{{Short description|Gaelic footballer, football manager and sports administrator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=June 2020}} {{For|the English footballer|John Maughan (footballer)}} {{Infobox Gaelic games biography | name = John Maughan | image = | alt = | caption = | irish = | birth_date = 1962 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | feet = | inches = | nickname = | occupation = | sport = | clposition = | icposition = | managing_years = | managing_club = | managing_winningclub = | managing_clallireland = | managing_clprovince = | managing_clcounty = | managing_iccounty = [[Clare county football team|Clare]]<br>[[Mayo county football team|Mayo]]<br>[[Fermanagh county football team|Fermanagh]]<br>Mayo<br>[[Roscommon county football team|Roscommon]]<br>[[Offaly county football team|Offaly]] | managing_icyears = 1990–1994<br>1995–1999<br>2000–2001<br>2002–2005<br>2005–2008<br>2018–2022 | managing_winningcounties = [[Clare county football team|Clare]] | managing_icprovince = 1 | managing_icallireland = 1 | managing_league = }} '''John Maughan''' (born 1962)<ref name=still-spreading/> is an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Gaelic football]] [[Manager (Gaelic games)|manager]] and former player, who most recently managed the [[Offaly county football team|Offaly football team]].
He is also a former manager of the [[Mayo county football team|Mayo]], [[Clare county football team|Clare]], [[Roscommon county football team|Roscommon]] and [[Fermanagh county football team|Fermanagh]] senior football teams.<ref name=demands_end_to_'player_abuse'/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/maughan-quits-1333691.html|title=Maughan quits|work=Irish Independent|date=1 April 2008|access-date=9 November 2012}}</ref> Maughan is only the third man to lead five different [[county team]]s and the first to complete a "slam", with at least one of these county teams coming from each of [[Provinces of Ireland|Ireland's four provinces]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Colm|last=Keys|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/maughan-completes-slam-with-offaly-37262124.html|title=Maughan completes 'slam' with Offaly|work=Irish Independent|date=29 August 2018|access-date=29 August 2018}}</ref>
==Early life== Maughan is originally from [[Crossmolina]].<ref name=still-spreading/> He comes from a family of six children.<ref name=still-spreading>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/john-maughan-the-managerial-legend-still-spreading-the-football-gospel-as-offaly-eye-rare-croke-park-success-40556469.html|title=John Maughan – The managerial legend still spreading the football gospel as Offaly eye rare Croke Park success|work=[[Irish Independent]]|date=19 June 2021|quote=Maughan, who turns 60 next year...}}</ref> He was the only one sent to [[boarding school]], which he attended at [[Moate]]'s Carmelite College.<ref name=still-spreading/> After school he joined the [[Irish Army]].<ref name=still-spreading/> He is a graduate of [[NUI Galway|University College Galway]].<ref name=mayo_17092013>{{cite news|url=https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2013/september2013/nui-galway-students-and-alumni-head-for-croke-park-with-mayo-senior-football-finalists-.html|title=NUI Galway students and alumni head for Croke Park with Mayo senior football finalists|date=17 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217102433/https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2013/september2013/nui-galway-students-and-alumni-head-for-croke-park-with-mayo-senior-football-finalists-.html|archive-date=17 December 2016|quote=The event starts at 11am and the panel will include NUI Galway graduates, John Maughan, John O'Mahony and Tommy Carr...}}</ref> He attended the university in the early 1980s.<ref name=still-spreading/>
==Army Career==
Maughan was an offer in the [[Irish Army]] from 1979 to 1999. He reached the rank of Captain and was based in [[Renmore Barracks]] Dún Uí Mhaoilíosa in [[Galway]]. When he was appointed to the [[Mayo GAA|Mayo]] job, he commuted from [[Cyprus]] for the first couple of games as he was serving with the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/gentle-manager-who-sorts-things-out-quietly-and-without-hysterics-1.85927 | title=Gentle manager who sorts things out quietly and without hysterics | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] }}</ref>
==Playing career== Maughan won a [[Hogan Cup]] medal with Moate's Carmelite College in 1980.<ref name=still-spreading/> He also won two [[Sigerson Cup]]s with [[NUI Galway GAA|University College Galway]] in the early 1980s.<ref name=still-spreading/> This, alongside a spell with the Mayo under-21 team, led to Maughan being called up to the senior county team.<ref name=still-spreading/> Surgery on his [[knee cartilage]] in 1986 led to the end of his days as a player.<ref name=still-spreading/> He had four more operations but on the knee cartilage but was informed three years later that he could no longer play at [[inter-county]] level.<ref name=still-spreading/> He continued to play locally, switching base in 1994 and transferring to [[Castlebar Mitchels GAA|Castlebar Mitchels]] in the expectation of getting to play [[Glossary of Gaelic games terms#J|junior]] football but was a runner-up in that year's [[Mayo Senior Football Championship]] final.<ref name=still-spreading/> In a 1995 Mayo Senior Football Championship quarter-final Maughan sustained a broken jaw.<ref name=still-spreading/> After being brought to Dublin's Mater Hospital, a story in a newspaper led to bother as he had flown back from Cyprus where he was on peacekeeping duty with the Irish Army.<ref name=still-spreading/>
==Coaching career== Mayo's manager when Maughan's playing days ended was [[John O'Mahony (Mayo politician)|John O'Mahony]].<ref name=still-spreading/> O'Mahony retained Maughan's services as a team physical trainer.<ref name=still-spreading/>
A call came from [[Clare GAA]] one evening to ask if Maughan would become coach for the 1990 season.<ref name=still-spreading/> Discovering that no manager had yet been appointed Maughan asked if he could take the post.<ref name=still-spreading/> He did so, at the age of 28.<ref name=still-spreading/> Eleven players attended Maughan's first training session in [[Crusheen]].<ref name=still-spreading/>
He led Clare to the 1992 [[Munster Senior Football Championship]].
