'It had to be saved': New Croagh Patrick path opens after three years

The team consisted of Frank McMahon, David Doyle, Bernard Burke and Tulio de Jesus. Picture: Frank McMahon

A Limerick man who spent the last three years building by hand a new pathway up Croagh Patrick in Co Mayo says the mountain was “being thrashed and just had to be saved".

Frank McMahon was part of a team of five men who braced the elements to create a two-metre-wide pathway from the base of Ireland’s holy mountain, all the way to top, in order to prevent further erosion.