{"id":477123,"date":"2026-06-01T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477123\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:46:09","slug":"it-all-works-out-everest-climber-tells-lc-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477123\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It all works out,&#8217; Everest climber tells LC students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The youngest Irish person to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/other-sport\/2026\/0520\/1574262-ohora-and-irish-climbing-team-summit-mount-everest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">summit Mount Everest<\/a> has shared his advice to students who are about to sit their Leaving Cert exams.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Sweeney, 22, from Dunmore East, Co Waterford wants pupils who may be nervous or worried about their exams to know that &#8220;it all works out the way it&#8217;s meant to work out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Adam remembers the Leaving Cert as a &#8220;tough&#8221; time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suppose, for the Leaving Cert, it probably does feel like an Everest, but then in five years&#8217; time, you\u2019ll look back and almost forget what results you got,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You think everything comes down to this in life, but you\u2019ll get through it so quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks ago, Adam achieved his dream of getting to the top of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>It was something he had decided he wanted to do when he was in transition year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being able to carry that Tricolour to the top of the world was class,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hasn\u2019t sunk in yet, its a weird feeling because you also feel like, what\u2019s next after it? I\u2019m just absolutely delighted and to do it with a full Irish team was the cherry on top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to hear more from Adam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The youngest Irish person to summit Mount Everest has shared his advice to students who are about to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-477123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}