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It’s 9.15am on a March morning, and there’s a fair old nip in the air as we stand on the shore at Spanish Point.

John Burke, the managing director of the Armada Hotel and the first Clare person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, is never one to shy away from a challenge. Just six months after the Spanish Point business clinched the Hotel of the Year and Best Wedding Venue accolades at the Gold Medal Awards, Burke had to temporarily lay off staff when the coronavirus pandemic hit Ireland. "The initial lockdown was fairly severe, on myself and everyone who worked for me," he says. Once Burke had come to terms with the hotel's closure and disappearance of its spring wedding business, he decided to put t...

John Burke, the managing director of the Armada Hotel and the first Clare person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, is never one to shy away from a challenge.