Down's Graham Clarke NAME: Graham Clarke DATE OF BIRTH: 27-3-74 HEIGHT: 5' 7" WEIGHT: 11st CLUB: Ballygalget COUNTY: Down NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (GAELIC): 3 Down SHC & Man of the Match; 1 Ulster SHC; 4 Down Minor HC; 1 Ulster Minor HC INTERCOUNTY DEBUT: 1993 in Hilltown, Co. Down against Meath (challenge game) TOUGHEST OPPONENT: None really but out team find it hard to score past Noel Keith FAVOURITE GROUNDS: Ballygalget; Gaelic Grounds, Limerick; Croke Park HOBBIES: Reading and collecting old programmes FAVOURITE POSITION: Goalkeeper FAVOURITE PLAYERS: David Fitzgerald, DJ Carey, John Fenton INFLUENCES ON YOUR CAREER: My father and everyone at Ballygalget HC THE HIGH POINT OF YOUR CAREER TO DATE: Playing against Tipp in the All-Ierland Quarter Final BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: My brother Declan being unable to play hurling along with me (through no fault of his own) OTHER PLAYERS WITH A PROMISING FUTURE: Cathal Savage, Ballygalget; Aidan Delargy, Cosendal; Eugene O'Neill, Tipperary WAYS OF IMPROVING THE GAME: The umpires in a game should be more involved DISLIKES ABOUT THE GAA: American football matches in Croke Park when hurlers like myself train all our lives for a game in Croke Park DO YOU HAVE ANY RELATIVES INVOLVED IN GAELIC GAMES: My uncle Gabriel is a selector with Ballygalget seniors; my uncle Sean is Portaferry's manager; all my relations are involved PERSON YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET: John Barnes, the boys used to keep me going about having the same haircut as him years ago FAVOURITE PERSONAL SAYING OR TERM OF ABUSE: 'How are you getting on?' PET HATES: Smoking FAVOURITE MUSIC: Wolfe Tones IDEAL DATE: Claudia Schieffer, Mary Doolan, Killarney HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED? As a person who put everything in to his club and equally to his county Taken from Hogan Stand magazine 23rd January 1998 Vol 8 No 4 Tweet

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