Frits Potgieter is General Manager with Muckross Park Hotel and Spa.

Etosha, Namibia‘s ‘great white place’ and ‘lake of mothers tears’, is one of the world’s great nature reserves.

Take up the White Man’s burden, Send forth the best ye breed, Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives’ need.

When Tomás Mac an tSaoir came through the arrival gates of Dublin airport yesterday, his only visible signs of injury were some small plasters on his feet.

There are many simple steps to help green tourism without limiting your horizons, says Thomas Breathnach

The sustainable travel movement is here to stay, writes Thomas Breathnach.

Toto will play their classic mega-hit, and plenty more hits from their impressive repertoire, at the Marquee in Cork, writes Ed Power.

Frits Potgieter has been appointed as general manager of the 5-star Muckross Park Hotel & Spa in Killarney, part of the iNua Collection.

I’ve set about exploring the fauna of the island. Species are few compared to Ireland but, as always with wild things, be they plants by the wayside, birds in the sky, fish in the sea, or

Insects could be a game changer in the race to combat food insecurity and achieve zero hunger.

A self-styled adventure junkie will have to avoid bandits and lions and endure searing desert heat on an epic 12,000km solo bike tour through Africa.

British exploration company Serica Energy is actively looking for development partners to move forward its Irish assets to the drilling stages.

A doctor who exposed himself to a nurse and a teenage patient in two separate incidents has been struck off the medical register by the High Court.

Ireland is the eighth most expensive country in Europe for the average cost of broadband — despite being among the slowest in Europe for average broadband speeds.

In the 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are pursued by a posse of lawmen, among whom is a Native American tracker, writes Richard Collins. 

A rhino turned the tables on a suspected poacher in Namibia, charging and injuring the man while he was allegedly tracking it.

In Mozambique three lions died after eating bait infused with a crop pesticide.

Hundreds of thousands of illegal prescription drugs have been found by authorities in an international one-week blitz on the illicit trade.

It was a location for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, so it’s no surprise that Kerry has been listed as one of the best star-gazing spots on the planet.

An elephant has trampled and killed an Argentinian hunter who was among a group tracking a herd in Namibia.

I’ve just been writing a letter to a German painter whom I met on a long trip outdoors last February; some readers may recall my dispatches from Namibia and the Kalahari Desert, writes Damien Enright.

The rising superpower has built up enormous holdings in poor, resource-rich African countries – but its business partners aren’t always thrilled, writes Brook Larmer

Age should be no barrier to living an adventurous and full life, especially if you have the time after retirement, writes Caroline Allen

Back at home again, we are enjoying west Cork as much as we have ever enjoyed anywhere, probably more so because, although we regularly roam, it is here that we have settled, writes Damien Enright.

Damien Enright gives us a run down of his latest adventures in Namibia.

Thundering along the roads of Etosha National Game Reserve in northern Namibia in our rented camper van, we mow down plains tigers in their dozens, like it or not. 

ETHIOPIA will forever leave images of solitary walkers in my mind’s eye, lone men and women walking beside country roads or on paths across endless plains, miles from villages or any habitation, writes Damien Enright.

Having exhausted the fruit and berry crops of their Nordic homelands, waxwings are heading southwards, writes Richard Collins.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has celebrated his 93rd birthday surrounded by thousands of supporters in a defiant show of strength after nearly four decades in power.

THOSE ancient gods, the sun and moon, appear as circles in the sky, writes Richard Collins.

A surge in killing African elephants for ivory has led to the “majestic” animal’s numbers falling by more than 100,000 in a decade, conservationists warned.

A surge in killing African elephants for ivory has led to the "majestic" animal's numbers falling by more than 100,000 in a decade, conservationists have warned.

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Kenya's president has set fire to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than one ton of rhino horn in a dramatic statement against the trade in ivory and products from endangered species.

A Russian marathon runner who won a race in Japan after the country was banned from global competition has been disqualified and could face further punishment.

The impression of Romanian rugby has long been one of a once proud nation trapped in a spiral of decline. Long gone are those halcyon days when they sometimes scalped but almost always scared the Five Nations.

As Namibia lock PJ Van Lill rose to claim the lineout he began to topple over. He lurched to a 40 degree angle and was only saved by the strength of the two props holding him airborne.

TV3 bring you live coverage from the RWC as New Zealand play Namibia.

Jacques Burger is afraid of nothing. Completely fearless, he says. Then he remembers. “No, but I am afraid of things off the pitch, I promise you that. Oooh, snakes for instance. I don’t like snakes very much,” he says with a theatrical shudder.

Vice-captain Kevin O’Brien has been named in the Ireland squad to tour Zimbabwe and Namibia in October.