TAKE 20: with Ross Byrrne
1. Pre-match meal? Spaghetti bolognese.
2. Favourite player growing up?
Australian fly-half Matt Giteau. Superb all-round player.
3. Best away-day room-mate and why?
Ross Molony. Pure banter from start to finish. And doesn’t snore. Key.
4. Who would headline your house party?
Coldplay
5. First song they would play?
‘Charlie Brown’.
6. You win the lotto, what is the first thing you would buy?
If it was the Euromillions, a private jet.
7. Favourite movie? ‘The Usual Suspects’.
8. Favourite TV show and why? ‘Game of Thrones’. There is simply nothing better on TV.
9. Earliest rugby memory growing up?
Playing rugby in school with Nick McCarthy.
10. Who is the joker in the dressing-room?
Max Deegan.
11. Favourite holiday destination and why?
Greece. Just very relaxing with everything you could possibly need for a sun holiday.
12. Favourite away ground to play at?
Liberty Stadium. Fantastic surface. Always immaculate.
13. Three people (dead or alive) who you would invite to dinner?
Jim Carrey, Mike McCarthy and Denzel Washington.
14. Most memorable moment in rugby?
Winning the Leinster Senior Cup with St Michael’s in
2012.
15. Do you have any prematch superstitions/rituals? No.
16. Who is the best player you have played alongside and why?
Rory Kavanagh. Played with him in St Michael’s and he ran the most perfect switch I have ever played with. Ferocious player too.
17. Who is the best player you have played against and why?
Maro Itoje the Saracens and England lock. Just an all-round freak of nature! The size of the man, the athleticism and great skills.
18. Can you tell us one interesting fact about yourself?
I was a movie critic a few years ago!
19. Name three things that are always in your fridge? Yoghurt, eggs and milk.
20. Best advice you ever got? You can’t change the past, only affect the future.