Name: Barry Dunne
DOB: 29/07/1981
Height: 5ft 10 "
Weight: 12st
Position: Backs
Occupation: Fund Accountant

Barry Dunne







Honours: Two County Intermediate Football medals, Junior Hurling County medal,County Football League Div 1 title,minor football county title,U-14 hurling county title.
   

Player you most admired as a youngster: Mikey Sheehy, Tiger O'Neill

Favourite Other Sport: Golf,cricket,mountaineering

Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: Gerd 'The Bomber' Muller

Most Difficult Opponent: Once marked Colm Cooper for fifteen long and painful minutes.

Most Memorable Moment: Me and Joe Salmon singing 'Lakes of Pontchartrain',1999.

Biggest Disappointment To Date: Not winning U-21 county title.

Biggest Influence: Tim Keeffe, Gerd Muller.

Ideal Date: Dick Hackett

Advice To Youngsters: 'Little flick,just give it a little flick,thats all it needs.Gerd Muller scored 68 goals in 62 games for the Germans.All of them were little flicks.'

 

 











Name: Cillian O'Keeffe
Date of Birth: 30/04/1986
Height: 5ft 11" (yes i am)
Weight: 11st
Occupation: Student

Cillian O'Keeffe





Honours: u21 'B' football title, 2 'B' Colleges Hurling titles, Egg
and Spoon race champion in Clashmore NS 'sports day', I once ate a
whole weel of cheese.


Player(s) you most admired as a youngster: Trevor Giles, Mike Fenton, Maurice Fitzgerald

Favourite Other Sport: enjoy playing a bit of casual soccer or sculpting the guns

Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: Robert Pires so i could kick him really hard

Most Difficult Opponent: Kieran Conners in training he's scary

Most Memorable Moment: U21 B Western Final 2005

Biggest Disappointment To Date: Not winning an A title

Biggest Influence: Any good forward except gooch I dont like him

Ideal Date: The woman that concieved Gerd Muller

Advice To Youngsters: The ideal omlett is cooked with 2 eggs

 

 





Padraig Connery

Name: Padraig Connery
Date of Birth: 9/08/83
Height: 5ft 10”
Weight: 14 stone
Occupation: Engineer
 


 

 






Honours: Munster Under 21 Football Medal, Two County Intermediate Football Medals, Two Western Intermediate football medals, one county league medal

Player you most admired as a youngster: Peter Canavan

Favourite Other Sport: Rugby

Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: Mick O’Dwyer / George Hook

Most Difficult Opponent: Michael Walsh

Favourite Food/Drink; Steak / Bulmers

Favourite TV Show: Scrubs

Most Memorable Moment: Winning Western Final in 2002 versus ring and getting Man of the Match that night

Biggest Disappointment To Date: Getting dropped for the quarter final this year

Biggest Influence: Timmy O’Keeffe, Kieran Connery

Who's Hot: Clashmore Hurling team

Who’s Not; Clashmore Football team

Advice To Youngsters: Stay involved in games throughout your life


Name: Declan Coughlan
Date of Birth: 03/08/88
Height: 5ft 10 3/8"
Weight: 12.5 stone - steadily increasing
Occupation: Student(most of the time)

Dec Coughlan

 

 




 



 

Honours: U14 County 'B' Football medal, U21 County 'B' Football medal

Player you most admired as a youngster: Mike Fenton, Tiger (when he was playing in goals...)
 

Favourite Other Sport: Rugby - "You actually can't throw that ball forward..."
 

Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: Paul O'Connell - What an animal!
 

Most Difficult Opponent: Cillian O'Keeffe - "he's as unpredictable..."

Favourite Food/Drink; Pancakes & A nice glass of chilled coke

Favourite TV Show: TV show - Lost, Music - a bit of Shnow Patrol, Killers, da usual

Most Memorable Moment: Winning that U14 county title - sure look at the smile on my face!
 

Biggest Disappointment To Date: Not winning more underage titles
 

Biggest Influence: Stephen Barron - he drives a lovely van too! Plus he's a major athlete...
 

