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Rehab is calling on Westmeath adventurers and all those with an interest in the outdoors to sign up for the ultimate challenge of 2012, while at the same time raising money for HeadsUp, Rehab’s youth suicide prevention project. The Five Peaks Challenge takes place over three days, from August 3 -5, with participants climbing the five highest mountains in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales.

Many parents quite naturally dread the onset of teenage years, when their dearly beloveds are subsumed by a fog of mental hormones for a few years while they painfully begin to learn their way in the world. For the lucky ones, a sporting bias will show early, and a simple pair of football boots are all that’s needed to keep your horror from a regular appearance in the Garda station.

AMONG THE literary luminaries gracing this year’s Cúirt festival is Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker, winner of last year’s IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Twin.