Karen Sweeney

It's not to be taken lightly.

You know, so, yeah, so it's all kind of, it's going towards this point now where they're waiting for that weather window and up they'll go probably.

Yeah, so there's four people from Ireland, Adam being one of those.

So you've got Jason Black, who's like a mountaineer.

Yeah, so Jason's a great guy, exactly.

He's the Ulster man on the team and he's, well, he'd be the team leader.

So he's organising all the logistics for the lads and...

So I'd have great faith in Jason.

Adam's climbed with him before and Adam reached the summit of Amidablam there two years ago, I think it was.

Amidablam would be a bit more technical than Everest, but it's lower altitude.

So he got up there and Jason is great.

He'll keep in touch with the families and let them know how they're going.

but so there's Jason then we've got Porrig O'Hara who's a Mayo footballer I mentioned him yesterday yeah yeah so Porrig is heading up there as well and then there's another chap called Eanna McGowan he's from he's I think he's from Wicklow or Dublin Eanna I haven't actually met Eanna because he's living in Switzerland but funnily enough each province in Ireland is being represented by this Irish team it's really nice like so you've got Jason from Ulster Porrig is from Connacht Eanna's Leinster and Adam's from Munster up Munster yeah

Yeah, I suppose, like, we've always encouraged them to do kind of like, you know, to kind of follow their dreams.

And, you know, we are a bit on the adventurous side.

I'd say about, I think it was about maybe 10 years ago, maybe, we used to rent out holiday homes in Dunmore.

And there was a group of people who asked us, could they rent out one of the holiday homes?

And I said, no.

And I said, what are you doing, by the way?

And they said, oh, we're actually doing skydiving trips from Waterford Airport.