Conor O’Mahony: ‘There was never any issue, only the time I was nearly arrested’

The Tipperary match-day cavalcade lost a vehicle this year. For years, Conor O’Mahony’s Skoda Superb pulled up the rear. A bad traveller, he was given special dispensation to drive, with Shane McGrath riding along for company.

Both men now having retired, the unusual sight of O’Mahony’s team bus tailgater has disappeared from the country’s highways and byways.

A practice started under Liam Sheedy, it was never a case of taking liberties — the pair would always hop onto the bus when they reached their Dublin hotel — but both management and player realising what was best for him.