Friendship on ice for 23 years restarted after chance meeting in Antarctica

It’s often said that you can expect to bump into an Irish person all over the world, but meeting an old school-mate in Antarctica possibly takes the biscuit.

That’s exactly what happened this week when John Paul O’Donnell and Danny McFadden met one another on the virtually uninhabited ice-covered landmass.

John Paul and Danny last met when they were classmates in Scoil Naomh Duigh, Annagry, a small gaeltacht village in Donegal, back in 1993.