John Brennan

This Sunday saw further preparations being made for this year’s festival with our scheduled A and B walks both leaving from Lisvarrinane Village. Traditionally Sunday walks during the May Bank Holiday Festival Weekend take place in the Galtee range and this year is no different with one exception, we will have a total of four walks on the Sunday. The A high level Walk is a closely gu

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UPDATE: It's also possible to be notified of upcoming walks by SMS using Google Calendar.

The Ballyhoura Bears website uses Google Calendar to store details of all upcoming walks. If you haven't heard of Google Calendar, it is a free Internet calendar that lets you keep track of your own events and share your calendars with others. It's the ideal tool for managing personal and professional schedules. It is… Continue

Plans are well underway for this year’s Walking Festival which takes place as always over the three days of the May Bank Holiday weekend. This Sunday’s walk saw the final preparations being made to the Marathon route, designed to test the endurance of the fittest of hillwalker. Thirty one ‘A’ and ‘B’ walkers combined to put the second 13miles of the route through its paces, and assuredly it lived up to its promise. The majority travelled by bus to Glenanaar, where we left off two weeks ago. We a… Continue

By Robin Lee (Ballyhoura Bears PRO)

The Club is continuing it’s theme of rehearsing the walks that will be undertaken in the upcoming Ballyhoura International Walking Festival while at the same time providing attractive walks for members.

The Comeraghs was the range that was selected for last Sunday’s “A” walk. Mary Ryan was the selected leader and not to miss out on a moment of daylight she assembled her group at Melody’s Pub at 9.30 a m where she outlined the day that she had planned… Continue

By Robin Lee (Ballyhoura Bears PRO)


In preparation for The Ballyhoura International Walking Festival on the May Bank Holiday weekend last Sunday’s “A” and “B” walk was a combined walk taking in the first half of the marathon route. Twenty-six of us assembled at Glenanaar Car Park. Leaving our cars there we were transported by bus to the start in Kilfinane on a cool breezy morning. The planned route was to leave the town for Magnier’s Wood and thence to Fox’s Field before heading wes… Continue