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We are @hipointireland on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Find us using the icons below. If you use any of these social media platforms, you are very welcome to follow us there. Feel free to grab our attention using the @hipointireland tag in your Irish Sport Hillwalking stories, photos and videos. We will interact accordingly during our next Tuesday Morning Media slot.

We are @hipointireland

Find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using the icons below. If you use any of these social media platforms, you are very welcome to follow us there. Please note that the development of the High Point Ireland website is where we direct most of our screen time. For this reason, we only visit our social media channels when we have news and announcements of our own to post, at which point we will also interact with any Irish Sport Hillwalking stories, photos, videos, news and announcements you have brought to our attention by using the @hipointireland tag.

In general, we aim to limit our social media usage to a maximum of one hour in total each week. Not only have we chosen this approach for time management and efficiency reasons, we also believe that less exposure to social media (and screens in general) helps us to maintain and improve our mental health while freeing up additional time for physical activity.

Having said that, we do recognise the benefits of using social media. Each time we go on to post our own news and announcements, we will also use that time to share and like as many of your Irish Sport Hillwalking posts as we can. We are keen to see relevant stories, photos and videos from Ireland-based Sport Hillwalkers.

Share your posts with us on social media any time. We'll interact with them next time we're on.

Helping you find more posts

Follow us on social media if you are looking for Sport Hillwalking posts from all over Ireland. You can find us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We want to share as many of your posts as possible on our feeds to showcase Ireland's Sport Hillwalking locations and to inspire you to get involved in the All-Ireland Hillwalking Championships.

Helping you reach a bigger audience

If you're posting photos or videos from a recently-visited Irish mountain summit or High Point, we are more than happy to help you reach a bigger audience of like-minded Sport Hillwalkers. Here's how we do it.

We check for new notifications on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. If we find posts which are relevant to our specialist topic and are positive in tone, we will generally give them likes. We aim to share as many of these as possible on the @hipointireland feeds each time we visit our social media channels. If we have anything to add, we will do so in the comments.

In order to interact with your social media posts, we need to be able to find them first. This is where you can help. The easiest way to bring your posts to our attention on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram is by tagging them @hipointireland. Each time you do this, we will usually (but not always) receive a notification.

Please note that a share on our feed is not guaranteed even if it is tagged. We want our feeds to be as diverse as possible in terms of the whos and the wheres. For this reason, we prefer not to have multiple posts by the same poster appearing consecutively in our feeds. This should also bring about some diversity in the places being featured.

The more eye-catching your post is, the higher its chances of being shared by us. Text-only posts will not be shared. We may also share untagged posts brought to our attention through third-party shares. Comments containing suspicious-looking URLs will be deleted where possible and will not be shared. Any URL which does not generate a relevant and authentic-looking preview will be regarded as suspicious and potentially harmful.

Please note that we do not promote or encourage the use of drones in tranquil, scenic locations. The vast majority of hillwalkers seek the peace and quiet that can only be found in our upland areas. For this reason, we do not interact with any social media posts which include photos or video footage captured using drones. As these devices become more popular, they have the potential to become as big a nuisance in our countryside as littering and quad bikes.

Any posts shared by @hipointireland may also be shared by @irelandwalking. The Ireland Walking Guide is the first-stop information resource for recreational walking in Ireland.

Twitter

Follow @hipointireland.
Bring your Irish Sport Hillwalking tweets to our attention by tagging them @hipointireland.
We will interact accordingly. This may be in the form of likes, retweets and comments.
Any posts shared by @hipointireland may also be shared by @irelandwalking. The Ireland Walking Guide is the first-stop information resource for recreational walking in Ireland.

Facebook

Follow @hipointireland.
Join the "Sport Hillwalking in Ireland" Facebook group.
Bring your Irish Sport Hillwalking posts to our attention by sharing them to the Sport Hillwalking in Ireland group and tagging them @hipointireland. Posts can be published directly to the group or shared from your own profiles and pages. Please ensure that any shared posts are publicly visible - we will delete posts from the group if they are not publicly visible. Please note that all new posts need to be approved by group moderators. For this reason, your posts will not appear in the group feed until the next time we are on Facebook.
We will interact accordingly. This may be in the form of likes, comments and shares to High Point Ireland's Facebook page. We may also add some posts to our stories where they will appear for 24 hours.
Any posts shared by @hipointireland may also be shared by @irelandwalking. The Ireland Walking Guide is the first-stop information resource for recreational walking in Ireland.
Please abide by the group's rules. Rule-breakers will be banned from the group. If you see posts or comments which do not belong in the group, please report them to us immediately. Each post / comment has a facility which allows you to report them to group admin.

Instagram

Follow @hipointireland.
Bring your Irish Sport Hillwalking posts to our attention by tagging them @hipointireland.
We will interact accordingly. This may be in the form of likes and comments. Instagram does not have a share facility. For this reason, we will add some posts to our stories where they will appear for 24 hours.
Any posts shared by @hipointireland may also be shared by @irelandwalking. The Ireland Walking Guide is the first-stop information resource for recreational walking in Ireland.

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If you are planning to visit any of the locations on the Irish High Point lists, please be aware that Highpointeering, rambling, hill-walking, hiking and mountaineering are risk activities. High Point Ireland and Donard Media (the website's publisher) accept no responsibility for any injury, loss or inconvenience sustained by anyone using this website. Personal safety is entirely the participant's own responsibility.

The inclusion of locations on the official list of Ireland's major geographical High Points is based entirely on each location's ability to meet the necessary criteria for at least one of the eight primary sub-lists contained on this website. It should not be assumed that access is permitted to any of the High Point locations on the list. High Point Ireland and Donard Media recommend that anyone planning to visit any of the High Point locations on the list should check for potential access restrictions and to request permission from the relevant landowner(s) in advance.