This week it's Lansdowne and Leinster flanker Aidan McCullen. Unfortunately he's out of action through injury for the rest of the season, so we decided to cheer him up and offer the opportunity to reveal his innermost thoughts on life and all things that aren't rugby.

1. Favourite line from a movie? "Never get with a woman that you can't leave after five minutes when you feel the heat at your back coming round the corner." Robert De Nero offers the advice in the film Heat.

2. What's your nickname? "Lard is what I am called most often. I suppose it's because I'm not very big or fat. A less well known one is DJ Bone which arose from a Leinster Schools tour to Australia in 1995. I do a little bit of DJ work in my spare time so the boys christened me DJ Bone."

3. What is the most recent book that you have read? Flaubert - The Sentimental Education. Well I'm studying French at college and I just wanted to keep up so that's what I am reading. It about this guy who falls in love with an older woman and the trials and tribulations of his life." (Editor's note: about time we found a forward with an education.)

4. Two things/people that you would bring to a Desert Island? "The first would be Adriana Karambeu, the wife of Middlesbrough and French international Christian, and secondly it would have to be the French actress/singer/model Orphelie Winter, who could sing me to sleep."

5. Meat and two vegetables or Lemon Sole with a garlic jus? "When I go out to eat I like to try new things, but usually I would just eat a lot of plain food. I suppose the dish I like best is pasta carbonara. I'm sure it's unusual for a rugby player to like pasta given that we have to eat it all the time, but I do."

6. Favourite other sport outside of rugby? "In terms of playing, I started out as a Gaelic footballer with the St Brigid's Club. I played there up until under-15 level either at full back or full forward so that was my first love. To watch, it has to be soccer. I am a Manchester United fan."