CONSULTANTS based at Cork University Hospital have asked Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin to change his position and support plans for a €250m co-location hospital on their campus.

NOT a lot of people know this, but Mount Everest is barely the size of a half-decent snooker table. Clare O’Leary discovered that for herself yesterday when she became the first Irish woman to scale the world’s highest peak.

FOR a man who has crested the world’s tallest peaks you would think Pat Falvey might have little trouble climbing onto a two-foot platform to wave to well-wishers.

THEY don’t encounter too may puc fadas in the vicinity of the Himalayas, let alone the top of the world.

ONE of the two women members of Ireland’s Everest team withdrew from the climb yesterday after succumbing to a stomach bug.

A CLIMBER on the Irish Mount Everest expedition is recovering in hospital after a near-death experience.

IT may be sunny at home, but members of an Irish team climbing Mount Everest are praying for better weather to help them reach the summit.