A story told on the 2 Johnnies Podcast connected the words ‘catfish’ and ‘GAA’. It’s an arresting combination
Johnny “Smacks” McMahon and Johnny “B” O’Brien, who has spoken about being the victim of a catfishing attempt. Photograph: Andres Poveda/RTÉI met my husband at a work event. We got talking in the pub afterwards and established who we knew in common . This was in 2012 and so I missed out on a personal tour of Irish Tinder . Never mind, the view from the sidelines was grim enough.
This is real life and not a horror story, so it took a while before O’Brien discerned that Nicki and Cora were one and the same and that neither persona was real. He’d been catfished. When he told the story at a live gig in the 3Arena, it emerged that other Irish men, many in the GAA community, had also fallen for Cora’s wiles and similar accounts affiliated with her.when it was revealed that the woman responsible for the GAA catfish scandal had reappeared under the alias Aoife Kennedy.
One GAA player, whom the 2 Johnnies refer to only as “Paul”, believed he was in a four-year relationship with a profile called Emma McCarron, despite never having met the woman in question. “Emma” even had a photo of herself and Paul Photoshopped on her profile. Stranger again is that Paul used the same image on his own grid for a time, despite knowing it wasn’t real.
The GAA was established in 1884 as a way for young people in rural areas to come together through sports and other community activities. For more than a century, it has been a part of how young people make friends and find love. But Johnny B, a former hurley-maker from Tipperary, says that he’s met most of his recent girlfriends on Instagram, so connecting with Cora didn’t feel strange.
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