If he hadn’t already been through hell, Padraig O’Hora might have figured he and Mayo had landed in the fiery pits last month. It doesn’t get much worse for a Mayo man than losing a Connacht football championship game to Galway. Or so you’d think.
“Nothing changes bar the route,” claimed O’Hora, looking to the bigger picture of their annual All-Ireland quest. “It’s just a different way to go to the same targets that we set at the start of the year. Nothing has changed in the group.”
The Ballina man’s nonplussed outlook probably comes from having experienced much tougher tests in his life. Like making it through to the very end of RTÉ’s reality TV show Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week in 2020. Of the 28 that began that show, 25 dropped out at various stages.
“It just looked interesting,” said O’Hora of the experience which included long spells of sleep deprivation and w …
- May 13, 2022
