- He took the role of Darth Vader on a promotional tour for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) in association with LucasFilm & Aiken Promotions, after being spotted by Peter Aiken who was looking for a big guy to fill Darth's boots.
- He has provided Personal Security for U2's Bono on several occasions and also Denise Van Outen.
- He picked up his nickname "The Irish Curse" wrestling in the USA in 2002 after taking down a few opponents behind the referee's back with lethal low blows to that vital area where the sun-don't-shine! In Boston & New York The Irish Curse phrase refers to a guy who has had too much alcohol to perform in the bedroom department and was also used in that context in the movie Good Will Hunting.
- He is a Liverpool FC fan.
- He got talent spotted for a role in violent Irish movie 3Crosses after the film's producer, Jonathan Figgis, spotted him at a title match against Drew Galloway in The Laughter Lounge, Dublin in 2006. While shooting 3Crosses Sheamus' co-star Hytham Martin forgot to pull one of his punches with a metal chain wrapped around his fist leaving a two inch gash across the bridge of his nose.
- Whilst choreographing & rehearsing the big fight scene for prison break movie The Escapist starring Joseph Fiennes & Brian Cox, Fiennes caught Sheamus with a full-force elbow in the mouth. The handsome actor was more shocked about the incident than a blood soaked SOS who just laughed off the blow. Ironically in the movie Fiennes is supposed to knock out Sheamus' character Two Ton's front tooth!.
- He did not want to involve leprechauns or four-leaf clovers into his persona, and rather portrayed himself as a Warrior.
- From 1999-2007 he worked for a few different IT companies including Symantec and Hartford Life in Dublin.
- While working his IT jobs he made CAT-5 cables and used Ghost to image machines.
- Was a member of the boys' choir until he was 13.
- As part of Irish Whip Wrestling, Sheamus, McIntyre and Barrett were all part of the same organization and actually competed quite a bit around Europe. Sheamus and McIntyre had countless matches around the continent before they made the jump to the WWE.
- Won the Slammy for 2009 Breakout Superstar of the Year.
- Sheamus played both rugby and Gaelic football in his university years. He played rugby for the National College of Ireland, where he received a National Diploma, and Gaelic football for the Erin's Isle team, where he performed so well that he was once named "Sports Star of the Month.".
- When Sheamus came to the ring as a member of the security team to get DX in order, he got a pedigree from the same man who would push so hard to get Sheamus a huge push.
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