Eoin Swift
Q1. Nickname: “Swifty”!!
Q2. Favourite Position: “Full Back”!!
Q3. Club Honours: Under 14 hurling, Under 16 hurling and football eastern and county medals. Eastern and county medals in minor hurling and football.
Q4. When and where did you first play hurling (who was your coach, friend etc.) Up in the field and down in the school yard with bro Griffey and Bro Dowling and Paddy Sheridan.
Q5. Childhood heroes: Eric Cantona, Roy Keane and Ken McGrath
Q6. Your Biggest Fear? Dying!!
Q7. What is your Favourite Food? Chicken meat and chips from Istanbul.
Q8. What is your Favourite Film? Stand by me!!
Q9. What is your Favourite Music? I’m an easy listener but used to be a raver in me day!!!!
Q10. What is your Favourite Holiday Destination? Boatstrand and Dunmore East.
Q11. Best sporting event Watched/Witnessed: Munster final 2004
Q12. Best Mount Sion memory? Scoring a back heel against Roanmore in a football match nut-megging the keeper and the full back in the process!!
Q13. What has been your greatest moment in sport? Captaining Waterford Under 16 in football with a few my Sion lads by my side.
Q14. What is your favourite Hurling ground? Thurles.
Q15. What celebrity do you think you most look like and why? John Cena.
Q16. What is the toughest part of your sporting life? With work and two kids making time for sport.
Q17. Least memorable game and why? Anytime I get bet I’m a sore loser!!
Q18. If you were an animal, what kind would you be? A Liger Lion/Tiger
Q19. In your opinion what is the worst invention ever created? Why? Fags!!
Q20. What is your secret skill? I’d give Jamie Oliver a run for his money in the kitchen!
Q21. Talk or Music…..How do you like your radio? A bit of both…. Ray Darcy would be perfect.
Q22. Who is your ideal date, why? Sarah Phelan………Obviously!!
Q23. If there was a transfer market, what player would you like to see on the Waterford Panel? Why? Tommy Walsh I have a love/hate relationship with him!
Q24. If you had 3 people around for dinner, who would they be and why? Wayne Rooney, Keith Lemon and Homer Simpson!!
Q25. What is your signature dish? Starters – Smoked mackerel pate, Main Course – Guinness stew and for Dessert – Toblerone Cheesecake!!
Q26. If your life was a movie, what would the title of it be? Roller-coaster.
Q27. Who is the best & worst dressed on your team, why? Pat McGrath some man to pull off a Penny’s T-Shirt and Carl Cunningham some man to shop in Guiney’s!!!
Q28. Who is the longest in the showers after training? Nicholas Mackey by the time he puts all that cotton wool in his ears.
Q29. Facebook or Twitter? Which one takes your fancy? Why? I’m on both Facebook wrecks my head but still has a sneaky look every day. Twitter better for the craic!!!
Q30. If you could go back in time, where would you go? Back to 2008 when the Celtic Tiger was Booming.
Q31. 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? Moe Szyslack from the Simpsons to have a few Duffs with Homer and get a buzz off him.
Q32. What rule would you change in the GAA and why? 2 points for a sideline cut.
Q33. Who do you admire most in Mount Sion and why? Tony and Ken for obvious reasons.
Q34. Advise to younger players…. Listen to your coaches and always give a 100%.
Q35. What does Mount Sion mean to you? Some of the best friends I’ve ever mad
Q36. How do you want the world to remember you? Laughing and having a Buzz!!
Q37. In ten years time, I hope to be ……… Watching my son Bobby play for Mt Sion!!