Mike Barry became the first Irishman to walk to the South Pole, a feat that eluded his fellow Kerryman Tom Crean and explorer Ernest Shackleton.
RTÉ's Jennie O'Sullivan was in the crowd waiting to welcome him home at Cork Airport several days later. In this report, he talks about the trek and the disappointment of seeing the "imprint of man" on the South Pole after "51 days in the wilderness", walking 1200 kilometres and climbing over 9,000 feet. His son says that other fathers don't do things like this and come back "as skinny as a twig and breaking their leg and all that".
An RTÉ News report from 27 January 2004.
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