2010

I started on the resolutions early this year. The icy roads made getting home from a night out tricky so I took it easy on the boozy nights out. Instead, I became a regular visitor to the gym and fitted in a bit of hockey and one Gaelic Football session. As a result, I’m feeling fairly lively starting the year. No pains aches or otherwise. Long may it continue.

Just as well considering the lecture James Murph gave us on cholesterol just before Christmas. Pizza, Coke and sweets will be the big losers in the diet stakes as they are substituted for a bit more fruit, veg and the like.

On the football front, Colin, Conan and myself will sit down in the next two weeks to start plotting the year. Training, challenge games and how to deal with all the logistic stuff will be the topics of the day. The revolving door is still spinning as fellas come and go. Marty will be scheming about all things hurling and we’ll be back in action before we know it. I think everyone is eager to get back doing stuff so hopefully the year will get off to a good start.

I contemplated putting the blog to bed for good but decided to keep it going. This year though, I’ll open it up a bit to give a bit more insight into living in foreign lands; the joys of driving in Brussels, dealing with the commune, not being able to speak a word of the local lingo, the social side, the working way and all that kind of stuff. The entries will be shorter and more concise after a number of complaints about the long winded rants of 2009!

For now, I leave you with a thought for 2010, courtesy of a famous Offaly man;

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Barack Obama