James Forrest has completed his record-breaking expedition in just two months. The 35-year-old walked over 1,000 km in his mission to reach the peak of all of Ireland and Northern Ireland's 600 ...

While Irish mountains are not the biggest or most spectacular, they have their own beauty which draws many visitors both domestic and international. That beauty is fragile and is already feeling the ...

A KERRYMAN has set a record for scaling 275 of Ireland’s peaks in just 21 days – and he did it wearing just one pair of socks. Clifford took on every Irish mountain over 600 metres, which are known as ...

A guide to Ireland’s highest hundred peaks has won a top award in an international mountain literature contest. The international jury for the Banff book contest in Canada selected Irish Peaks - a ...

At least 70 people, including young army cadets, were rescued Wednesday after several of them suffered hypothermia and injuries while training in the mountains in Northern Ireland, the UK Coast Guard ...

After dinner, we spread the map across the pub table. We had gotten a little lost that morning, probably due to jet lag, and we wanted to make sure the next day went smoothly. It was May, before the ...

A few years ago on a Monday morning in August, I travelled to the car park at the base of Croagh Patrick in Murrisk, Co Mayo. It was a little after 6am and, coffee in hand, I looked toward Patrick’s ...

It is an unseasonably cold July morning, in a secluded location in the Comeragh mountains, Co Waterford. Sheltering from the chill wind behind a rocky outcrop above a lake, I am hoping for rescue, ...

Tomorrow is the magical day when everyone who chooses to be becomes Irish. Being a huge fan of Scots/Irish/Celtic culture, folklore, literature, art and music, this is one of my favorite holidays.