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.

A man who claimed thousands of pounds in disability benefits despite climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, winning a triathlon and competing at the Phoenix Winter Games has been convicted of fraud, prosecutors said.

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."

A Corkman who has never run a high-altitude marathon in his life will attempt one of the world’s most gruelling ones in the Himalayas next month in an effort to raise money for the victims of last April’s Nepal earthquake.

A couple have jump-started married life by holding their wedding on a bungee jump platform and then leaping 40 metres on the same cord.

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A nine-year-old boy has become the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina’s Aconcagua mountain, which at 22,841 feet is the tallest peak in the Western and Southern hemispheres.

THREE sporting cheers for satellite and cable networks, and for the internet. Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling final will be seen by millions worldwide.

Mountaineers should be banned from climbing Everest using oxygen, because they are “diminishing the adventure” and “achieving nothing”, actor Brian Blessed said today.

Three West Cork students have been honoured for their outstanding voluntary work at an All-Ireland youth awards event.

A community awards scheme inspired by the floods which devastated a West Cork town last summer had to be postponed — ironically, because of fresh flooding fears.

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

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of the Wicklow mountaineer, Ian McKeever.

A huge crowd of mourners is expected to attend the funeral of Ian McKeever this morning.

The body of mountaineer Ian McKeever will arrive back in Ireland this morning at about 11am.

The body of mountaineer Ian McKeever, who died after he was struck by lightning as he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro last week, is to be returned to Ireland on Friday.

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 Irishman has died after being struck by lightning while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Take That star Gary Barlow said he was “deeply proud” after returning to Buckingham Palace yesterday to be awarded his OBE by the Queen.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are honeymooning on safari.

They aim to become the first Irish father and son to climb Africa’s highest mountain together and in the process raise funds for a charity which transports cancer sufferers from West Cork to Cork University Hospital for treatment.

Model Rozanna Purcell was crowned the first winner of Celebrity Come Dine With Me Ireland earlier this year. “I love cooking and I knew I’d produced an excellent meal,” says the 21-year-old, who was up against Brian Kennedy, Paul Martin, Noel Cunningham and George McMahon.

Four Irish catwalk queens have told how they felt on top of the world when they made the agonising slog to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has brushed off claims he fell asleep during a jobs announcement by a world-leading pharmaceutical firm.

Donations are continuing to pour in to a charity in memory of an “inspirational” runner who collapsed and died during the London Marathon.

A dog has been spotted on Mount Kilimanjaro.

AN 11 year old from Tipperary has become the youngest girl to scale Africa’s highest mountain.

An 11-year-old from Co Tipperary has become the youngest girl to scale Africa’s highest mountain.

A CLIMBER is appealing to Taoiseach Enda Kenny to directly intervene after the authorities thwarted his attempts to become the fastest man to scale Africa’s highest mountain.

An Irish climber is appealing to Taoiseach Enda Kenny to directly intervene after authorities thwarted his attempts to become the fastest man to scale Africa’s highest mountain.

AN IRISH climber is making final preparations before a gruelling attempt to become the fastest man in the world to scale Africa’s highest mountain.

Newcastle target Neil Taylor has committed his future to Swansea by signing a new four-year contract with the Barclays Premier League newcomers.

RECORD-BREAKING mountaineer Ian McKeever is to lead the first ever school-based expedition to scale Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak.

Alesha Dixon could be set for a shock move to ‘The X Factor’.