Kieran Shannon: James Horan shouldn’t have to answer every whim from Mayo delegates

Mayo GAA have initiated a bizarre and unique review process that has encouraged clubs to submit questions for Horan ahead of the board’s end-of-year-review with him akin to Limerick hurling's infamous 20 questions

Mayo manager James Horan. Picture: INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Twenty-five years ago, only days either side of James Horan kicking five points from play in one of the most agonising All-Ireland final defeats Mayo has ever known, down in Limerick Dave Mahedy was getting his head around a document that he’d later transform into a gift to hang on his office wall in UL.

As part of the county’s senior hurling management that had lost another heart-breaking final of their own, he’d been privy to a copy of 20 pointed questions the county board executive had posed to manager Tom Ryan, some of which enquired was Mahedy “the right man to train the team”?