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Tiglin - Details of courses for beginners and instructors in a variety of outdoor sports including orienteering, canoeing, caving, climbing or hillwalking.
Mountaineering Council of Ireland - News, notices, contacts, links, discussion areas, photos and information such as the list of Ireland's 600m peaks from the MCI, the Irish climbing and hillwalking representative body.
Association of Adventure Sports - AFAS is the co-ordinating body for adventure sports in Ireland. Tiglin and other Outdoor adventrue centres, canoeing, caving, climbing, diving, hiking, sailing, surfing.
Irish Mountain Running Association - Details of the sport, constitution of the association, calendar, results, news, articles and technique notes.
Go Outdoor Ireland - Information on six outdoor activity sites. Includes fishing, boating, walking, golfing and hunting.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Outdoors I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." 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The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Outdoors "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Outdoors Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Outdoors Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Outdoors There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Outdoors "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Outdoors The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Outdoors To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Outdoors We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." 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Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Outdoors See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Outdoors The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Outdoors Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Outdoors
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