Galway's David John Tierney NAME: David John Tierney DATE OF BIRTH: 21-10-79 HEIGHT: 6' WEIGHT: 13st CLUB: Kilnadeema/Leitrim - hurling; Loughrea - football COUNTY: Galway NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (GAELIC): 1 National Hurling League; 1 Railway Cup; 3 Vocational Schools All-Ireland - hurling; football - 1 County Vocational Connacht; 1 U21 Connacht; 1 Senior Connacht NOTABLE SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS (OTHER): Athletics - a couple of county cross-country trophies TOUGHEST OPPONENT: John Reddan (Clare minor All-Ireland Final 1997) FAVOURITE FOOD: Plaice HOBBIES: Watching TV, swimming, go cart racing - just chilling out basically VICES: Extremely lazy when the mood takes NOMINATE WORLD'S LAZIEST PERSON: Niall Kelly - college housemate MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Getting sick from drink in front of Galway team manager, selectors, officials and their wives FAVOURITE PLAYERS: Gabriel Batistuta or Rui Costa SPORTS LEGEND YOU MOST ADMIRE: Hugh Whiriskey 'The Great One' - seriously though Joe Cooney INFLUENCES ON YOUR CAREER: Michael Boyle, Stuart Moloney and my "Mammy" CHOSEN SPECIALIST SUBJECT ON MASTERMIND: Guessing woman's bra sizes BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Losing the All-Ireland Minor Final in 1997 to Clare and not performing to our potential FAVOURITE OLYMPIC SPORT: Speed walking maybe, though my favourite would be the 100m sprint FAVOURITE CARTOON CHARACTER: Homer Simpson IDEAL DRINKING COMPANY: John Dooley - always willing at any time, anywhere! GAA GRIPES: Pretending to be an amateur organisation when it most certainly is not RELATIVES INVOLVED IN GAELIC GAMES: Derek Hardiman is a first cousin of mine, he is wing back on this year's U21 Galway hurling team FAVOURITE ACTOR: Mel Gibson WHAT FILM WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO STAR IN: American Pie FAVOURITE BOOK: Can't think of a name of one - my english teacher will love that! FAVOURITE MUSIC: Moby, Fatboy Slim, Deacon Blue WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WON THE LOTTO: Get drunk as a fart. Give up anything strenuous, build an airport in my neighbouring village Newtowndaly IF YOU HAPPENED UPON A TIME MACHINE, WHERE WOULD YOU TRAVEL AND WHEN: I would travel back weeks so that I know not to go and meet the man, and let him pass the ball to Andy Comerford for the easiest goal of his career - no disrespect Andy! IDEAL BATHTUB COMPANION: I suppose I had better say my girlfriend or else she'd kill me! HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED: As an ordinary guy, who made a difference - ha ha! HOW DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE REMEMBERED: Oh ya, I remember him, he was the guy with the long hair who used to play football or was it soccer ... his name was, was it ... Derek, David or even Declan. Who cares, he was no good anyways!! Taken from Hogan Stand magazine November 2000 Vol 10 No 37 Tweet

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