Galway's Shay Walsh NAME: Shay Walsh DATE OF BIRTH: 11-6-75 HEIGHT: 6' 1" WEIGHT: 14st CLUB: Glenamaddy COUNTY: Galway NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (GAELIC): 1 Connacht MFC medal; 1 Connacht Junior medal; 1 Connacht Under 21 medal; 1 Connacht Senior medal; 1 All-Ireland Senior medal; 1 FBD Connacht League medal TOUGHEST OPPONENT: Mark O'Reilly (Meath) FAVOURITE GROUNDS: Croke Park, Tuam Stadium, Hyde Park (Roscommon) HOBBIES: Cinema, socialising, listening to music, golf FAVOURITE POSITION: Centre half forward THE WORST PLAYER TO TRAIN THAT YOU KNOW: Kevin Walsh (Galway) MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT ON OR OFF THE FOOTBALL FIELD: Getting football into groin vs Dublin in a challenge match in April 1998 FAVOURITE PLAYERS: Maurice Fitzgerald, Declan Keane (Kilkerrin/Clonberne), Sean Og de Paor, Peter Canavan INFLUENCES ON YOUR CAREER: Parents, John O'Mahony, Peadar Brandon (National School teacher) THE HIGH POINT OF YOUR CAREER TO DATE: Winning All-Ireland in 1998 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Losing Connacht Final in 1996 OTHER PLAYERS WITH A PROMISING FUTURE: Paul Geraghty (Glenamaddy), Thomas Giblin (Glenamaddy), Brian McDonald (Laois) WAYS OF IMPROVING THE GAME: Stop experimenting with stupid rules during winter, allow goals to be handpassed, semi-professionalism DISLIKES ABOUT THE GAA: Inconsistent refereeing, their secrecy on what is being done with the money they have RELATIVES INVOLVED IN GAELIC GAMES: First cousin Eoin Goodwin (Miltown, Galway, former Galway minor and Under 21); first cousin John Walsh, Galway junior hurler; uncle Christy Tyrrell, Galway 3-in-a-row team 1964, 65, 66; first cousin Karl Kerrane, Donegal Under 16 footballer PERSON YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET: Homer Simpson FAVOURITE PERSONAL SAYING OR TERM OF ABUSE: 'How's the craic' PET HATES: Smoking, putting on wet football boots, haircuts FAVOURITE MUSIC: Chart music, REM, Radiohead, Oasis FAVOURITE FILM: Jerry Maguire WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WON THE LOTTO: Quit work, and train professionally while playing county football. Bring all Galway panel to Las Vegas for a week PERSON LEAST WELCOME AT YOUR HOME: Mike Tyson after crashing his car! IDEAL DATE: Natalie Imbruglia HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED: As a person who lived by the motto, 'it's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice' Taken from Hogan Stand magazine 25th June 1999 Vol 9 No 26 Tweet

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