STEP INTO ANY pub in Ireland over the weekend and chances are, you were in the company of a group embarking on a 12 pubs of Christmas crawl.

They may have been laughing, they may have been wearing cute ironic Christmas jumpers and headgear, but where are they now? In a world of regret, that’s where.

Spare a thought for this lot of valiant warriors who gave it their all.

1. This guy, whose only reward for completion was pain

2. This girl and her battle wounds

3. This girl who has her priorities straight

4. This born-again pioneer

5. This mother who’s teaching her kid not to be a quitter

6. This hardcore prinker. Throw on more beers

7. This guy who dared to fight the hangover

8. This unfortunate witness

9. Spare a thought for those who didn’t make it

10. And those who had to endure torture during the resulting torture

11. Then there were those who lost all concept of time. Heartbreaking

12. But that’s nothing compared to this lad who’s in a hoop and may never escape

To all those who still have the trek ahead of them, Godspeed.

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