behind me, my youngest daughter makes the slowest walk across the airport concourse in the collective history of walking and airport concourses.

Explorer Tim Jarvis and his crew have just set off on the exact route across the Antarctic taken by Irishman Ernest Shackleton in 1916, right down to a replica boat and equipment, he tells Danielle McGrane

He has parachuted into some of the most inhospitable places on Earth, eaten bugs, snakes, and piranha, and slept in the stinking carcass of a dead camel.

TV adventurer Bear Grylls has left the Discovery Channel after a row over “new programming”, his publicist said today.

He has swum the English Channel and the length of the Thames, but David Walliams’ latest charity challenge should be a little easier – he is the new voice of the speaking clock.

Cameron Diaz is to learn how to survive in the wild.

Dermot O'Leary has a "man crush" on Benedict Cumberbatch.

LAST weekend’s Hennerty Sales Laurels winner Tyrur Enda will be returning to Munster for his final outings of the season after owner PJ Fahy decided to run the champion in the Red Mills Masters, which commences at Kilcohan Park on Saturday week.

IT’S not often you hear the words Bear Grylls, James Bond and metro-sexual in the same sentence, but then again being an escort at the Rose of Tralee is no regular event.

Mila Kunis spends hours playing computer games with her boyfriend Macaulay Culkin.

Channel 4 are to put three obsessive compulsive disorder sufferers in a house together for a new TV show.