Five minutes with – Monaghan’s Dermot Malone

Name: | Dermot Malone |
Age: | –
Occupation: | –

Teams played for:

Monaghan

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

Georgia Salpa, Kevin Bridges, The Rock

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

The Spinning Wheel

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

Playing soccer

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

Stony Meadow – Doohamlet

Which character in any film are you most like?

White Goodman

Any odd items in your kit bag?

About four pairs of boots

What’s your preferred brand of gear?

Gaelic Performance

21 June 2015; Dermot Malone, Monaghan. Ulster GAA Football Senior Championship Semi-Final, Monaghan v Fermanagh, Kingspan Breffni Park, Cavan. Picture credit: Dáire Brennan / SPORTSFILE

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

I’d be a bit of a messer but Karl O’Connell and Butsy McBennett are always up to no good.

Which team mate has the best looking other half?

He may deny it, but the brother Fergal is in a relationship so I’ll give him the nod

Who is the worst trainer?

Dick Clerkin and John Beattie are the two bluffers

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

Padraig Donaghy is the ultimate spiceboy

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

Best: Vinnie Corey – lights out by 11. Worst: Padraig Donaghy – lights out at 4am

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

Best: Karl O’Connell for making prank calls all the time

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

Best: Dessie Mone. Worst: Baldy Paudy McKenna

Toughest opponent you have faced?

Sean Leo McGoldrick

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

“A wide is as good as a point”

Best manager you’ve ever played under?

Big Mal

Best ever performance?

Ulster Minor Semi Final against Derry 2008

One to forget?

Ulster Minor championship against Derry in 2007 – we only scored a point

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

Peter Canavan

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

Straight out with Karl O’Connell and in with his brother Kieron. On the club scene out with Brian Flanagan and in with Monty Boylan

Dermot Malone provided us with this wonderful picture of one of his team mates, Dick Clerkin