Paudie O'Mahony

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Paudie O'Mahony
Personal information
Irish name Páidí Ó Mathúna
Sport Gaelic football
Position Goalkeeper
Born 1952 (age 7273)
Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Occupation Engineer
Club
YearsClub
Spa
Club titles
Kerry titles 0
Inter-county
YearsCountyApps (scores)
1973-1982
Kerry 15 (0-00)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles 8
All-Irelands 5
NFL 1
All Stars 1

Paudie O'Mahony (born 1952) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. His league and championship career at senior level for the Kerry county team spanned nine seasons from 1973 to 1982. [1]

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Playing career

O'Mahony made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was selected for the Kerry minor team in 1970. He spent one championship season with the minor team; however, he was an All-Ireland MFC runner-up. O'Mahony subsequently joined the Kerry under-21 team, winning an All-Ireland medal in 1973. Later that year he joined the Kerry senior team, making his debut during the 1973–74 league. Over the course of the next nine seasons, O'Mahony won five All-Ireland SFC medals, beginning with a lone triumph on the field of play in 1975, followed by a record-equalling four championships in-a-row as a non-playing substitute from 1978 to 1981. He also won eight Munster SFC medals and one National Football League medal. He retired from inter-county football following Kerry's failure to secure a fifth successive All-Ireland SFC title in 1982.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

O'Mahony participated in the 2014 series of Operation Transformation . [2]

O'Mahoney, a civil engineer by profession, ran his own consultancy for 24 years. However, after the post-2008 Irish economic downturn, he was forced to close it down due to major cash-flow problems. [3]

Honours

Kerry
Munster

References

  1. "Kerry GAA profile". www.hoganstand.com. Archived from the original on 23 June 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  2. "Kerry GAA star is fourth OT leader". RTÉ. 29 November 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  3. Ring, Evelyn (29 November 2013). "Sport obsession cost Kerry star his marriage". Irish Examiner.