O'Hora 'voicing opinions' for those not heard

“Now that I’m in that position of course football is important but also I have huge opportunity to voice opinions for people who aren’t heard, to make changes, to advocate on a platform for people who don’t have that opportunity."

A VOICE FOR OTHERS: Mayo footballer Pádraig O'Hora uses the platform being an intercounty footballer gives him to be the voice for those who do not have the same platform. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Convention and Pádraig O’Hora are no bed fellows.

In some ways, he is Mayo’s Michael Darragh Macauley. A sportsperson with a deep social conscious oblivious to the noise and attention around being an inter-county footballer.