John Maughan

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John Maughan
Personal information
Born1962
Inter-county management
Years County
(1990–94)
(1995–99)
(2000–01)
(2002–05)
(2005–08)
(2018–present) 		Clare
Mayo
Fermanagh
Mayo
Roscommon
Offaly
Inter-county titles
County League Province All-Ireland
Clare 1

John Maughan (born 1962)[1] is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player who currently is manager of the Offaly football team.

He is a former manager of the Mayo, Clare, Roscommon and Fermanagh senior football teams.[2][3] He is only the third man to lead five different counties and the first to complete a "slam", with at least one of these counties coming from each of Ireland's four provinces.[4]

Early life[]

Maughan is originally from Crossmolina.[1] He comes from a family of six children.[1] He was the only one sent to boarding school, which he attended at Moate's Carmelite College.[1] After school he joined the Irish Army.[1] He is a graduate of University College Galway.[5] He attended the university in the early 1980s.[1]

Playing career[]

Maughan won a Hogan Cup medal with Moate's Carmelite College in 1980.[1] He also won two Sigerson Cups with University College Galway in the early 1980s.[1] This, alongside a spell with the Mayo under-21 team, led to Maughan being called up to the senior county team.[1] Surgery on his knee cartilage in 1986 led to the end of his days as a player.[1] He had four more operations but on the knee cartilage but was informed three years later that he could no longer play at inter-county level.[1] He continued to play locally, switching base in 1994 and transferring to Castlebar Mitchels in the expectation of getting to play junior football but was a runner-up in that year's Mayo Senior Football Championship final.[1] In a 1995 Mayo Senior Football Championship quarter-final Maughan sustained a broken jaw.[1] After being brought to Dublin's Mater Hospital, a story in a newspaper led to bother as he had flown back from Cyprus where he was on peacekeeping duty with the Irish Army.[1]

Coaching career[]

Mayo's manager when Maughan's playing days ended was John O'Mahony.[1] O'Mahony retained Maughan's services as a team physical trainer.[1]

A call came from Clare GAA one evening to ask if Maughan would become coach for the 1990 season.[1] Discovering that no manager had yet been apppointed Maughan asked if he could take the post.[1] He did so, at the age of 28.[1] Eleven players attended Maughan's first training session in Crusheen.[1]

He led Clare to the 1992 Munster Senior Football Championship.

After finishing as Clare manager, Maughan went to Cyprus for United Nations peacekeeping duty in Nicosia.[1]

He was appointed manager of the Mayo county team while still based in Cyprus and commuted for several games at the start of his spell in charge.[1]

He led his native county to the successive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final defeats in 1996, 1997. He returned for a second spell in charge and led his native county to a further All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final defeat in 2004.[6][7]

In between his spells with Mayo, he had a short stint as Fermanagh manager (winning an All-Ireland 'B' Football Championship) and, after taking charge of Mayo for the second time, he was manager of Roscommon.[1] He resigned as Roscommon manager in the spring of 2008.[1]

He commutes from his home in Castlebar to manage Offaly.[1]

Maughan has also led NUI Galway GAA.[2][7]

Personal life[]

Maughan is married to Audrey,[1] and lives in Castlebar.[1] He is a grandfather.[1] He had surgery on his back in 2019.[1]

As of 2021, he was working as a Procurement Officer at Mayo County Council,[1] while, as of 2019, Maughan is a member of the board of Sport Ireland.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad "John Maughan – The managerial legend still spreading the football gospel as Offaly eye rare Croke Park success". Irish Independent. 19 June 2021. Maughan, who turns 60 next year...
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "John Maughan demands end to 'player abuse'". The Belfast Telegraph. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  3. ^ "Maughan quits". Irish Independent. 1 April 2008. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  4. ^ Keys, Colm (29 August 2018). "Maughan completes 'slam' with Offaly". Irish Independent. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  5. ^ "NUI Galway students and alumni head for Croke Park with Mayo senior football finalists". 17 September 2013. Archived from the original on 17 December 2016. The event starts at 11am and the panel will include NUI Galway graduates, John Maughan, John O'Mahony and Tommy Carr...
  6. ^ "Mayo are happier playing Donegal says Maughan". Hogan Stand. 19 September 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Can't live with him, can't live without him". Irish Independent. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2012. Maughan coached NUIG in last year's Sigerson Cup, while he's also with Crossmolina. For the last while, he's been working with the first years in St Gerald's College in Castlebar.

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