O’Mahony refuses to be drawn into game of political football

JOHN O’MAHONY denied yesterday that taking charge of the Mayo footballers would advance his chances of winning a Dáil seat in next year’s general election.

He stressed that any job he took on would be on the “full merits of being successful” in it. “Anyone who knows my record would know that I would do it precisely to advance the cause of the job that I go into, rather than anything else,’’ he commented.

Confirming that he was due to meet with the Mayo chairman before the end of the week, he said he would make a decision “very quickly” as to whether he is going to be involved with Mayo or not. “There are other candidates too and I have to have respect for that,’’ he added. “I’ll take control of the situation when I have to and people will know exactly what the story is.”