Ray D'Arcy

It could be current Mayo footballer.

No, former Mayo footballer, Padraig O'Hara.

And he's heading up Everest and he's writing the diary for the Irish Times.

And then I was mentioning this to my daughter over the weekend and she said, well, Adam Sweeney.

From Dunmore East, he's heading up Everest as well, and indeed he is.

And Adam Sweeney hopes to be the youngest Irish person to ever conquer Everest at the age of 22.

We must talk to him or somebody belong to him in the coming week.

It's a major feat.

I still don't know why people do it.

And some people, me included, sometimes think it's sort of a, is it a selfish thing?

Well, I suppose Adam, you know, he's a young lad, single lad.

Padraig O'Hara has a partner and three children.

And then I've talked to people who've done it and they say it was an itch they had to scratch.

And the people in their lives were very supportive of that.

They knew that if they didn't do it, they would be a lesser person.

So that all sort of makes sense, I think.

Great achievement, though, as is flying around the moon and splashing down successfully, as they did.

Yes.

Now, he's not like George Hamilton, you know.

When George Hamilton said, a nation holds its breath,