Worst Drill/Best Drill: Worst - 6:4:6 - sorts the men from the fellas who need to puke
Favourite Biscuit; Toffee Pop

Advice To Youngsters: I like to think I still am one!



























 

Karl O'Keeffe

Name: Karl O’Keeffe
Date of Birth:09/05/1981
Height: 6’4 – 198.04cm
Weight:15.5 Stone - 98kg
Occupation: Electrical Engineer with ESB International

 


 

 






Honours:’99 Junior football Munster & All-Ireland, Club Intermediate football – ‘99 & ’02 & Jnr Hurling – ’00, Sports scholarship UCC, Captain of Club SF team and College SF team.

Player you most admired as a youngster: Fenton/Tiger – Maurice Fitz


Favourite Other Sport: Rugby


Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: George Hook


Most Difficult Opponent: Thomas Dee & Christy Toye

Favourite Food/Drink; Sea Bass & pint of Eric

Favourite TV Show: TV show - Reeling in the Years, Music - Damo Dempsey

Most Memorable Moment: Playing at no. 3 for Ireland VS. Australia in Croke Park, Coming on for Doc Hynes in Intermediate clash vs. Lismore – the night out after the game and the reason I hate cider, Beating Kerry in Kilarney U21 Football, First win for Waterford football on Ulster soil EVER – Breffni park ’06.


Biggest Disappointment To Date: Sigerson, U21's


Biggest Influence: Club & team mates, Tim O’Keeffe, Brendan Griffin, Liam O’Rourke, Eamonn Ryan, Liam O’Donnell, John Kiely, Greg Fives, Liam O’Laochdha.

Most Desirable Date: Sharon Ni Bheolain

Who’s hot: Jacksie, Jessica Alba & Muir (d Bird)

Who’s not: Tim & Eamonn doing their party pieces

Advise to younger players: Play as much as you can for as long as you can.

 

 

Seanie Beag

Name: Sean Fleming
Date of Birth:Sometime in October of 1985...
Height: 5' 9"
Weight:An unknown post Xmas weight
Occupation:Army Private
Nickname: Universally known as 'Beag'...or 'Seanie Beag'...or some derivative of same...

 





 

 












Honours:Western Under16 A Football, 2 County Schools Titles, Under 21 B County Title, Munster Under21 Football Championship 2003, Intermediate County Title

Favourite Pitch Played On: Gaelic Grounds, Limerick


Favourite Other Sport/Hobbies: Soccer, Golf


Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: Alan Shearer, Padraig Harrington


Most Difficult/Admired Opponent: Eoin Larkin, Kilkenny/ Colm Cooper, Kerry

Favourite Food/Drink; Chicken and Pasta & not a drink fan

Favourite Film: The Sound of Music....ahh Julie Andrews...

Favourite Saying: "How's Davy?"


Most Memorable Moment: Waterford winning Munster U21 championship in 2003


Biggest Disappointment To Date: Not winning a Senior football title


Best Match viewed/played in: Waterford beating Cork in the 2004 Munster Final

Ambition: Win a Senior Football County title with Clashmore

Advise to younger players: Always stay involved in sport

 

Eoin Kelly

Name: Eoin Kelly
Date of Birth: 19/11/88
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 3 1/2 stone
Occupation: Part-time Student, Part-time male-pair iceskater

 





 

 






Honours:U14 county B champion, Welly-throwing winner on Clashmore NS fun- day!!

Player you most admired as a youngster: Ronaldo,Karl O'Keeffe, Packie Bonner, John Kelly

 

Favourite Other Sport: Soccer, Cricket, Caravan Dancing

Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: Ronaldinho, so i could fix his teeth...Also Inzimam Ul-Haq,the big hadji


Most Difficult/Admired Opponent: Myself mentally and da guy that broke me,Jimmy McElroy.
Jimmy: "I see you're still fat Chazz...."
Chazz: "I see you still look like a 15-year old girl but not hot."

