Five Minutes with – Derry’s Aidan McAlynn

Name: | Aidan McAlynn |
Age: | 29
Occupation: | Joiner

Teams played for:

Derry and St.Patricks Loup

If you were throwing a party and you could invite anyone in the world, dead or alive, who would you ask around?

Conor McGregor, Mike Tyson, Joe Brolly and Michelle Keegan

Where do you like to go out to celebrate after a big victory?

Obviously Loup Social club

If you weren’t playing GAA what would you be at?

Something that doesn’t involve early morning sessions… Possibly darts

What’s the worst pitch you’ve ever played on?

Back pitch at St Pats Maghera in the middle of January… brutal

Which character in any film are you most like?

Channing Tatum in Magic Mike

What’s your preferred brand of gear?

Changed from Adidas to New Balance boots, still can’t score

Who’s the biggest joker in the teams you play for?

Thomas “John Deere” McVey

Which team mate has the best looking other half?

Paul Young

Who is the worst trainer?

Brian Doyle

Who spends most time in front of the mirror in the dressing room?

Sean Rocks with his bag of goodies

Who’s the best/worst person to share a room with on away trips?

Chrissy McKaigue – strange man

Who’s the best/worst person to sit beside on the team bus?

Barry McGoldrick even gives off in his sleep

Who has the best and who has the worst diet on the team, and what does it include?

Terence O’Brien and his buffalo beef

Toughest opponent you have faced?

Alan Brogan

Best or worst quote you’ve heard, either from a manager, player, opponent?

‘Take the balls lads, I mean hey, u play with the f****** thing’

Best manager you’ve ever played under?

Malachy O’Rourke

Best ever performance?

Against Down in qualifier 2013

One to forget?

Ulster club Final 2009 -disaster

When you were playing in the back garden, who did you pretend to be?

Always Anthony Tohill

If there was a transfer market who’d be in and who’d be out of the team?

Diarmuid Connelly for Joe O Kane, he’s getting crabbit in his old age.

Aidan McAlynn playing for Derry in 2014