Taken from Hogan Stand magazine September 2000 Mayo's Ronan Walsh NAME: Ronan James Walsh DATE OF BIRTH: 23/09/82 HEIGHT: 5ft. 10 inches WEIGHT: 12 stone BOOT SIZE: 9 1/2 CLUB: Shrule/Glencorrib COUNTY: Mayo GAA HONOURS: All-Ireland Minor runners-up medal '99, two Connacht Minor medals, three Connacht Colleges titles, travelled to San Francisco in '98 with Connacht U17 Development Panel, six county titles OTHER SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS: Played soccer with Riverside Celtic, winning many competitions; competed in community games; competed in athletic competitions TOUGHEST OPPONENT: Marking my clubmate Conor Mortimer in a colleges match FAVOURITE FOOD: Chicken curry and rice HOBBIES: Golf, playing pool, watching television (not), cinema, going out with the lads, and sometimes maybe fishing MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Fell off a stage when I was dancing in a competition FAVOURITE PLAYERS: Anthony Tohill, Seamus Moynihan, Oisin McConville SPORTS LEGENDS YOU MOST ADMIRE: Pele, Michael Jordan INFLUENCES ON YOUR CAREER: Tom Payne, Peter Forde, JP Keane CHOSEN SPECIALIST SUBJECT ON MASTERMIND: Music BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Losing last year's All-Ireland minor final FAVOURITE OLYMPIC SPORT: 100 metres FAVOURITE CARTOON CHARACTER: Homer Simpson IDEAL DRINKING COMPANY: Anyone whose up for a good laugh, funny and ready for a good night out RELATIVES INVOLVED IN GAELIC GAMES: My brother Kieran and cousin Derek both play with me on my club team FAVOURITE ACTOR: Samuel L. Jackson WHAT FILM WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO STAR IN: Rocky FAVOURITE MUSIC: Dance WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WON THE LOTTO: Travel the world IF YOU HAPPENED TO CHANCE UPON A TIME MACHINE, WHERE WOULD YOU TRAVEL AND WHEN: Dinosaur time DREAM BATH-TUB COMPANION: Jennifer Lopez HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED: A person with a good sense of humour, good personality, (good footballer with an All-Ireland medal), and to be a loyal and sincere person in whatever I did HOW DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE REMEMBERED: A fairly decent footballer who tried hard, loyal to both my club and county and always up for a bit of crack Tweet

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