Eoin McGrath
Q1. Nickname: Spank
Q2. Position: Forward
Q3. Honours: Under 16, 2 Minor, 3 Under 21, 3 Junior Eastern Football, 6 Senior Medals, 1 Munster Club, 4 County Munster Senior Hurling Championship Medals.
Q4. Earliest Sporting Memory? Being mascot for Senior Team in County Final in 1986 – next to Stephen Greene.
Q5. Childhood heroes: My brothers, Tony Browne, Brian Greene, Brian Whelahan & Jamsie O’Connor.
Q6. Your Biggest Fear? Rats or Mice.
Q7. What is your Favourite Food? Fish.
Q8. What is your Favourite Film? Anchorman (What a legend).
Q9. What is your Favourite Music? Everything (depends).
Q10. What is your Favourite Holiday Destination? South Africa.
Q11. Best sporting event Watched/Witnessed: Nadal v Djokovic. 2011 American Open. Flushing Meadows Monday Night was incredible.
Q12. Best Mount Sion memory? 2002 Munster Club Final (nearly died of Hyperthermia).
Q13. What has been your greatest moment in sport? 2002 Munster Final v Tipperary, with Munster Club a close second.
Q14. What is your favourite Hurling ground? Croke Park.
Q15. What celebrity do you think you most look like and why? Brad Pitt in fight club – what an animal in that ha.
Q16. What is the toughest part of your sporting life? Missing out on a lot of occasions with my friends (weddings, stags) Holidays plus the disappointment of losing.
Q17. Most memorable game and why? Against Tipperary in 2008 Semi-Final, we played with freedom and style.
Q18. If you were an animal, what kind would you be? Horse – a through-bread – Sea of the Stars, Galileo, George Washington, Falbrav – one of them.
Q19. In your opinion what is the worst invention ever created? Why? Mobile Phone – can be a conversation killer & everyone can’t do without one, including me!!
Q20. What is your secret skill? Maths very good with numbers!
Q21. Who is your ideal date, why? Mila Kunis – we would have a good conversation!!
Q22. If you had 3 people around for dinner, who would they be and why? Colm Meaney, Will Farrell & Homer Simpson – we would have some laugh all night, some craic!
Q23. Who is the best & worst dressed on your team, why? Ian Power is the best – Everything seems tight on him perfectly. Frisby is the worst – Brown Leather Jacket, enough said!!
Q24. Who is the longest in the showers after training? Tony Browne how that man still has skin surprises me.
Q25. If you could go back in time, where would you go? I’d go back to the 1970s cool time, music, clothes – Brilliant!
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? Messi of Barcelona – the way he wins games and destroys teams is a joy to watch – best ever!
Q27. What rule would you change in the GAA and why? Draw – should be no draws it’s a nightmare – extra time.
Q28. Who do you admire most in Mount Sion, why? Anthony Kirwan – man does an unbelievable amount of work between pitch, training teams, hurley and improvements to the club.
Q29. Advise to younger players…. Listen to coaches and try improve on your weaknesses, plus be committed and honest.
Q30. In ten years time, I hope to be……… Still involved in hurling in Mount Sion at underage or Senior Level.