20 Questions With Noel McGrath

1. When are you happiest?

Relaxing at home on the couch watching sport

2. What is the best advice you’ve ever been given?

Practice as much as possible at home and away from the training field. It can be easy to leave down the Hurley for a few days after team training is finished

3. What’s your most treasured possession?

My Cooper Helmet

4. Past, present or future, which five people are on the guest list for your ideal dinner party??

Ronan O’Gara, David Beckham, Tiger Woods, Jennifer Anniston and Dan Carter

5. Do you have any pre-match rituals?

No

6. What is one moment in GAA history that you will never forget?

Being on the pitch after the All Ireland in 1996. My first ever All Ireland. I can’t remember the match!

7. What quote do you live by?

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard

8. A film you’d watch again tonight?

Home Alone lost in New York

9. What is your favourite post-exercise snack?

Protein Milk and a Fulfill bar

10. What advice would you give to young hurlers who have ambitions of playing for their county?

Practice as often as possible and put everything you can into being the best you possibly can

11. What is your all-time favourite food?

Sweet and Sour chicken and rice

12. What song on your gym playlist always gets you in the zone?

I don’t have one

13. Your idea of hell on earth?

Pre-Season

14. Who is the one sports person living or dead that you wish you could meet?

Dan Carter

15. What is on your bucket list?

Round of Golf with Shane Lowry and Tiger Woods. Preferably in Augusta!!

16. Is there a simple nutrition tip you wish you knew sooner?

How important it is to refuel ASAP after training or game

17. It is your turn to cook, what is your go-to dinner you can throw together?

Sweet and Sour chicken and rice

18. What living person do you most admire?

Katie Taylor

19. How would you like to be remembered?

Someone who always done my best on the field and helped others off the pitch

20. What is the bravest thing you’ve ever done?

I’m  not that brave!!

Noel McGrath will be at the NDC stand at the National Ploughing Championships on the 17th September! Noel will be taking part in a sports nutrition panel discussion and chatting about Tipp’s road to victory as All Ireland champions this year . Come visit us in Block 3, Row 18, Stand 397 #Ploughing19