Despite the gulf in class between the sides in last year’s table, Ireland U20s forward coach Colm Tucker expects Scotland to come out with all guns blazing at Musgrave Park on Friday evening (RTÉ Two, 7.15pm).

There were her two expeditions to Everest which called on ambition and a willingness to motivate herself and others on the 7,000 metres and 6,500 metres climbs.

Your round-up of all the #RWC2019 news and more

It's not even the fact that Ireland have failed again to reach a semi-final.

Waiting for the Brexit finale has been a bit like sitting in a dentist’s surgery for three years — scared of the worst while hoping for the best, yet willing to accept a modicum of discomfort to get it all over with.

Fiann Ó Nualláin follows in the footsteps of the Fianna as he explores a province’s hills and vales.

An Irish businessman and adventurer almost died after suffering a life-threatening infection in the jungles of Fiji while taking part in a 20-day adventure race.

Climbers hoping to tackle Mount Everest could in future be required to have already scaled tall peaks, undergone proper training, possess a certificate of good health and have insurance that would cover rescue costs if required.

Noah Smith In 1953, mountaineers Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed summiting of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak.

Brian O’Driscoll believes Joe Schmidt’s Ireland team can take inspiration from Shane Lowry’s Open triumph as they seek to emulate the Offaly golfer by climbing higher than ever before on the world stage.

Father of two Kevin Hayes, 56, originally from the village of Newbridge, Co Galway died a month ago on May 24, after he had descended several hundred metres from Mt Everest. He had been climbing with trekking company, 360 Expeditions.

The wife of an Irish mountaineer who tragically died on Europe’s highest mountain has said she has lost her “best friend”.

Tributes have been paid to an Irish mountaineer who died after his climbing team was caught in bad weather on the southern Russian peak of Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest mountain.

He sliced seven hours off the record, completing the equivalent of 12 marathons and four summits of Everest in six days and six hours.

Two Irishmen were among 11 killed this season on the world’s highest mountain. What draws climbers to the challenge? asks Lorna Siggins

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Katie Taylor has never been one for braggadocio but things have felt a little bit different during this, her fourth straight fight week on America’s east coast.

Irish climber Séamus Lawless fell because of a freak wind according to his friend and team leader Noel Hanna.

Shocking photographs have emerged of queues of climbers on Mount Everest.

“Too many people, too few summit windows, too many inexperienced people climbing and inadequate support” are at the heart of the high number of fatalities on Everest this season.

The Trinity professor who went missing on Mount Everest is being remembered today in his home town of Bray in Co Wicklow.

IF you happen to be contemplating a global circumnavigation by yacht, there are not many better places to consider the fascinating journey than Foynes Island, Co Limerick.

A memorial service is to be on Monday for a father-of-one who died just hours after summiting the world’s highest mountain.

Concerns are being raised over traffic jams at the summit of Mount Everest as the death toll on the mountain continues to rise.

The search for missing father of one and Trinity College Professor Séamus Lawless who had been missing since falling on Mount Everest nine days ago has been called off.

An Irish father of two has died while attempting a climb on the world’s highest mountain.

The search for Mr Lawless, from Bray, Co Wicklow has now turned into a recovery operation in an area known as the death zone where oxygen levels are very low.

Indian climber Ravi Thakar was found dead inside his tent on Mount Everest at 7,900m Camp Four in Nepal last Friday morning. Severe altitude sickness is being blamed for his death.

The search for the Wicklow man missing on Mount Everest won't resume until late next week.

The search for a missing Irish man on Mount Everest will resume in the next three days.

The search is unlikely to get back underway today as night falls on the mountain and the situation will be reassessed tomorrow morning

Mr Lawless had successfully scaled Everest along with the other Irish climbers and international mountaineers and sherpas.

Cyclone Fani has torn through India's eastern coast as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 200km/h and affecting weather as far away as Mount Everest as it approached the former imperial capital of Kolkata.

With “bird numbers plummeting”, “the insect Armageddon”, and “climate catastrophe only 12 years away”, there’s doom and gloom on the wildlife front.

Adventurer Pat Falvey has launched a new initiative to help people over the age of 50 to shift attitudes and achieve their goals, writes Margaret Jennings.

When the dust has settled, the medals safely stowed away, the question is not so much about what Irish athletes achieved at last weekend’s European Indoor Championships, but how they did it.

An Irish climber has reached K2 base camp in Pakistan ahead of his attempt to ascend the world’s second highest peak.

Maybe you’ve scrolled the length of the London Marathon in the last 5 years?

The celebrations of Ireland’s Grand Slam will continue a little while longer but even in the immediate aftermath of victory at Twickenham, thoughts were turning to what happens next.

Roger Bannister, the first man to run an “impossible” sub-four-minute mile, died yesterday aged 88.

If the power of the mind helped John Burke to top Mt Everest, can students use it to reach peak potential? writes Trish Flanagan.

The challenge is known as the world’s toughest row.

After an extended layoff due to nodules on Danny O’Donoghue’s vocal chords, the trio are back with a new album and tour, writes Ed Power.

THE relentless rolling on of time changes everything and nothing.