Waterford's Paul Flynn NAME: Paul Flynn DATE OF BIRTH: 17/12/74 HEIGHT: 5' 10" WEIGHT: 12st 10lbs CLUB: Ballygunner COUNTY: Waterford HONOURS: Munster Minor medal 1992; Munster and All-Ireland Under 21 medals 1992; County Senior and Minor medals 1992; Munster Under 21 medal 1994; Railway Cup medal 1994 INTER COUNTY DEBUT: Munster Senior Championship against KErry 23/5/93 (not the best of starts) TOUGHEST OPPONENT: All tough FAVOURITE GROUNDS: Pairc Ui Chaoimh and Semple Stadium (Thurles) OTHER SPORTING INTERESTS: Played a bit of soccer and golf FAVOURITE POSITION: Left corner forward BOYHOOD HEROES: John Fenton (Cork) and Joe Cooney (Galway) FAVOURITE PLAYERS: Joe Cooney (Galway), DJ Carey (Kilkenny) BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CAREER: My father Pat who also played with Waterford in the 70s THE HIGH POINT OF YOUR CAREER TO DATE: Winning All-Ireland Under 21 medal against Offaly in 1992 in Nowlan Park OTHER PLAYERS WITH A PROMISING FUTURE: Barry Walsh (Waterford), Ger Harris (Waterford) WAYS OF IMPROVING THE GAME: Keep the normal two catch rule DISLIKES ABOUT THE GAA: The way players can be taken for granted and organisation of underage compared to other sports e.g. soccer HOPES FOR 1995: To reach an All-Ireland Under 21 Final THE LOSSES TO CLARE IN THE NATIONAL HURLING LEAGUE SEMI FINAL AND TO TIPP IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP MUST HAVE BEEN VERY DISAPPOINTING. WHAT WENT WRONG? A Clare goal, combined with two or three quick points, and things didn't really run right for us on the day. Against Tipp we never really got going CAN WATERFORD COME BACK FROM THESE SETBACKS? Yeh! We are all young enough to put it behind us, every team has a bad day. Things can get a lot better for us in 1996! YOU MUST HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO BE REUNITED WITH THE TRIUMVIRATE - PETER POWER, JOE CARTON AND TONY MANSFIELD - WHO MASTERMINDED THE ALL-IRELAND UNDER 21 SUCCESS OF 1992? We played in '92 under them and now things are looking better and their contribution was enormous to our good League run, which did end disappointingly Taken from Hogan Stand magazine 16th June 1995 Vol 5 No 24 Tweet

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