“YOU NEED HARD BOOTS,” my strapping guide Barbara, looking fitter than most of us in that room, takes one look at my shoes and shakes her head. My sports shoes, trusty aides during my Ireland trip, do not pass muster. I change into hard hiking boots for ‘better grip on mossy paths and to reduce the risk of falling’, and a hard hat ‘so my head doesn’t bump against the top of caves or the side of rocks’. It’s the first sign that I am about to undertake a gruelling, but thrilling adventure. It is quite the initiation into The Gobbins Cliff Path (), considered by many to be the most dramatic