Favourite Food/Drink: Capri Sun & Oreo's

Favourite TV Show: Borat and any of my short films

Favourite Music: The Protruders, what else??


Most Memorable Moment: Scoring a penalty in the last minute in the Fraher field to send us into the county final...the stuff dreams are made of!


Biggest Disappointment To Date: Losing so many finals, breaking my leg...ouch! It's still crooked...so I kick for the corner now to get a point...


Biggest Influence: Chazz Michael Michaels - "Personal philosophy: clothing optional."

Favourite Quotes:
A quote i'll always remember
: Minutes after breaking my leg...
Johnny Flavin: Dont worry Kelly, its a clean break...
Eoin Kelly:.........?
Film Quote- Chazz: "Are you an official here?...coz you have officially given me a boner.."


Ideal date: A "nice" evening in Coolboa, followed by a steak dinner in The Decies...,a night at the cinema followed by a tractor-pull down at
Ardsallagh Pier.

Favourite Biscuit: Any USA biscuit...curiously only available around Christmas ?

Advise to younger players: Keep away from the black stuff for God's sake...

 

 

Strawhead

Name: Kevin Dunne
Date of Birth:12/2/1986
Height: 5' 10 "
Weight:12 stone
Occupation:Timber Technician
Nickname: "Kevin"

 





 

 






Honours:Western Under16 A Football, western B football, 2 County Schools Titles, Under 21 B County Title, 2 Heineken cup medals


Favourite Pitch Played On: John F Kennedy park. Knockanore



Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: Roy Keane


Most Difficult/Admired Opponent: Andrew Shaughnessy / John Coffey ("Like the drink...'cept not spelt the same...")

Scariest person I know: Sean Coyne

Favourite Food/Drink: Budweiser/Lasagne

Favourite Film: The Shawshank Redemption...tis fair moving!!

Favourite Saying: "That cool is hat... "


Most Memorable Moment: Driving my car into a pole...


Biggest Disappointment To Date: Realising he was still alive...


Best Match viewed/played in: Waterford beating Cork in the 2004 Munster Final

Ambition: To win a Senior Football County title with Clashmore

Advise to younger players: Pain is temporary, glory is forever

 

Fintan Breathnach

Name: Fintan Walsh
Date of Birth: 24/07/83
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 11 stone
Occupation: Television stuff

 





 

 






Honours:Dublin U14 Hurling League, Dublin Féile na nGael, Dublin Colleges Senior 'C' Football , Leinster Minor Championship & All Ireland Final 2001 (the view from the bench was great that day)

Player you most admired as a youngster: Dessie Farrell, what a legend



Favourite Other Sport: Hurling (I used to think I was good), Golf (I’m starting to think I am good), Rugby (Don’t think I’ll ever
be good at that, front row forward someday maybe?)

Sportsperson You'd Most Like To Meet: Roy Keane, a role model if ever there was one…just don’t ask Haaland

Most Difficult/Admired Opponent: Dick Hackett, don’t think I’ve scored a goal on him yet…some day soon Dec, some day soon

Favourite Food/Drink: Pasta & milk (does Franny read this?)

Favourite TV Show:Lost, I’m ashamed to say

Favourite Music:Killers, Snow Patrol, and a bit of Luke Kelly and the like every now and then


Most Memorable Moment: Pulling on the famous red & green of Clashmore for the very first time, there was a tear in my eye.


Biggest Disappointment To Date: Losing 2001 All Ireland, and not playing, my arse was numb from all that sitting on the bench


Biggest Influence: Na Fianna people, Dessie, the old man…and of course Dick Hackett who
thought me some finishing on those long summer evenings at Cross

Ambition: Just the one, to win a SFC with Clashmore.

Worst Drill/Best Drill: ehhhh…shooting practice.  Yea, I like that one

Favourite Biscuit: You cannot beat a Club Milk and I will argue with any man who says otherwise…and yes, it most definitely IS a biscuit, don’t mind the doubters

Advise to younger players: I’ll answer that in a few years, I’m too young for that