​1 Minute with Donal Laverty

1 Minute with................. 

Name: Donal Laverty

Club: St Ergnats Moneyglass

Position: Full Back

Favourite Pitch played on: Moneyglass, theres no place like home.

If you could invite 3 people to dinner - Alive or dead. Who would you invite? Fearghal Duffins secret girlfriend so we can finally find out who she is and the O'Donovan brothers that were rowing in the Olympics

Best Player you have played with: Kevin Brady would have got on any county team in the country in his prime and still going well.

Best Player you have played against: Kevin Niblock

Best game you have been involved in: IFC Final 2004 we beat Ahoghill 3:10 to 0:01

Best game you have ever seen: Ballinderry against Lavey in a Derry Championship semi final in Greenlough a few years back, was an unbelievable game of football.

Best trainer within the squad: Fearghal "we're not fit enough" Duffin

Worst training drill: Tackling Squares-Brutal

Favourite Song: Jay Z/Linkin Park - Numb/Encore

Favourite Film: Shutter Island 

Favourite Holiday Destination: Galway

Best advice ever received: Don't try and control the things you can't focus on the things you can.

Biggest influence on club career: Probably my Father, never really told me how to play or what to do but always had an unwavering belief in my ability and ensured in my younger days I got to wherever I needed to go to play or train.

Club Volunteer of note: Too many to mention, we're lucky in Moneyglass that there are a lot of people doing a serious amount of good work.

Biggest Strength in your game: Composure

Which club would you like to see do well apart from your own: Mitchels

Young Player within your club to look out for: There is a serious stream of talent emerging in Moneyglass with some great coaching going on. If i had to pick one Tiernan McCormack at Under 10 has all the attributes to go far if his progression continues

Best thing about the GAA: The joy and pride your club can bring to the community in both victory and defeat.

In 10 years time your club will: Back competing in division 1 and hopefully in new modern facilities