Diarmuid McAree In Conversation with Rita de Brún

Ireland’s Association for Adventure Tourism (IAAT) is hosting its 2019 conference in Charleville, Co Cork, on Wednesday and Thursday, November 20 and 21.

“Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,700 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa,” wrote Ernest Hemingway. “Close to the western summit, there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was doing at that altitude.”

Going through the village of Ballineen the other night, I was stopped by the guards.

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.

At the tender age of 23, Dr Tom Devine bid farewell to inter-county hurling. It had been on the cards.

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SHANE BYRNE likes to take on a challenge.

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

Forts and Martello towers dotted around Cork Harbour and what was once the biggest gunpowder factory in the British empire could soon be designated as Unesco World Heritage sites.

Locals in a Cork village who recently attended a charity coffee morning for a woman who was going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could never have anticipated she would become ill and lose her life on the trip, her funeral Mass heard.

The Cork woman who died while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro has been named as Majella Duffy from Rathcormac.

Latest: A spokesperson for the group trekking in Kilimanjaro said: "Irish woman aged 35 died on Kilimanjaro on July 14, 2017. She died of unknown causes while being treated to by a doctor at the scene."

No holiday buddy this year? Worry not. Michelle McBride has the pros and cons of travelling solo

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.

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. 

A teacher from Waterford has completed the gruelling task of carrying a washing machine up Slievenamon mountain in a challenge for charity.

Louise Galvin may well be the most versatile sportsperson in Ireland. She has played to an elite standard in three sports. Today, she represents her country in a sport she took up less than two years ago. But no challenge Louise Galvin faces will compare to the tragedy she suffered. No defeat will make her forget how precious life is now...

Epsom runner-up Jack Hobbs remains a strong favourite to go one better in the 150th Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby after a field of eight was declared for the Curragh showpiece tomorrow.

Going into the wilderness may seem like an American concept, but its an age-old method of restoring your natural balance, writes Claire Droney

Every home needs a command centre and if yours doesn’t have one, well, better browse on over to Canadian Jane (who claims she’s urbane) and find out how it’s done.

An adventurer and polar explorer, always on the lookout for new challenges, has become the first person to fly from Mizen Head to Malin Head by a paramotor.

Aoife ní Mhaoileoin is preparing to sail 2,400 miles across the Pacific in a boat with no engine and no sail, writes Claire Droney.

Longford man Paul Devaney caught the mountaineering bug by accident on a holiday trek to see Mount Everest in 2005. Nine years later he is back in its shadows but this time preparing to climb the highest peak on the planet as part of the seventh and final leg of an amazing journey around the world’s most challenging mountains.

As part of the First 1,000 days movement, celebrity chef Neven Maguire, right, will team up with Danone Early Life Nutrition to host a free cookery demonstration in Cork on Wednesday, Feb 5.

Work is under way to turn a treatment model devised by an Irish suicide crisis charity into a franchise after a number of countries, including the US, expressed an interest in rolling it out themselves.

Roy Keane isn’t the only ex-Ireland captain to feel the force of Alex Ferguson’s acerbic tongue as Kevin Moran is described in the new autobiography by his former Manchester United boss as a “punch-drunk boxer”.

Locals are helping to conserve the terrain for future generations, says Dan MacCarthy

GREG BUTLER is a happy and proud man. Last year, he achieved one of his life-time’s ambitions, to reach the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain.

The grieving mother of a 15-year-old suicide victim yesterday said her heart turned to stone the day her son took his own life last June.

Adventurer Ian McKeever took “the road less travelled”, mourners at his requiem Mass were told.

Veteran Irish explorer Pat Falvey believes global warming was to blame for the lightning strike which killed Ian McKeever.

Tributes have poured in for Irish adventurer and record-breaking climber Ian McKeever who was killed by a freak lightning strike while leading a charity climb on Africa’s highest peak.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has led tributes to well-known Irish climber Ian McKeever killed by a lightning bolt while scaling Africa’s highest mountain.

Mountain climber Ian McKeever has been remembered this morning as an inspiration, who was unselfish in giving his time to others.

A well-known Irish climber has been killed in a freak tragedy while scaling Africa’s highest mountain.

An Irish mountaineer has been killed by lightning while leading an expedition of Irish climbers up Africa’s highest peak.

Tributes were last night paid to adventurer Ian McKeever, after a lightning strike on Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, claimed his life.

An Irish doctor and explorer who became the first woman from this country to reach the South Pole is attempting to make history for the second time as she bids to cross the treacherous North Patagonian Ice Cap in Chile.