Dublin's Barry Gogarty NAME: Barry Gogarty DATE OF BIRTH: 23-5-77 HEIGHT: 5' 10" WEIGHT: 13st 4lbs CLUB: Naomh Mearnog (Portmarnock) COUNTY: Dublin NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (GAELIC): Winning Dublin Schools Senior Football Championship 1995 NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (OTHER): Leinster Schools Basketball winners with Portmarnock CS; runner up Community Games, basketball; selected for Leinster tennis squad INTERCOUNTY DEBUT: Challenge v Armagh in Lurgan, September 1996; League v Clare, Parnell Park, November 24th 1996 TOUGHEST OPPONENT: Ciaran O'Mahony - Clare FAVOURITE GROUNDS: Blackwood Lane, Portmarnock and Croke Park HOBBIES: Playing sport, watching sport and talking sport. Going to the cinema FAVOURITE POSITION: Corner forward FAVOURITE PLAYERS: Paddy Moran, John O'Leary, Peter Canavan, James McCartan INFLUENCES ON YOUR CAREER: Teachers - Mr O'Cearra, Mr McCarthy - Portmarnock CS THE HIGH POINT OF YOUR CAREER TO DATE: Winning Intermediate League and Championship 1996 with Naomh Mearnog BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Being beaten in first round of Minor Championship by Kildare 1995 OTHER PLAYERS WITH A PROMISING FUTURE: Paul Croft - Naomh Barrog; David Toft - Naomh Mearnog (keeper) WAYS OF IMPROVING THE GAME: Cut down on pulling and dragging DISLIKES ABOUT THE GAA: Lack of vision in not allowing some players to earn money from the game they excel in DO YOU HAVE ANY RELATIVES INVOLVED IN GAELIC GAMES?: Father played for Dublin in the seventies - Paddy Gogarty; Grandfather Sean O'Siochain - former Director General of the GAA PERSON YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET: Eric Cantona, so I can find out what makes him tick - favourite player PET HATES: Inconsistent refs! FAVOURITE MUSIC: U2 FAVOURITE FILM: JFK IDEAL DATE: My girlfriend Claire Duane HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED? As a player who was always exciting to watch Taken from Hogan Stand magazine 10th January 1997 Vol 7 No 2 Tweet

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