Barry Browne
Q1. Nickname: “Babs”.
Q2. Position: Corner Forward!
Q3. Club Honours: 1 Under 16, 1 Minor, 3 Under 21, 7 Senior, 1 Senior Munster Club, 1 Minor Munster Championship, All Ireland 11s and a few crystal tankards from the Strawberry Fair Tournament!!
Q4. Earliest Sporting Memory? The race home at lunch time on the first Tuesday of every month. Children’s Allowance day was always a feast in the Browne’s House!!
Q5. Childhood heroes: Action man, Stretch Armstrong and Evil Knievel.
Q6. Your Biggest Fear? Bovril!!
Q7. What is your Favourite Food? Curry Special and Pork, Fried Rice!
Q8. What is your Favourite Film? Anything with Will Ferrell.
Q9. What is your Favourite Music? Honky Tonk and Jungle Drum n’ Bass!!
Q10. What is your Favourite Holiday Destination? New York and anywhere the sun shines!
Q11. Best sporting event Watched/Witnessed: 2004 Munster Final – Waterford v Cork – A classic!!
Q12. Best Mount Sion memory? Has to be 2002 Munster Club win and Roy McGrath’s face at half time!!
Q13. What has been your greatest moment in sport? Winning County Finals for Mount Sion with my brothers and friends!
Q14. What is your favourite Hurling ground? Thurles!
Q15. What celebrity do you think you most look like and why? In my earlier years I looked like a young Paddy Moremiles, however in my later years I’m a George Bush look-a-like!!
Q16. What is the toughest part of your sporting life? None really, I’m grateful to be fit and healthy to play sport!
Q17. Least memorable game and why? Dunloy enough said!
Q18. If you were an animal, what kind would you be? Stallion at stud!
Q19. In your opinion what is the worst invention ever created? Why? Fianna Fáil!!
Q20. What is your secret skill? Not a lot of people know this but I can actually score points!!
Q21. Who is your ideal date, why? Kelly Brook – I just think she’d be a great listener and a smashing personality and she’d love a sausage special from Danny’s!!
Q22. If you had 3 people around for dinner, who would they be and why? Johnny Jumbo, Johnny Fan and Shane Twomey. I love curries so with those 3 Chinese men, you’re bound to get a nice curry!
Q23. Who is the best & worst dressed on your team, why? This is a no brainer! I’m the best dressed for the last 30 years and Jimmy Meaney is always the worst and always will be!!
Q24. Who is the longest in the showers after training? Lenny Meaney was always the longest in the showers before or after training!!
Q25. If you could go back in time, where would you go? Back to the Celtic Tiger era when we all lost the run of ourselves, GREAT TIMES!!!
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? George Best or Tiger Woods, obviously to try right the wrongs of being with so many good looking women and champagne lifestyle to concentrate on Sport!!
Q27. What rule would you change in the GAA and why? Ban Kilkenny from entering the All Ireland Championship!!
Q28. Who do you admire most in Mount Sion, why? Michael Ryan and his bar staff, never any problems getting served!
Q29. Advise to younger players…. Stop robbing sliothars and get a job!!
Q30. In ten years time, I hope to be ………47!!!!