Player Profiles
Darragh Mahoney
DOB: | 22/08/1987 |
Height: | 6"2 |
Weight: | 89kg |
Honours Won: | 1 Junior A Football Championship, 1 Junior A Hurling Championship, 1 Junior B Hurling Championship, various school medals and underage medals |
Occupation: | Social care worker |
Change one thing in the GAA: | More 'official' steps to be taken in both hurling and football when receiving the ball. 6/7 should suffice. |
Favourite sport / activity other than GAA: | Soccer or basketball |
Best player ever played against: | Astroturf soccer with Phelim 'the goal hanger' O'Connell!! |
Best player ever played with: | Mark Sheehan. Epitomises dedication at club level. His attention to detail in terms of keeping himself in great shape is frigthening. Richie Ryan taught him well! |
Most important skill in Hurling and Football: | First touch. Once the ball/sliothar is in your hand, you're in charge and can make anything you want happen |
If I had to phone a friend on ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’, I would call | John Quinn |
Most influential mentor/ person in the Club when I was growing up: | Alan O'Regan. Never afraid to tell me I was playing shit on any given day |
Best memory as a Kilshannig player: | Winning the North Cork Junior Football 2014 |
Most dissapointing moment in your career: | Being subbed off in a hurling game a few years back for Richie Ryan to take my place. It was a long drive home that night! |
You may not know it, but I’m also good at: | Eating loads of food |
The funniest person on our team is: | Denny McCarthy |
Favourite music currently in the ipod /cd player: | Love a bit of Coldplay |
My favourite food is: | Bacon, cabbage, spuds and white sauce |
If there was a ‘transfer market’ who would you buy? | Football - Michael Murphy, Hurling - JJ Delaney |
The best invention ever: | Mobile phone |
Person you would most like to meet: | The woman who's going to make me an honest man someday. She'd want to hurry on!! |
Marooned on a desert island what could you not be without: | Water |