An Irish endurance runner who travelled the globe running seven marathons in five days has secured another record – his daughter has become the youngest person at the North Pole.

An Irish endurance runner who travelled the globe running seven marathons in five days has secured another record, his daughter has become the youngest person at the North Pole.

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI and Marco Tardelli will travel to Poland this week to assess Ireland’s base camp options for the European Championship finals next summer.

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy is set to make his second bid to be the youngest person to ski to the North Pole.

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THE robin is the bird most associated with the Christmas season and, I suppose, if you had to pick a mammal you’d have to go for the reindeer.

FOUR women have tried and failed, but an explorer who enjoys manicures and sassy dresses yesterday announced her bid to be the first woman to trek solo to the North Pole.

A RESTAURANT is offering a taste of the life of a polar adventurer with a new menu inspired by the exploits of Ernest Shackleton that packs in a mammoth 6,000 calories.

COKE, Charlie, Blow, the Devil’s Dandruff, Flake, Angie, Line, Base, C, Toot, Snow . . . few drugs go under so many names, or seem so suited to the stressful lifestyle of the 21st century — both a stimulant, and an appetite suppressant . . . and very quick to administer.

Four explorers who made history by becoming the first Irish expedition to reach the South Pole have been invited to Stormont by Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.

President Mary McAleese will today honour four explorers who made history by becoming the first Irish expedition to reach the South Pole.

TWO polar heroes will get a warm welcome tomorrow night when they jet in to their home town a week after conquering the South Pole.

A COSY little pub in the Dingle Peninsula might be a long, long way from the South Pole but the achievements of the first Irish team to reach the southernmost point on earth were celebrated there, last night.

WHEN Pat Falvey named his 2007 South Pole expedition “Beyond Endurance”, he knew he was not alone.

Tabloid newspapers the Daily and Sunday Sport could soon be listed on the UK stock market as part of the group’s proposed sale to a firm specialising in delivering adult content to mobile phones.

Sacrilege: A violation of what is sacred – so says my Little Oxford Pocket Dictionary. But that doesn’t go far enough, so I look further.

A team of British and Canadian explorers endured seven weeks of howling winds and sub-zero temperatures to become the first expedition to reach the geographic centre of Antarctica on foot.

Darren Smith's dramatic injury-time equaliser gave Motherwell a deserved point against SPL leaders Celtic at Fir Park today.

A GROUP of Irish antarctic exploration enthusiasts yesterday spent a total of €38,000 on historic items which belonged to Cork- born Polar explorer Patrick Keohane.

A TEAM of cyclists plan to travel from the South Pole to the North Pole in less than a week in aid of Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind.

THE first Irishman to reach the South Pole was given the highest honour in his hometown at the weekend.

THE first Irishman to set foot on the South Pole is looking forward to a homecoming banquet of brown bread baked by his children.

THE first British woman to walk solo and unaided to the South Pole was said to be elated yesterday after finishing the trek in record time.

The first British woman to walk solo and unaided to the South Pole was said to be elated today after finishing the trek in record time.

Explorer Pen Hadow was today continuing his long journey home after enduring eight days alone at the North Pole, his wife said.

A member of the three-woman expedition bidding to set a Polar trekking record has been airlifted off the ice with frostbitten feet, it emerged today.

A rescue team left today for the South Pole, flying into the face of high winds and near-total darkness on a risky effort to evacuate an ailing American doctor working at the end of the world.