Colin Byrne's Stag

Three days of a stag is too much to recount in detail and only two days recovery is too little to be witty so all you are getting are the highlights, through my eyes! In fact, they are more trigger points for those who were there!

Day 1

- Kev's school uniform
- The food in The Sextant
- The free round in Luigi Malones; Ireland has refound it's humbleness
- Larry Tompkins pub
- The first jaeger bomb in
- Meath man Barry bursting in the jax door to rush me downstairs to take a photo of himself and Larry Tompkins. The respect between the two counties lives long
- The Wash
- The 'stripper' in The Courthouse. Quality. Not sure who organised that
- Cluxton, for the first time, doing something useful and arranging a queue skip and free entry to Reardons/Havanas
- Cluxton's wedding ring on tour
- The delightful Cork ladies
- Post nightclub food - Tonight it was the chicken and cheese sambo - 2 for 1 - god bless recession Ireland
- Getting Ollie and Cluxton to walk me home even though their hotel was the other way. Local knowledge boy!
- Kev's (two mentions, you are practically famous) walk home via Summerhill

Day 2

- Fighting through
- Pint Bottles of Bulmers in The Old Oak before noon. I observed from a distance
- Pizza in Fast Als
- Clancy's
- The Rob Roy - where the group bound!
- Erdinger
- Burger King
- Soho; my call, not a great call
- Cork beating Limerick after extra-time. I'd committed to no jaeger bombs before the final whistle. At four points up with time up in normal time, i called the round. Naive.
- The mini-bur to god knows where
- Gap
- The Roundy for a Vedett
- Bodega
- The magnificent Cork ladies...
- ....alllez les blues in this case however.
- Fast Als pizza slices
- Aidan's disappearing act
- Paul Galvin's sister
- Arriving back to hotel to find bar full of hen parties + one unnamed member of Colin Byrne's travelling party

Day 3

- Determination to make one last stand
- Belgium GAA on tour to Kinsale
- The will we won't we go for a swim in the sea. We didn't
- The Cork match in the Market
- Alan Rowan getting the jaeger in at half-time - totally unnecessary
- Searlzy getting the jaeger ready in Oscars - totally unnecessary
- The Tap - it was closed
- Back to my place
- The supreme hospitality laid on by the folks - above and beyond
- 48 bottles of Vedett
- Quality BBQ
- The bro, his wife Zoe and their army of kids.
- The Creedons and O'Riordans
- Alan putting apple juice in Jim O'Riordans tea by accident. His wife Mary not noticing and doing the same
- The booze run; 48 bottles of Stella, 2 bottles of Jaeger and 24 cans of red bull. I thought my mother would never be the same again. In fairness, we didn't drink it all
- The White Lady. It had to be done

Day 4

- Colin Byrne's driving to Dublin. Top notch
- Sleeping on the way up
- Alan unloading his pockets at security in Dublin Airport. They were full of Vedett tops he had been picking up after The White Lady
- Getting home to bed