Joe’s a talented dual star
Age: 11
Club: An Tochar (football) and Kilcoole (hurling)
Favourite position on the team: Football: midfield; Hurling: centre-forward
Best game you were ever involved in and why? 2019, under-11 hurling vs Aughrim. First match Kilcoole were beaten well, return match was score for score all through the game and we won by a point at the end.
Best game you ever watched and why? All-Ireland football final in 2016. Mayo vs Dublin: draw.
Favourite player from your own club? Ronan Keddy
Favourite Wicklow player? Mikey Lee
Favourite national player? Joe Canning (hurling) and Lee Keegan (football).
Your sporting dream for 2021: To win a final!
Your sporting dream overall: To play county hurling and football.
Name of your school and your honest opinion of it: St Lawrence O’Toole Roundwood. Good school but there needs to be more sport!
Favourite subject: PE, maths and geography.
Favourite teacher: and Ms Healy.
Name something you really like about your school? No homework on Fridays.
Mr Flood
What would you like to do when you leave school? I’d like to be farmer, a fisherman and a GPO.
In your own words, explain what you love most about your club: All my friends are on the team and the team is very strong. For hurling: that my Dad played for Kilcoole and I do as well.
In your own words, what improvements could be made in how your sport is organised that could help you enjoy the game more? It’s all perfect!
Favourite sporting venue in Wicklow: Ballinakill
Favourite sporting venue in Ireland: Croke Park
Favourite sports commentator: Henry Shefflin
Favourite computer game: FIFA 21
Favourite food: Spice Bag Most annoying habit in a teammate: Shouting for a pass when they are in a bad position.
Most annoying habit in a coach: That I don’t get frees when I am fouled in training games.
What’s the one thing you look forward to most at training or a game? I love to score in games.
What’s the one thing you don’t look forward to at training or a game? That the guy marking me is very tough.
Best thing a coach ever said to you: The county needs lads like you!
If your coach was an animal, what would he/she be? Cheetah.
Best nickname in your club: Gummy
Have you any peculiar habits before a game? Tuck jumps.
If lockdown was a food, what would it be? Quiche, because no-one likes it.
How have you found Covid-19? I hate missing matches.
If you were elected Chairperson of Wicklow GAA what would be the first thing you’d do or change? County teams for under-11s.
If you could jump forward 20 years, how would you hope you had lived your life on and off the field and what would you like to have achieved? I’d like to have won a few championships and senior awards.
What do you like about yourself? That I love the outdoors farming and on the pitch.
What’s in your pockets right now? (Be honest) €13.20
If you had one wish right now, what would you wish for? To be back training and playing matches.