Waterford have added a second major signing in as many days, with defender John Mahon moving to the RSC from Sligo Rovers.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old was a free agent after falling out of favour with the Bit O’ Red in the latter part of the 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n
The addition is hot on the heels of the Blues capturing Evan McLaughlin for an undisclosed fee from Cork City on St Stephen Day. <\/p>\n
Mahon had a decade of service with Sligo and also moved to Scottish Premiership side St Johnstone in January 2022 in a \u20ac100,000 transfer.<\/p>\n
He returned back to The Showgrounds ahead of the 2023 League of Ireland season, where he made 28 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n
A ruptured Achilles tendon sidelined for most of 2024, and while he was captain of the Bit O\u2019 Red last season, he lost his place midway through the year.<\/p>\n
Mahon said: “I\u2019m delighted to be here, it felt like the right time for a fresh start and after talking to Jon and seeing the training ground I knew this was the right place for me.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m looking forward to meeting the lads and getting straight to work now.”<\/p>\n
Jon Daly feels Mahon can be a leader in Waterford\u2019s side.<\/p>\n
The Blues boss explained: “John is a top professional and a very reliable defender. He understands what it takes to compete in this league week in, week out, and he\u2019ll add real strength and organisation to our back line.<\/p>\n
“I was keen to bring in someone with John\u2019s experience and character. He\u2019s a competitor, he sets standards, and he\u2019ll be a big presence in the dressing room as well as on the pitch.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford have added a second major signing in as many days, with defender John Mahon moving to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-214821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}