NAME ;      PAUL BUTLER

1. Age: 27

2. Club: Clarkes Nissan

3. GC: How did you get started in cycling?

    PB: Through Sean Kelly.

4. GC:  What was your first win?

    PB: Mitchelstown Grand Prix, 1987.

5. GC: How often do you train?

    PB:  Now, at the moment, three times a week.

6. GC: Favourite training spin?

    PB:  In Carrick-On_Suir, it’s the Ballimacarberry route and in Bettystown, it’s over Bellewstown and back into Drogheda.

7. GC: Best result / performance to date?

    PB:  Finishing the Prutour twice.

8. GC: Ambition in cycling?

    PB:  To get it as easy as possible

9. GC: Favourite professional cyclist?

    PB: Sean Kelly

10. GC: Pet hates?

      PB:  Smoking and ignorant French people.

11. GC: How do you relax?

      PB:  With my baby.

12. GC: Do you think 3^rd Cats should be re-introduced?

      PB:  No.

13. GC: Apart from Ireland, where have you raced?

      PB: France, Belgium, Spain, Malaysia. South Africa, Bermuda, Thailand, America, Canada

14. GC: Who will be the next Irish rider to win a Tour De France stage?

      PB: Mark Scanlon or Ciaran Power.

15. GC: Favourite race?

      PB:  Donore Grand Prix.

16. GC: Best rider you have raced against?

      PB: Andrea Taffi.

17. GC. Have you tried mountainbiking?

      PB; Yeah, I was sixth or something in one championship one year..

18. GC: What makes you a good cyclist?

      PB:  I’m ignorant and able to suffer.

19. GC: Would you let your kids take up the sport?

      PB;  Yeah.

20. GC: Describe yourself in one sentence?

      PB:  Little, small, man from Bettystown