Kilpatrick Enda
November 15, 1991
NAME: Enda Kilpatrick
DATE OF BIRTH: 16-3-65
HEIGHT: 6' 2"
WEIGHT: 14st
CLUB: Pomeroy
COUNTY: Tyrone
PLACE OF WORK: Teacher, Carrickmore
HONOURS: Ulster Senior Football Championship 1989; Railway Cup medal and a Tyrone Intermediate Championship with my club this autumn
INTER-COUNTY DEBUT: versus Armagh in the first round of the Ulster Senior Football Championship in 1987
TOUGHEST OPPONENT: Teddy McCarthy and Willie Joe Padden
FAVOURITE GROUNDS: Armagh and Irvinestown
FAVOURITE POSITION: Centre half back
SPORTING AMBITION: To win that elusive All-Ireland medal in 1992. Down have shown all the rest in Ulster just how it can be done
DO YOU PLAY ANY OTHER SPORTS: Handball, basketball and a bit of golf. I have played school basketball for Ireland. Liam McHale was on the same team
BOYHOOD HEROES: The big two in Tyrone during the late 70s and early 80s - Frank McGuigan and Eugene McKenna
FAVOURITE PLAYER AT PRESENT: Bernard Flynn and Plunkett Donaghy
BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CAREER: Art McCrory
DISLIKES ABOUT THE GAA: None whatsoever. Gaelic football and hurling are the greatest games in the world
WAYS OF IMPROVING THE GAME: More consistent refereeing
BEST GAME SEEN: From a great team performance point of view, it has to be Tyrone's victory over Kerry in the All-Ireland final earlier in the year. Also, those Meath-Dublin clashes took a lot of beating
PLAYERS WITH A PROMISING FUTURE: Tyrone's Terrible Twins - Cush and Canavan, also Christopher and Stephen Lawn
ANY FAMOUS RELATIONS: Well, I happen to be a first cousin of a fella called Peter Canavan. I suppose a few of you will have heard of him
Editors note: Enda is the new Tyrone senior team captain
Taken from Hogan Stand magazine
15th November 1991
Vol 1 No 35
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