Trip report for Noones hole 27th December Me and Ray met up at the Hub, threw the gear together, and headed off. Ray rigged the first couple of pitches and I took the last two. At the bottom of the first pitch Ray spotted what he thought was a bit of calcite sitting on a ledge. He poked it. It was a dead fish. And for reasons unknown, he then sniffed his finger. I wasn't enticed to follow that decision.. We pushed on through towards Crucifixion Crawls which were as grim as ev

Trip Report 2nd Jan 2026 Rat Run West Gorge System. Nathaniel, Peter, Oisin This cave was found in 2018 by a group of cavers, it subsequently had a collapse and was left unexplored until Ray rediscovered it and stabilized it using scaffold. The cave itself is very tight, with seldom any room to sit up, demanding and slow crawl/ worming all the way through. Given the small nature of the cave small bottles were required so I borrowed a set of Ray's 3L bottles and requested the

Trip Report 31st December 2025 Nathaniel, Alex, Siofra, Peter & Ray What better way for a year to finish than to build upon the old and prepare for the future. This trip started from a simple phone call to another cave diving buddy wherein to possibilities of diving over the new year period came up. After a previous successful mission through Upstream Sump 1 previously with Ray I knew that the sump was a great training ground and development site for sump diving. The carry in

"Prods Pot on 29/11/2025 Bryan & Ray We meet at the Hub for 11 am on Saturday morning. The plan was to go to the Mines in Sligo, but with time running a little late, it was decided to go for a trip down Prods Pot in Fermanagh. Got the gear from the gear store and drove to the parking site, got geared up on a frosty, cold mountainside! We started the walk up to the cave following the Ulster Way for three marker posts, then going left down to the Doline in the trees. Ray rigged

"We got off to a later start than planned(blame the whiskey) but eventually met at the Hub, grabbed the gear, and decided on Pollnagossan for the day. It was just the three of us: Bryan, Ray, and Nathaniel. After the drive up we got changed in the cold and headed down into the doline to find the entrance. Dropped in and straight into the rift crawl. Worked our way through the crawls until we reached the Car Wash, which soaked all three of us whether we liked it or not. Just a

Friday 19th December Cavers:  Ray & Nathaniel Cave: John Thomas Cave, Co. Fermanagh, NI, UK After Ray’s less-than-successful  diving attempt on the North Coast on Thursday — involving bad wash, swell, being knocked over, and ending up sprawled on the sand like a beached whale — we were already questioning our life choices. Thankfully, the sea had won it for me, while Nat continued the dive, but the caves were still calling, and I still learnt a lot so it was ok. On the driv