Owen Whelan
Q1. Nickname: “Whelo”!!!
Q2. Favourite Position: Centre Back!
Q3. Club Honours: Waterford Young hurler of the year. Mount Sion Senior and Young hurler of the year twice, County Minor Hurling and Football.
Q4. When and where did you first play hurling (who was your coach, friend etc.) In Mount Sion Club with Pat Whelan.
Q5. Childhood heroes: Ken McGrath and Tony Browne.
Q6. What is your Favourite Food? Chocolate ha!!
Q7. What is your Favourite Film? Troy!
Q8. What is your Favourite Music? Anything except for rock.
Q9. What is your Favourite Holiday Destination? Ayia Napa!!!
Q10. Best sporting event Watched/Witnessed: Munster winning the Heineken cup for the 1st time!!
Q11. Best Mount Sion memory? Winning the Minor County Title against Ballygunner
Q12. What has been your greatest moment in sport? Winning the Minor County Title against Ballygunner!!
Q13. What is your favourite Hurling ground? Thurles
Q14. What celebrity do you think you most look like and why? Silvestre because everyone says it to me haha
Q15. What is the toughest part of your sporting life? Driving to training!!
Q16. Least memorable game and why? Getting bet in the Senior Championship semi final off Ballygunner because I hate losing especially to them and we should have went on to win the county title that year!
Q17. If you were an animal, what kind would you be? Monkey so everyone in the town tells me!!
Q18. In your opinion what is the worst invention ever created? Why? Motor-Bike because it’s too easy to kill yourself!
Q19. What is your secret skill? I have none!!! I’m a useless so and so!!
Q20. Who is your ideal date, why? Kim Kardashian because she’s unreal!!
Q21. If there was a transfer market, what player would you like to see on the Waterford Panel? Why? Tommy Walsh he’s the best hurler in the country!!
Q22. If you had 3 people around for dinner, who would they be and why? Christy Moore to get the sing song going after the dinner. Tommy Tiernan because he’d have me laughing for the night and Paul O’Connell because he’s a legend!!
Q23. What is your signature dish? Chicken Curry and chips amazing
Q24. Who is the best & worst dressed on your team, why? Tommy Connors has to be the worst dressed person I was on a team with and Tonto he’s the best where he’s always in suits!!
Q25. Who is the longest in the showers after training? Ah there all around the same length!!
Q26. If you could go back in time, where would you go? I’d go back to New York
Q27. If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional with whom would it be? Why? Christiano Ronaldo because he’s unreal at soccer can have any woman he wants and he’s a millionaire!!
Q28. What rule would you change in the GAA and why? Fighting because I’m sick of getting sent off haha
Q29. Who do you admire most in Mount Sion and why? Frankie Walsh last man to captain Waterford to an all Ireland title!!
Q30. Advise to younger players…. Just keep trying always do your best and you’ll do ok!
Q31. In ten years time, I hope to be ……… I hope to be living in Ayia Napa and be a multi-millionaire!!