Carlow's Mary Coady NAME: Mary Coady DATE OF BIRTH: 22-4-77 HEIGHT: 5' 5" WEIGHT: 10st 2lbs CLUB: St Mullins (Naomh Moling) COUNTY: Carlow NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (GAELIC): Leinster Junior Championship medal 1993 with Carlow; Borris Vocational School Senior Player of the Year 1994; Under 16 Carlow Player of the Year 1991; Camogie Player of the Year in Carlow in 1996; Carlow Sports Star for Camogie 1996; Leinster Junior panelist 1994; captained UCD Freshers team to Intervarsities Championship 1995/96; Intervarsities Combined team member 1996/97 INTERCOUNTY DEBUT: v Louth, National League 1991 TOUGHEST OPPONENT: Edel Mason (Down) FAVOURITE GROUNDS: Carlow town hurling club grounds, Dr Cullen Park or Pairc Naomh Moling (my own club ground) HOBBIES: All sports (especially GAA), cinema, drama, table quizzes FAVOURITE POSITION: Right midfield FAVOURITE PLAYERS: My brother Pat, Angela Downey (Kilkenny), Denise Galligan (Galway), Tom Dempsey and Larry O'Gorman (Wexford), DJ Carey (Kilkenny) INFLUENCES ON YOUR CAREER: Parents Patsy and Paggy, PJ and Joan McDonald, Josephine Doyle (club trainers), Cathleen Murphy (former club trainer), Pat McNally (county trainer), Mary Smith (school trainer and fellow player) THE HIGH POINT OF YOUR CAREER TO DATE: Winning the All-Ireland Feile na nGael with St Mullins in 1991, and the Leinster Championship Final victory, with Carlow in 1993 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Being defeated in the All-Ireland Vocational Schools semi-final by one point in 1993 and losing the Ashbourne Shield Final with UCD in 1996/97 OTHER PLAYERS WITH A PROMISING FUTURE: Catriona Murphy (Carlow), Jennifer Nevin (Carlow), Maeve Corcoran (Tipperary) WAYS OF IMPROVING THE GAME: Better media coverage for younger players and ladies games, more emphasis on the coaching of skills at juvenile level. Promotion of indoor GAA games during the winter months DISLIKES ABOUT THE GAA: It does not pay nearly enough attention to camogie and ladies football DO YOU HAVE ANY RELATIVES INVOLVED IN GAELIC GAMES?: My brother Pat plays senior hurling for St. Mullins and Carlow. My sister Helen plays camogie for St Mullins PERSON YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET: I would like to meet the Director General of RTE so that I can remind him that camogie and ladies football actually do exist and deserve just as much coverage as their male equivalents! PET HATES: Breaking hurleys that I have just bought. Narrow playing pitches. Waiting for buses FAVOURITE MUSIC: Anything by The Cranberries or Gareth Brooks FAVOURITE FILM: Either Cry Freedom or Michael Collins IDEAL DATE: George Clooney (Doug Ross from ER) HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED? Fondly Taken from Hogan Stand magazine 29th January 1999 Vol 9 No 5 Tweet

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