Emma Hand, Sé O’Hanlon, Gerry Galligan, Peter Wood and I met up in the Ballyhoura Hostel in Kilfinane on the Friday night. On Saturday morning […]
Galtees Trip, January 2017
Category: Trip Report: Ireland
Moonlight Challenges
Recent interest in the organised Moonlight Challenge and all this talk about a super moon reminded me of a time when we used to hold […]
Mournes Trip 21-22 May 2016
What a fantastic weekend, thanks again Jon for organising it. Even though the weather wasn’t the best for Saturday some got to climb and others had […]
Donegal Shenanigans…
With the promise of blue skies for the weekend a last minute decision was made from myself and Jason to head to Donegal for vertical […]
Culdaff Climbfest 2016
Climbfest Topo here. All in it was ace – lovely, lovely people & lovely crags – it’s mecca for climbing…and the weather was good. We […]
Pegs of Yore
A post on the forum by Peter Wood regarding the demise of the peg on Setanta led to this short piece from Gerry on pegs: past & […]
2015 Newbies Head to The Burren
Some of the new members from the 2015 New Members Programme got together on 26-28 September in the Burren, Co Clare. One of our number […]
Howth Climbing: The Deer Park Crag
It all began on a fine ‘Indian Summer’ day on 15 September 2014. Myself and Kevin Coakley had gone to climb the ‘Candlesticks’, two prominent […]
Slieve Beg – 15 Star Climbing
I finally got to Slieve Beg in the Mournes with Dave Keogh last week, one that been on the to-do list for a while. The […]
Prelude Nightmare
PN is a special climb. When I first started climbing, my second day out on a two day course was a “taste of multipitch” climbing. […]