Austin O'Malley is an Irish

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and former player. He represented both the Mayo and

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county teams.

Career

O'Malley won three

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medals with Mayo. He was involved when Mayo lost the

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and 2006 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals. O'Malley won the

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while playing for UCD. In 2011, he transferred to St Patrick's (Wicklow) after three years of playing with St Vincent's. While playing for St Patrick's, O'Malley also lined out with the Wicklow county team. The transfer process story was leaked to Dublin newspaper, the ''

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''. While playing for Wicklow he won Division 4 of the

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. As of 2011, he was a teacher at St Benildus College, where he uses the strength and ambition that he gained from years on the training pitch to discipline and motivate the pupils. In later years he formed a performance coaching consultancy, Hexagon Performance. In 2014, he transferred back to his native club Louisburgh in Co Mayo. O'Malley began managing Cuala in 2022. After two Dublin SFC quarter-final exits in

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and

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, he led that club to a first Dublin SFC title in

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. He later managed Cuala to the

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title and the

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title. Then he resigned.

Honours

Player

(3): 2004, 2006, 2009 * Mayo Intermediate Football Championship (1): 2003 * Mayo Junior Football Championship (1): 2016 * Connacht Junior Club Football Championship (1): 2016 *

Dublin Senior Football Championship The Dublin Senior Football Championship (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the '' Go-Ahead'' Dublin Senior Football Championship) is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition between the top Dublin GAA clubs. The winners of t ...

(1): 2006 *

Wicklow Senior Football Championship The Wicklow Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition organised by Wicklow GAA between the top Gaelic football clubs in County Wicklow, Ireland. The winner of the Wicklow Championship qualifies to repres ...

(1): 2012 * National Football League Division 4 (1): 2012 *

Sigerson Cup The Sigerson Cup is the trophy for the premier Gaelic football championship among Higher Education institutions (Universities, Colleges and Institutes of Technology) in Ireland. It traditionally begins in mid January and ends in late February. T ...

(1): 2004

Manager

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship winning managers Gaelic football managers Irish schoolteachers Louisburgh Gaelic footballers Mayo inter-county Gaelic footballers St Patrick's (Wicklow) Gaelic footballers St Vincents (Dublin) Gaelic footballers UCD Gaelic footballers Wicklow inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Mayo-Gaelic-football-bio-stub