Hi Lorraine, Just wanted to say a big Thank You for arranging our Carrauntoohil Climb last Saturday. It was a brilliant experience and we really enjoyed it despite the weather! (It just means we may come back again to see the scenery!!) Ian and Tony were great and kept us…

Today saw our June trekking team leave their base hotel at Moshi (910m), set for the Machame Gate passing banana and coffee plantations that line the route. Our lead guide was in contact to say everyone was in great spirits as they set off after meeting their trekking team of…

Pat Falvey was a keynote speaker at Supply Chain Human Resources Leadership meeting for Johnson and Johnson International conference in Cork. Pat's keynote facilitated the main topic of the conference which was focused on the topic of change management in the context of “Motivating Human Resource Business Partners in Challenging…

Vocational Educational Commitee choose Pat Falvey teambuilding for their organisations away day. 33 Administration staff from the VEC took part in a team away day in Jury’s Hotel Western Road Cork on. This was facilitated by Pat Falvey staff headed up by Tony Nation, Ian O'Neill, Darren Healy and Alan…

Get UP, Get Out, Get FIT  2nd Walk Cork Branch Ordinary people taking their health serious as they take to the roads and byways of Ireland with Pat Falvey's new division on fitness through walking. Report from Tony Nation and Ian O Neill.  Directors of Cork/ Kerry Branch The 2nd…

Company Away Day & Teambuilding in Killarney   50 Staff from the Merck Sharp and Dohme OPS1 Manufacturing plant in Cork assembled at Kate Kearney’s Cottage in Killarney at 10:00 on Friday morning 17 June 2011 for a team building and bonding active day out in the beautiful surrounding of…

We were delighted to be invited to the offical opening of the fantastic Lisleibane carpark facility at the base of Carrauntoohil and the two footbridges that allow safe access onto the foothills of the Reeks. 25 years work has seen it's fruition and Anne Lucey's article from the Cork Examiner…

Pat,Great credit to yourself, Gene and the organisers for undertaking the responsibility of bringing a large group of novice climbers like me up Irelands highest mountain. For so long I have wanted to do this and was greatful of the opportunity and being able to raise money for Buil4life made…

The secret of the stone. (film/tv) documentaryPatrick Morell international film maker, French director  living in the US for the last 35 years and his assistant Archie Linval were over with me this week doing a film piece on the Reeks and looking for the secret of the stone.I thought this…

Lar Fant, a good friend of Pat and the team here at the Mountain Lodge, who has climbed and trained at our school of mountaineering with us over the years, rang to fill us in on his recent successful summit of Mt Denali. ''I flew onto Denali on the morning…