As a new year and indeed a new decade rolls around, many people (myself included) will be considering setting new goals and planning for the year ahead and beyond. Although I do set goals, the actual goal itself doesn’t really occupy much of my day to day thinking. The goals themselves are merely a reflection…
On December 21 last year (the winter solstice), I was lucky enough to attend Soulspace in Dublin that my good friends Gerry Hussey and Miriam Kerins Hussey were running. Towards the end of this very special experience, everyone held a small tea light candle in the palm of their hand with the flame symbolising the…
12 months ago, I said good bye to my uncle Ollie. We both knew we would never see each other again but we didn’t go there. Ollie was dying and was in a nursing home in Limerick. My wife Colette and I called in to see him on our way to Kinsale where we would…
Over the past 6 months, I’ve been boxing a few mornings each week. This is something I haven’t really done before and I’ve absolutely loved it. A good friend of mine Gerry Hussey who is a performance psychologist, does these sessions as part of his overall work with his clients and I’ve been fortunate enough…
It was late April 2018 on the day in question. I found myself north of the Arctic Circle with 10 teammates on a hiking trip across Baffin Island. With crampons on my boots, I was walking along a frozen river dragging my sled of belongings behind me. It was mid to late afternoon, the temperature…
Together with my rowing partner, I rowed 2,500 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Island of La Gomera to the Caribbean Island of Antigua. The voyage took 85 days and during this time, we experienced tropical storms, the tale end of a hurricane, chronic dehydration, exhaustion, hallucination and a dose of seasickness. Although…
This was a 4-day 550km bike trip I did with some friends while I was living in Vancouver. We used the cycle as a tool to raise money for a very worthy cause in Swaziland and we managed to raise $25,000. For me there are very few things in life that beat sharing an experience…
Together with 3 teammates, we attempted one of the “last firsts” remaining in the adventure world, which was to cross the infamous North West Passage in the Canadian High Arctic on human power alone in one season. We had a 2-month window, during which the ice melts for the summer, to complete this 3,300km journey.…
Together with 6 friends, I cycled the 2,000km Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland. For 11 magical days, we cycled the beautifully rugged, wild and majestic west coast of Ireland starting in the gorgeous town of Kinsale in Co Cork and finishing in the historical city of Derry in Northern Ireland. This was a great way…
This was a 10-day traverse of Baffin Island, which sits on the Eastern side of the Canadian Arctic. This was an expedition I did with Peak Teams. The trip was called “Crossing the Divide and our team of 11 people traversed the Auyuittuq Pass on Baffin Island hauling our sleds across the ice, snow and…
