Aidan O'Mahony

Aidan O'Mahony
Personal information
Irish nameAodán Ó Mathúna
SportGaelic Football
PositionCentre Back
Born8 June 1980
Tralee, Ireland
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
OccupationGarda
Club(s)
YearsClub
1998-Rathmore
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCountyApps (scores)
2004-Kerry61 (0-11)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles7
All-Irelands5
NFL3
All Stars2

Aidan O'Mahony (born 8 June 1980 in Tralee) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for the Kerry senior football team. He has 5 All-Irelands, 3 NFLs, 7 Munster Championships, 1 County Senior Championship, 1 Senior Club County Championship, 1 County U21 Championship, 1 County Intermediate Championship and 3 All Stars.[1]

A Garda Síochána member, he played for Kerry's U21 team in 2000 and 2001. He debuted for the Kerry senior team in the 2003 League campaign and in the Championship versus Clare in 2004. He started the 2004 All-Ireland Final against Mayo, which Kerry won. He repeated the performance in the 2006 All-Ireland Final against the same team. Kerry dominated, and Mayo were easily defeated by a score of 4-15 to 3-05, and O'Mahony picked up the RTÉ Man of the Match Award for scoring 2 points and marking Ciarán McDonald. He won further All-Ireland medals in 2006 and 2007, gaining an All Star in each of those years.[2] He has 2 NFL medals from 2004 and 2005 and also won the Munster club championship with his club Rathmore. O'Mahony again played an important part as Kerry reached the 2008 All-Ireland Final, defeating Cork in the semi-final. Many Cork fans were angered by O'Mahony's role in the sending off of Cork forward Donnacha O'Connor.[3] His collapse to the ground after O'Connor slapped him was described as a deliberate dive.[3] In 2010, O'Mahony took a break from inter-county football after Kerry's NFL campaign for personal reasons; he, however, returned to the panel for the Championship.

He once played on for more than 40 minutes in a club final with a broken leg, scoring two points.[4]

O'Mahony in action against Derry's Mark Lynch in the 2008 National League

References

  1. ↑ "Kerry GAA Profile". Kerry GAA. 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
  2. ↑ Keys, Colm (20 October 2007). "O Se brothers create stunning piece of GAA history with their All Star success". Irish Independent.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/wholestory.aspx-qqqg=sections-qqqm=gaa-qqqa=general-qqqtt=af2-qqqc=5.4.9.0-qqqn=1-qqqx=1.asp
  4. ↑ "O'Mahony: Why I played with a broken leg". RTÉ Sport. 26 October 2011.

External links

O'Mahony (left) in action against Derry's Eoin Bradley in the 2009 National League final