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Best 5 GAA County Managers In Your Time

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Replying To jacktheboy:  "John O Mahoney has to be up there in top five, he did it with three counties, not just one good team like the others."
Yep!

And when we gave him a few decent players he won two All Irelands an drew another one.

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 842 - 11/03/2026 10:43:29    2660884

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Replying To Past hurler:  "Brian Cody is out on his own with 11 All Irelands as the greatest GAA manager ever but special mention to Mick O'Dwyer, Jim Gavin and Jack O'Connor."
That's basically just a list of who has the most All-Irelands. Cody's reign especially shows the impact of having an incredible group of players. He's no doubt a brilliant manager, and it's hard to know if anyone would have won as much as he did with the same group. However, the last 7 years of his reign with no All-Ireland after many of the best players had finished up, indicates how much of a factor in the success the quality of player he had was.
O'Dwyer is another legend who had a brilliant group of players come along at the same time.
Ger Loughnane winning two All-Irelands with a county that hadn't won in over 80 years and hadn't even come close in over 60 years is every bit as much of an achievement as those above.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2744 - 11/03/2026 10:50:53    2660888

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