Local garda and GAA star featured on new RTE documentary

GAA commentary legend Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh and Kerry and Rathmore footballer and local community Garda, Aidan O’Mahony featured in the latest AIB documentary, The Toughest Summer, with a host of many other familiar Kerry faces.

Told through the lens of award-winning documentary maker, Ross Whitaker, the programme tracked their story alongside a host of other GAA members nationwide and celebrated the strength and resilience of the thousands of people in GAA communities.

The documentary delved in behind the scenes to life in Kerry through Aidan’s work as a community Garda, and Mícheálgiving one fan the best birthday surprise.“Anyone who is involved in the GAA – there’s always a connection,” Aidan said. “No matter whether you’re a supporter or someone that has played, they follow you through thick and thin and that’s the reason you put a jersey on your back, to represent these people.”

The 50-minute documentary marks the finale in AIB’s The Toughest Summer series.

The Toughest Summer showcases the powerful and extraordinary ways that the GAA has connected with their local communities when needed most, proving that even when there are no games being played, the GAA is still the beating heart of Ireland’s rural and urban communities.

The documentary is the culmination of a journey through a unique period of time in GAA history and chronicles the unprecedented halt to the games in March 2020. It follows the stories of GAA people and their communities across the country as they learned to cope with their new reality, and their subsequent path towards returning to on-field action once more. It tells the story of a summer that has been like no other; one that has truly highlighted the importance of GAA within local communities and one that has united friends and rivals, old and young, players and fans.

AIB’s The Toughest Summer is now available on AIB’s YouTube channelhttps://youtu.be/YzoHVv43DVY