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Quirk-ily designed walls awash in bright colours greet climbers at Clip ‘n Climb, which is not your run-of-the-mill indoor climbing joint.
There are 17 wall designs in the 260-square-metre facility, such as the snaking beanstalk from fairy tale Jack And The Beanstalk, a lightning bolt and Morse code -inspired one.
Some of the climbing structures do not resemble walls – one is in the shape of a skinny tree trunk, while another looks like a twisted DNA strand made out of colourful blocks.
Clip ‘n Climb, from New Zealand, is a particularly fun introduction to climbing for children and beginners, as an uncomplicated auto-belay system (that eliminates the need for a human belayer) is used for each 8-metre-high wall. Climbers need to undergo only a short safety briefing before they are good to go.
What happened the Creeslough man who left school early?
THE founder of an Irish pharmaceutical services company, which has begun trials on a new Covid-19 nasal spray vaccine is Donegal man Cathal Friel.
Mr Friel (57) from Creeslough was a finalist in the International category as part of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2020.
He left school after his Junior Cert to work in the family business before going back to education. He completed a City and Guilds Cert in Basic Computer Programming in Letterkenny RTC (LYIT) at night classes and got an MBA from the University of Ulster in 1990.
He spent the following five years lecturing part-time in International Marketing and Business Planning at the University of Ulster, while running his own new technology services business.