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\nOis\u00edn Mullin playing for Mayo in the 2021 All-Ireland final<\/p>\n
Former Young Footballer of the Year Ois\u00edn Mullin confirmed he did speak to Mayo manager Andy Moran about returning to the county set-up ahead of the All-Ireland final.<\/p>\n
Mullin, who played for Mayo in their two previous All-Ireland final appearances in 2020 and 2021, has been in Australian since late 2022 after joining Geelong in the AFL.<\/p>\n
Geelong coach Chris Scott told Fox Sports at the weekend that Mullin had received a call from Moran last week, inquiring whether it’d be possible for him to return at an especially busy moment in the AFL season.<\/p>\n
Ahead of Geelong’s meeting with Collingwood today, Mullin told Australia’s Channel 7 that there had been a conversation.<\/p>\n
“I did have a chat with the coach back home and obviously Chris (Scott) here,” Mullin said.<\/p>\n
“In the off-season, Geelong gave me an extended period at home and I was fortunate that Mayo let me join them to train in the off-season as well, so there was that connection there.<\/p>\n
“The coach just touched base with me from home and had a chat with Scotty, but the circumstances around where we are in the ladder here and the time of season, it just didn’t work out.<\/p>\n
“I was just excited watching on from here and see the boys get the result and get it done.”<\/p>\n
Mullin also spoke about what the victory meant to the county.<\/p>\n
“It was massive. It’s been 75 years since they’ve won it. There’s been so many finals that Mayo have played in and not managed to get over the line.<\/p>\n
\nOis\u00edn Mullin playing for Mayo in the 2021 All-Ireland final<\/p>\n
“To finally get it done, the whole county has gone into lockdown. The celebrations are off the charts, it looks unbelievable.”<\/p>\n
Scott had disclosed that Moran had spoken to Mullin on the Fox Sports channel.<\/p>\n
“Ois\u00edn Mullin had taken a phone call from the Mayo coach just planting a seed about possibly, after our game against Melbourne on Friday night, that he might be able to pop over to Ireland to play in the final and then come back.”<\/p>\n
The 26-year old Mullin had been an emergent star in Mayo’s run to the All-Ireland finals in 2020 and 2021, earning an All-Star and the Young Footballer of the Year award in the former campaign.<\/p>\n
He is currently in his fourth season at Geelong, having played in last year’s Grand Final where they were defeated by back-to-back champions Brisbane Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Young Footballer of the Year Ois\u00edn Mullin confirmed he did speak to Mayo manager Andy Moran about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-575565","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\/575565","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=575565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}