‘We can’t afford to let 15 or 16 teams fall off wagon’

Two-time All-Ireland winning manager John O’Mahony wants to see a redistribution of the GAA’s finances to assist weaker counties.

The association has commenced an equalisation of funding but the former Galway, Leitrim and Mayo boss, who this evening accepts a Gaelic Writers Association Hall of Fame award, says the process needs to be accelerated.

Having been involved in an advisory capacity with Carlow and Leitrim whom he guided to a Connacht title 23 years ago, he fears a lot of football counties will “fall off the wagon” if they aren’t assisted.