{"id":633637,"date":"2026-09-23T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633637\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:24:10","slug":"mayo-gaa-chairman-who-oversaw-historic-all-ireland-win-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633637\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo GAA chairman who oversaw historic All-Ireland win dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuohy, head of the county&#8217;s executive, passed away on Tuesday after a battle with illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tuohy\u2019s impact on the GAA scene in Mayo cannot be understated, with years of service given across different roles prior to his ascension to chairman in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Breaffy club man Tuohy oversaw <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41886211.html\">the Mayo senior footballers breaking a 75-year drought to win Sam Maguire<\/a> this year when Andy Moran&#8217;s side beat Kerry in Croke Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mayo County Council have postponed the planned civic reception, due to take place on Friday, for Mayo\u2019s All-Ireland winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cOn behalf of the Cathaoirleach, the Elected Members, Chief Executive, Kevin Kelly, and the staff of Mayo County Council, I wish to extend our sincere sympathies to the Tuohy family and to his colleagues and friends throughout Mayo GAA at this difficult time,\u201d a statement from the Council read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuohy, head of the county&#8217;s executive, passed away on Tuesday after a battle with illness.\u00a0 Tuohy\u2019s impact on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4185,43],"class_list":["post-633637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633637","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=633637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}