🧭 A Craic Attack on the Year — and What Comes Next

Salutations one and all, and allow me first to say welcome to the year 2026.

As you may have gleaned, this post comes to you on 02/01/2026 — because I have already managed to mess up my plan of action for the year.
Nevertheless, I shall power through and talk about how 2025 ended, and my hopes for the year ahead.

When I set up this website, I had made one of the biggest — and scariest — decisions of my life:
quit my job, go travelling, attend a fitness camp, and grow as a person.

Thankfully, that time became the greatest period of my life, and one I will never regret.
However… it was also short.

To anyone I meet, I tell them they need to do something like that at some point in their life. However, as I sit here and contemplate my own journey, I sometimes wonder — is it fair to say that when I cut mine short because a work opportunity I couldn’t pass up landed in my lap?

The answer to that question, for me at least, is no.

And that’s exactly why I appreciate those moments so deeply.

That journey awakened new feelings and new aspects of myself. It created a hunger to continue growing, continue improving, and continue being healthy — in both body and mind.

Although there were setbacks to those goals in 2025, I want to continue them and expand my horizons in 2026.
That includes exploring more of myself, my beliefs, my surroundings, my country — and, if time permits, the world.

One thing I know for certain is that I plan to attend the WWE event in Turin, Italy — my first time ever visiting Italy. I want to come back here and tell you about the experience, good or bad, and reflect on the impact it had on me.

In 2025, I attended Clash in Paris — and while I was there, I focused too much on maximising the time rather than enjoying it.
Maybe someday I’ll write about the journey itself: walking the streets of Paris, seeing the Eiffel Tower, and everything in between.
But that’s for future Craic.

For now, I want to say this:

To anyone who read any of the 12 posts from 2025, I truly appreciate you. Writing them made me feel more — more creative, more inspired — and I hope to continue that throughout 2026, even if it’s just a single paragraph or a quote that felt right on a given day.

I plan to continue with the support of the great Gavin Meenan (Instagram link) and the awesome facilities of ROM (Range Of Motion Sligo) (Instagram link) and hopefully share the positive steps along the way.

Ah — There’s my quote for the day.

You Had A Good Year – Craic Attack

Slán go fóill! And Póg mo Thóin! My Craic Addicts!