After finishing as Clare manager, Maughan went to [[Cyprus]] for [[United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus|United Nations peacekeeping duty]] in [[Nicosia]].<ref name=still-spreading/>
He was appointed manager of the Mayo county team while still based in Cyprus and commuted for several games at the start of his spell in charge.<ref name=still-spreading/>
He led his native county to the successive [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]] final defeats in [[1996 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|1996]], [[1997 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|1997]]. He returned for a second spell in charge and led his native county to a further All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final defeat in [[2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|2004]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=177743|title=Mayo are happier playing Donegal says Maughan|work=Hogan Stand|date=19 September 2012|access-date=9 November 2012}}</ref><ref name=can't_live_with_him,_can't_live_without_him/>
In between his spells with Mayo, he had a short stint as Fermanagh manager (winning an All-Ireland 'B' Football Championship) and, after taking charge of Mayo for the second time, he was manager of Roscommon.<ref name=still-spreading/> He resigned as Roscommon manager in the spring of 2008.<ref name=still-spreading/>
He commuted from his home in [[Castlebar]] to manage Offaly.<ref name=still-spreading/> Maughan announced his departure as Offaly manager in July 2022 after a four-year spell in charge during which he achieved [[Promotion and relegation|promotion]] for Offaly to Division 2 of the National Football League (though [[Promotion and relegation|relegation]] to Division 3 followed the next year) and advanced to the semi-final of the inaugural [[2022 Tailteann Cup]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2022/0713/1309979-maughan-steps-down-as-offaly-boss/|title=Maughan steps down as Offaly boss|publisher=RTÉ|date=13 July 2022}}</ref>
Maughan has also led [[NUI Galway GAA]].<ref name=demands_end_to_'player_abuse'>{{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/gaa/john-maughan-demands-end-to-player-abuse-16112316.html|title=John Maughan demands end to 'player abuse'|newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph|date=2 February 2012|access-date=9 November 2012}}</ref><ref name=can't_live_with_him,_can't_live_without_him>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/cant-live-with-him-cant-live-without-him-2800424.html|title=Can't live with him, can't live without him|work=Irish Independent|date=20 June 2011|access-date=9 November 2012|quote=Maughan coached NUIG in last year's Sigerson Cup, while he's also with Crossmolina. For the last while, he's been working with the first years in St Gerald's College in Castlebar.}}</ref>
==Personal life== Maughan is married to Audrey,<ref name=still-spreading/> and lives in [[Castlebar]].<ref name=still-spreading/> He is a grandfather.<ref name=still-spreading/> He had surgery on his back in 2019.<ref name=still-spreading/>
As of 2021, he was working as a Procurement Officer at [[Mayo County Council]],<ref name=still-spreading/> while, as of 2019, Maughan is a member of the board of [[Sport Ireland]].{{fact|date=June 2020}}
Though [[COVID-19 vaccine|fully-vaccinated]], Maughan isolated at his home in [[Enniscrone]] after contracting [[COVID-19]] in 2021 (his sense of [[Ageusia|taste]] and [[Anosmia|smell]] he said were [[Symptoms of COVID-19|"completely gone"]]).<ref>{{cite news|first=Vincent|last=Hogan|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/no-madness-no-cockiness-no-nonsense-songs-maughan-hopeful-its-finally-mayos-time-40839452.html|title='No madness, no cockiness, no nonsense songs' — Maughan hopeful it's finally Mayo's time|publisher=[[Irish Independent]]|date=11 September 2021|access-date=11 September 2021|quote=Despite being fully vaccinated, he tested positive for Covid last Monday week and has been isolating since at his house in Enniscrone. The symptoms arced about a week ago but have now begun to dissipate with the help of antibiotics, bike rides and time spent walking the beach. 'I honestly feel if I wasn't vaccinated, I'd be in hospital!' he says when I call. 'Just felt rotten last weekend and didn't stir off the couch. The symptoms of a bad 'flu with taste and smell still completely gone. Right now? I've no energy for Croke Park. But I'd hate to miss it'. His ten days of self-isolation are up so the tug of Dublin — he knows — will be insistent today (for the [[2021 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final]]).}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://archive.today/20130123151349/http://m.gaainfo.com/player.php?sport=f&co=21&player=76 GAA Info Profile]
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