Austin O'Malley

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Austin O'Malley
Personal information
Irish name Austin Ó Máille
Sport Gaelic football
Position Full Forward
Born Louisburgh, County Mayo
Occupation Teacher
Clubs
YearsClub

2006
2008–2010
2011–2013
2014–
 Louisburgh
UCD
St Vincents
St Patrick's
Louisburgh
Club titles
titles 3
College
YearsCollege
 IT Sligo
College titles
Sigerson titles 1
Inter-county
YearsCountyApps (scores)
2004–2009
2011–2013
 Mayo
Wicklow 		50 (7–114)
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles 3
All-Irelands 0
NFL 1

Austin O'Malley is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player. He represented both the Mayo and Wicklow county teams.

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Career

O'Malley won three Connacht Senior Football Championship medals with Mayo. [1] He was involved when Mayo lost the 2004 and 2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals. [1]

O'Malley won the 2006 Dublin Senior Football Championship while playing for UCD. [2] In 2011, he transferred to St Patrick's (Wicklow) after three years of playing with St Vincent's. [2]

While playing for St Patrick's, O'Malley also lined out with the Wicklow county team. The transfer process story was leaked to Dublin newspaper, the Metro . [3] While playing for Wicklow he won Division 4 of the National Football League. [1]

As of 2011, he was a teacher at St Benildus College, [2] where he uses the strength and ambition that he gained from years on the training pitch to discipline and motivate the pupils. In later years he formed a performance coaching consultancy, Hexagon Performance. [4] In 2014, he transferred back to his native club Louisburgh in Co Mayo.

O'Malley began managing Cuala in 2022. [4] After two Dublin SFC quarter-final exits in 2022 and 2023, he led that club to a first Dublin SFC title in 2024. [4] [5] He later managed Cuala to the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship title and the 2024–25 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship title. [4] [6] Then he resigned. [4] [7]

Honours

Player

Manager

References

  1. 1 2 3 Boyle, Donnchadh (27 January 2017). "Long trek back to Mayo worth every minute for O'Malley". Irish Independent.
  2. 1 2 3 McKeon, Conor (18 February 2011). "O'Malley moves out to the Garden". Irish Independent.
  3. ↑ "Sport".
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Moran, Seán (7 February 2025). "All-Ireland winning Cuala manager Austin O'Malley steps down". The Irish Times.
  5. ↑ Gallagher, Michael (20 October 2024). "Mayo man guides Cuala to Dublin football glory". The Mayo News.
  6. ↑ "Surreal day for Cuala as footballers arrive at summit". RTÉ. 19 January 2025. Austin O'Malley led Cuala to yesterday's All-Ireland title... There was one major outside influence on the team, with manager Austin O'Malley, a Mayo native, who had previously been involved at inter-county level as a player with the Green and Red, as well as Wicklow.
  7. ↑ Gallagher, Michael (7 February 2025). "Mayo man steps down after guiding club to All-Ireland title". The Mayo News.
Achievements
Preceded by All-Ireland Club SFC
winning manager
2025 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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