Six men started an annual trip. They didn’t realise it would become a lifeline
In 1994, six men started the A to Z Club, meeting annually in alphabetical cities. The tradition has evolved from bachelor party antics to deep conversations about life.
Portmarnock in County Dublin was P on the list. AP
Abby Ellin
It began, as so many ideas do, over drinks. Lots of them. The year was 1994, and a handful of Irish lads were gathered at a hotel in Northern Ireland to celebrate Colin Cather’s pending nuptials. They ate. They drank. They hugged. The “I love you, mans” flowed as freely as the Guinness.
The following morning at breakfast, rumply and nursing killer headaches, they rehashed the previous evening’s shenanigans.
