Youngsters learn to scale new heights

Meet the kids who have gone to great heights to represent their country.

And it’s a real family affair as two siblings and three brothers are among the elite group of skilled young climbers from the fledgling Cork Youth Climbing Club who have been selected to climb for Ireland at a major international climbing competition in Scotland this summer.

Hanna D’Aughton, 10, and her brother, Cormac, 7, as well as the Flynn brothers — Sean, 11, Eoin, 12, and Jack, 14 — will strap themselves into their harnesses and rope up alongside Clodagh Corbett, 9, Luke Egan, 10, and David Cussen, 14, to tackle routes on one of Britain’s toughest climbing walls at the Great Britain and Ireland Youth Climbing Series’ grand final in Ratho, Edinburgh, on June 23.