Anyone who enjoys the freedom of the outdoors and appreciates the access to Ireland’s countryside more or less freely given by landowners will have welcomed yesterday’s High Court ruling in which Mr Justice Michael White overturned a circuit court decision to award a hillwalker €40,000 for injuries sustained after a 2013 fall on a boardwalk on the Wicklow Way.

Jim O’Malley is the author of Walking the Munster Blackwater, an account of his seven-day walk along the famed river. He’s from East Cork, between Killeagh and Youghal, and worked as a teacher in Cork, Dublin and Killorglin. He will read from his book at the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, Lismore, Co Waterford on June 16-19.

The €40,000 award of damages to hill walker Teresa Wall following a fall on the Wicklow Way is to be challenged in the High Court. Appeal papers are to be lodged within a matter of days, it was confirmed yesterday.

Hill walkers are warning their hobby is under threat after a court case awarding major damages to a woman who fell on a trek in Wicklow.

Hillwalker Teresa Wall, who was injured when she fell on a rotting boardwalk on the Wicklow Way, was yesterday awarded €40,000 damages against the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

Farmers do not feel completely protected by the Occupier’s Liability Act.

A 59-year-old hill walker who has climbed in the Himalayas and to base camp on Mount Everest has sued the Irish National Parks and Wildlife Service for €60,000 damages following a fall on the Wicklow Way.

TIM ‘Boomer’ Carroll is a friend of mine. A Boston-Irish firefighter, he is. Don’t ask me what the ‘Boomer’ stands for. Something sporting, probably. Boomer loves Ireland. Starting with its literature.

The 10 men who graduated as the navy’s newest officers yesterday handed over a cheque for more than €7,000 to a charity set up to prevent suicide among young people.

A new guide to Dublin and Wicklow will be a failsafe companion for walkers everywhere, says Dan MacCarthy.

Almost all Coalition TDs living in constituencies along Eirgrid’s proposed GridLink in the South and East of the country want a cost-benefit analysis done on running parts or all of the extension underground.

Paula Burns was just 16 when her mother died on a family holiday.

THE Great Southern Trail promises to be one of the finest long-distance waymarked walks in Ireland.

Two people have been airlifted to hospital after getting into difficulty while walking in Co. Wicklow this afternoon.

ICMSA is at the forefront of developing new opportunities for farmers in the rural tourism sector.

ICMSA is at the forefront of developing new opportunities for farmers in the rural tourism sector.

ICMSA is at the forefront of developing new opportunities for farmers in the rural tourism sector.

SKI instructors from Austria will be present at the Ski Club of Ireland in Kilternan next weekend (Saturday and Sunday) to introduce the ever popular sport which thousands of Irish people enjoy each year.

DAMIEN ENRIGHT’S column on hill walking (Irish Examiner, September 27) contains a number of inaccuracies and clearly ignores the right of Irish citizens to their own property.

A MAN’S body believed to be that of an elderly hillwalker missing since Saturday was found in the Wicklow Mountains yesterday afternoon.

An American woman in her twenties has died from the injuries she sustained in a fall at Glendalough earlier today.