Sixty Irish people have returned from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. They raised £100,000 for the National Council of the Blind and the Richmond Brain Research Foundation.
Some of the climbers are blind and visually impaired people and some are ex-patients from Beaumont Hospital's neurological department.
Mr Robert Dowdall, one of the group, is the first European blind person to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Eighty people went on the expedition, of whom 60 climbed to the top of Kilimanjaro.