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John Maughan is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player who currently is manager of the Offaly football team.
He is a former manager of the Mayo, Clare, Roscommon and Fermanagh senior football teams. He is only the third man to lead five different counties and the first to complete a "slam", with at least one of these counties coming from each of Ireland's four provinces.There was not much success in most of these counties , but its still a credit to him to keep getting his name out there and taking on different challenges.
He led Clare to the 1992 Munster Senior Football Championship. Appointed manager of Mayo on the back of this success, Maughan led his native county to the successive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final defeats in 1996, 1997. He returned for a second spell in charge and led his native county to a further All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final defeat in2004.
He has also led NUI Galway GAA.
Maughan is from Crossmolina in County Mayo, Ireland. He is a graduate of University College Galway.
As of 2019, Maughan is a member of the board of Sport Ireland.