Former Mayo, Leitrim and Galway manager, John O'Mahony, has died.
A native of Kilmovee, Co Mayo, O’ Mahony had two stints as manager of his home county while he famously led neighbours Galway to their most recent All-Ireland senior football titles around the turn of the century in 1998 and 2001.Just as sensationally, he took Leitrim to their second ever – and still most recent – Connacht senior football title in 1994, before losing an All-Ireland semi-final to Dublin. Leitrim had not won a provincial title since 1927 at the time.
O’Mahony’s first tenure as Mayo boss went from 1987 to 1991, where they won back-to-back provincial titles in ’88 and ’89. He retook the job two decades later from 2006 to 2010 with a further Connacht win coming in 2009. In all, O’Mahony won no less than eight Connacht SFC titles as manager, three with Mayo, one with Leitrim and four with Galway – the most of any manager in the competition’s history.
John O’Mahony was elected as a Fine Gael TD in Mayo at the 2007 General Election and served in that position until 2016. In May of 2016, then Taoiseach Enda Kenny nominated him to the 25th Seanad.
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