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Gola Midsummer Weekend 2025

Crossing to Owey is not as simple as it used to be, with Dan’s retirement.  He is unwell at present, and I am sure we all wish our old friend a speedy recovery.  There is no obvious ...
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Mountaineering Ireland

Many assembled at the Great Southern Hotel on Friday.  I was rescued from an historic tour of the town, (and hypothermia), by the arrival of Jack Bergin and Carol from Waterford, to the warmer ...
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Pyrenees Summer Meet 2024

To The Enchanted Mountains. A personal account from Alan Tees. Photo: Gully on Gran Encantat Thursday 22nd August  We drove to Waterford to stay with pals  -mountaineer Jack Bergin and his ...
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CCC & IMC group

IMC visit to Malin Head

The forecast was poor to dire. Even worse, there was a 2 day  Rave at the Seaview, so no climbing and no sleep either. Margaret Quinn and I joined them on Saturday, at Port a Doris.  It ...
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Colmcillers at Fairhead Meet

Report from Ronan Duddy, Club Chairperson. Photo taken by Hugh McC. Ronan (blue) on Lazarus, Emi (grey) on Pangur Bán. Fiona and I attended the Fairhead meet for the first time this year, which ran ...
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Climbfest 2024 at Malin Head

This year’s ClimbFest, was held from Friday 3rd May until Monday 6th May hosted at the Seaview Tavern and the main focus of climbing was at Malin Head. The venue was shared with a Camper Van Club ...
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Virtual AGM 2020

The club AGM was held via Zoom call on Thursday 15th October 2020 at 8pm. Minutes can be downloaded here. In attendance: Geoff, Sean, George, Damian, Alan, Neil, Valli, Neeku, Anthony, PJ, Andrew, ...
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CLIMBFEST 2020 CANCELLED

Due to recently re-imposed coronavirus restrictions, we are unable to go ahead with the Climbfest in Culdaff this weekend 22-23 August. The club feels it would be irresponsible to invite climbers to ...
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Midsummer Gola Island Trip-

Midsummer camping and climbing on Gola Island 22nd- 24th June. Sabba is the boatman (phone: 0872245881), whose ferry departs from Magheragallon Pier, Bunbeg.  According to his facebook page here, ...
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Climbfest 2018 Info

Climbfest 2018 May 4th -7th The venue is Malinbeg, and there is camping down by the harbour, near the crags GR 494 798 ( OS Sheet 10). A limited number of campervans could park there, but there is ...
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