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The Mourne Wall will help guide you across these testing mountains, writes DEIRDRE DAVYS

‘WE’RE JUST GOING for a wee dander up Slieve Donard. We’ll be back before nightfall,” two young women told us as they headed into the mountains at six o’clock on a glorious summer’s evening in early June.