Building a trail across the Dublin Mountains is no easy task, but a dedicated band of volunteers in Mountain Meitheal are actually attempting to link Tallaght and Shankill across the wooded terrain ...

Documentary on the work of the group will be premiered at Kerry Film Festival on Sunday A few volunteers from the Killarney Mountain Meitheal out on location with their hatchets and spray cans.

THERE are tens of thousands of hillwalkers in Ireland. That’s a lot of boots crushing earth and stone, wearing away the terrain. Several organisations, including Mountaineering Ireland, the ...

GREYSTONES man Bill Murphy has written a new handbook on trail design and construction specifically for Irish conditions. Mountain Meitheal, the Wicklow and Dublin based trail conservation group ...

A group of volunteers in Leitrim have borrowed an idea from the Roman empire and are using sheep's wool to construct a walking trail along a sensitive area of upland. Members of Mountain Meitheal ...