An innovative and inspiring coach, he helped to make success a reality for Connacht football
team had just lost a league final to Mayo in 2001. In the improvised media zone under the Cusack Stand, it was put to the losing manager that no county had ever won the All-Ireland after a league final defeat.
That severe, recriminatory pose camouflaged a sense of humour, a lightness about the whole business which complemented rather than compromised how seriously he took football. A feature of the various media tributes paid to O’Mahony is the number that say how kind and accessible he was to young reporters. In 1989, I had come late to journalism and was attending my first press night in advance of Mayo’s first All-Ireland since the mythologised 1951 victory.
He was a pioneer in the science of preparation, the meticulousness of everything being properly organised and nothing out of place. Reflecting on his experiences in management, he often referred to “raising the bar”, getting players to focus on attaining higher standards.
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