Pat Kelly
Q1. Nickname: The Cat
Q2. Position: Corner back
Q3. Club Honours: 1 County Minor, 2 Eastern Under 21 and 3 Eastern Junior Football.
Q4. When and where did you first play hurling (who was your coach, friend etc.)? In school with Brother Dowling and with my two brothers, Dan & Eoin.
Q5. Childhood heroes: Dan Shanahan, now Anderson Silva.
Q6. Your Biggest Fear? Heights and Kenny Stafford after a night out.
Q7. What is your Favourite Food? Burgers.
Q8. What is your Favourite Film? American Gangster.
Q9. What is your Favourite Music? Oasis and Noel Gallagher.
Q10. What is your Favourite Holiday Destination? New York.
Q11. Best sporting event Watched/Witnessed: 2004 Munster Hurling Final or 2011 Ireland v England in the Aviva (6 Nations).
Q12. Best Mount Sion memory? Beating Ballygunner minor. We had poor team but went out and bet them by a point!
Q13. What has been your greatest moment in sport? Beating Jess Kehoe in darts in the club in July 2011. Nearly got choke slammed!
Q14. What is your favourite Hurling ground? Davy Carroll Park (Mount Sion)
Q15. What celebrity do you think you most look like and why? McLovin from Superbad.
Q16. What is the toughest part of your sporting life? Juggling work, training teams and doing my own training.
Q17. Least memorable game and why? Eastern Intermediate Final v Clonea 2009. Game we throw away.
Q18. If you were an animal, what kind would you be? A cat.
Q19. In your opinion what is the worst invention ever created? Why? Drink! For so many reasons.
Q20. What is your secret skill? Pound for Pound best crisp eater in the town!! And reading books.
Q21. Who is your ideal date, why? Charlotte Jackson from Sky Sports News. She’s good looking and knows a lot about sport and maybe if Pugs Power gives me a few tips I could get an owl kiss!
Q22. Who is the best & worst dressed on your team, why? Michael “Pecker” Power worst in the club, on the senior team Ozzy Ryan or Michael King. Best Dressed is Michael Frisby.
Q23. Who is the longest in the showers after training? Eoin McGrath definitely!!
Q24. If you could go back in time, where would you go? Back to the good old days of hanging around Hillview green all day.
Q25. 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? Pappy Bowe – Because you never know what will happen.
Q26. What rule would you change in the GAA and why? Stop the long breaks between championship matches in the club championship.
Q27. Who do you admire most, why? Brian O’Driscoll. Greatest Irish Sportsman of all time.
Q28. Advise to younger players….Enjoy it and be the best you can be!
Q29. In ten years time, I hope to be ……… Still playing senior hurling. Coaching underage teams and being healthy and happy.