If your stag prefers combat games to kissograms or your hen is happy to forego a hangover, then a day out paintballing is just the alternative you need.

Over the border in Co. Monaghan, the gurus at A.W.O.L. Paintball have designed a number of activities to bring out the warrior in all of you. How about a game of Hunt the Stag, Pluck the Hen or - for a modern approach to your big day out - Stags v Hens?

And, if the blushing bride and her fragile friends are concerned abut being zapped by paintballs, there's always the gentler sport of Speedball.

This 'up close and personal' wargame is played across four themed fields with wrecked cars, bales and inflatibles allowing you to duck for cover before plotting your next attack.

A.W.O.L.'s 30acre jungle forest is kitted out with trenches, bunkers, forts, bridges and other camouflage obstacles. The perfect backdrop for that little khaki number...