'Huge buzz around the place' - The 42-year-old Kerry winner chasing a Croke Park return.
Aidan O’Mahony cut his playing ties to the inter-county game six years ago this month.
When Rathmore won the Kerry intermediate football title back in 1999, O’Mahony was a teenage defensive anchor. They gripped determinedly onto their senior status for two decades until relegation hit them in October 2019.“I seem to be walking away from it every year, but the biggest thing was to get the club back up senior,” says O’Mahony.
“Look I’m no different to any other player, I want to play every game. The week after the Kerry county final, we played Spa in the local O’Donoghue Cup here. I knew it was probably a game where I’d get gametime but I’d an exam above in Belfast. So I’d to drive to Belfast the Friday night, had the exam the following day, get into the car and drive back down to Rathbeg to play.
“They’re the games we look back on and say, ‘What if?’ A lot of that group and panel are still involved now. It’s getting back up there and really being competitive and I think Rathmore have a group of players coming through now again.” “It was great. I’ve seen the amount of work those two lads, Paul and Shane, put in. For the club they’re brilliant. When they’re with Kerry and we were training over, they’re always around the place. They’re two positive guys, two huge players for us.”
Two out of the three have contested All-Ireland finals in Croke Park, Knocknagree winning the junior showpiece in 2018 and Gneeveguilla falling narrowly short twelve months ago.
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