Galway's John Culkin NAME: John Culkin DATE OF BIRTH: 23-8-81 HEIGHT: 6' WEIGHT: 12st 7lbs BOOT SIZE: 12 CLUB: Abbeyknockmoy Hurling Club COUNTY: Galway NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (GAELIC): Captain Galway All-Ireland Minor winning team, Munster Colleges medal winner, Railway Cup medal, club football county champions NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (OTHER): Played U18 rugby for Connacht, county football championship winner, Irish trials for Irish youth rugby TOUGHEST OPPONENT: David Forde (Galway) FAVOURITE FOOD: Lasagne with chips and coke HOBBIES: Soccer, football, rugby, computer games, reading, sleeping VICES: Witty, good humoured, a lot of patience NOMINATE WORLD'S LAZIEST PERSON: Ivan Canning (minor sub keeper) MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Running onto a soccer pitch without my shorts on FAVOURITE PLAYERS: John Troy, Seanie McGrath, Tommy Dunne SPORTS LEGEND YOU MOST ADMIRE: Joe Cooney INFLUENCES ON YOUR CAREER: My father, Barney Costello (neighbour) CHOSEN SPECIALIST SUBJECT ON MASTERMIND: Galway minors 1999-2000 BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Losing All-Ireland Colleges Final in 2000 FAVOURITE OLYMPIC SPORT: Any woman activity (men's 100m) FAVOURITE CARTOON CHARACTER: Yogi Bear and BooBoo IDEAL DRINKING COMPANY: Conor Dervan, Fergal Healy GAA GRIPES: U21 Championship in many counties are too long FAVOURITE ACTOR: Adam Sandler (Happy Gilmore) WHAT FILM WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO STAR IN: American Pie FAVOURITE BOOK: The Twits (reminds me of David Forde and Ronan O'Reilly) FAVOURITE MUSIC: Dance, classical WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WON THE LOTTO: Go to Hawaii for a month, buy a Ferrari and a big new house IF YOU HAPPENED TO CHANCE UPON A TIME MACHINE, WHERE WOULD YOU TRAVEL AND WHEN: Croke Park in 1980. Galway won the All-Ireland DREAM BATHTUB COMPANION: Christina Aguilera HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED: He was intelligent and a good athlete, a nice guy HOW DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE REMEMBERED: He was a fool who was lazy, but also a nice guy Taken from Hogan Stand magazine 19th May 2000 Vol 10 No 20 Tweet

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