Joyce is worried rigours of Tyrone ties may have left mark on Galway

JOHN O’MAHONY would have given little thought to the plight of Galway football in the Eighties.

The county was then reeling following the traumatic defeat in the 1983 All-Ireland final, when they lost to a Dublin team which finished with 12 players.

As a former Mayo underage player who had become involved in team management at a young age, obviously he had his agenda. Nine years before he led Galway out of the desert in '98, he came close enough to managing a winning team in an All-Ireland final when Mayo lost to Cork in '89.