Stone quarry to host rock climbing festival

AN amphitheatre carved out of a stone quarry hosts a rock climbing festival this weekend.

Climber Dawson Stelfox, who in 1993 became the first Irishman to conquer Everest, joins a local community on the Kilkenny-Tipperary border for the planned climbing fest.

Ballykeefe’s amphitheatre is the setting for the event, which includes an opportunity for floodlit rock-climbing tomorrow evening.