John Cleere
Q1. Nickname: “JC” or “Bunt”!!
Q2. Favourite Position: Corner Back or Wing Back.
Q3. Club Honours: 1 Munster Club, 7 Senior Hurling, 3 Under 21s, 1 Minor, 1 Under 16, 1 Under 14 and Under 11 Hurling.
Q4. When and where did you first play hurling (who was your coach, friend etc.)? Mount Sion School and Club with Bro. Griffey & Paddy Sheridan!
Q5. Childhood heroes: Joe Hennessey (Kilkenny) and Teddy McCarthy (Cork).
Q6. Your Biggest Fear? Owen Whelan with live ammunition!!!
Q7. What is your Favourite Food? Italian.
Q8. What is your Favourite Film? Any Mafia style film.
Q9. What is your Favourite Music? U2, Oasis.
Q10. What is your Favourite Holiday Destination? Aruba.
Q11. Best sporting event Watched/Witnessed: Munster Final 2004, Ken’s catch at the end! What a game!!
Q12. Best Mount Sion memory? Dressing room at half time in Munster Club Final 2002!
Q13. What has been your greatest moment in sport? I loved bringing the cups to the school, that was a nice feeling!
Q14. What is your favourite Hurling ground? Thurles.
Q15. What celebrity do you think you most look like and why? I get enough slagging as it is without bringing more grief on myself!!
Q16. What is the toughest part of your sporting life? In the last couple of years I found the shift work and the training very tiring. I suppose I was just getting old!!
Q17. Least memorable game and why? Dunloy in the All Ireland Club Semi-Final. It still sickens me!
Q18. If you were an animal, what kind would you be? Cheetah….it’s just pure speed!!
Q19. In your opinion what is the worst invention ever created? Why? Facebook – what a load of complete and utter rubbish!!!
Q20. What is your secret skill? I can play the trumpet!!
Q21. Who is your ideal date, why? Nicole Scherzinger – she’s gorgeous!
Q22. If you had 3 people around for dinner, who would they be and why? Billy Connelly, Muhammad Ali and Dean Martin. That’s some line-up!!
Q23. Who is the best & worst dressed on your team, why? Probably Pooch or Babs Browne and the worst used to be Brian Greene. H used to wear these leather waist coasts! They were cat!!!
Q24. Who is the longest in the showers after training? Paul Meaney used to be in there for ages!!
Q25. If you could go back in time, where would you go? August 1922, to tell Michael Collins not to travel down to Cork!
Q26. 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? Tony Soprano – some man! That would be some week!!
Q27. What rule would you change in the GAA and why? Sort out the club championships. The club players seem to be last in their priorities!!
Q28. Who do you admire most in Mount Sion, why? Padraig O’Fainin for just being an unbelievable man and Seamus Power for just being Seamus – he was proper old school!!
Q29. Advise to younger players…. Give it everything you can for as long as you can because it is over before you know it!
Q30. In ten years time, I hope to be……… Enjoying life with the family, involved with the club and mortgage free!!!