Former Blue Demons Juvenile, Superleague and Division 1 player Daniel O’Mahony makes his return to Cork and to the Blue Demons coaching staff with his appointment as Head Coach of the UCC Demons under 20 squad for the next 2 season. Daniel a former Under Age Irish international and prominent member of the all-conquering Juvenile team that included players like Niall Murphy, Carlton Cuffe, David Murphy, Anthony O Callaghan and Cathal O Flaherty.\u00a0 Daniel a lifelong member of Blue Demons and son of Blue Demons members Pat and Norma O Mahony had a hugely successful juvenile career finishing on a high winning the Under 20 National Cup with Demons.\u00a0 He progressed onto the Superleague Team winning a league and Cup in 2009 as a member of Doug Leichner\u2019s unbeaten squad, and later continued his playing success at National Division 1 level. Daniel O Mahony was also cutting his teeth coaching under age and was a shining light in the next generation of young coaches. In 2013 he moved to Dublin to pursue personal and career opportunities and maintained a very visible role in Irish Basketball.
\nHe continued his coaching development with the KUBS Basketball Club and had a very successful spell as Head Coach to their youthful Men\u2019s League Division 1 team.
\nDaniel and his wife Jodie (Black) made career decisions to relocate to Cork this Summer, and naturally to get involved in Demons again.<\/p>\n
Club Chairman Michael O’Leary stated<\/strong>: Daniel O’Mahony stated:<\/strong> Former Blue Demons Juvenile, Superleague and Division 1 player Daniel O’Mahony makes his return to Cork and to the Blue Demons coaching staff with his appointment as Head Coach of the UCC Demons under 20 squad for the next 2 season. Daniel a former Under Age Irish international and prominent member of the all-conquering Juvenile…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,23,39,49],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club","tag-appointment","tag-coach","tag-men","tag-u20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluedemonsbc.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe timing of Daniel return to Blue Demons could not be better in what has being a Summer of difficult decisions. The decision to focus and concentrate our energy on the Underage programmes is bolstered by Daniel\u2019s return. Daniel brings a fresh approach, a stranger to the young players, someone new but a familiar face to the club someocoane with a proven Coaching ability with a genuine passion for Blue Demons. We look forward to this next chapter. Daniel will have a solid team to work with\u00a0 and we are hoping that his appointment will attract other players to commit to UCC Demons especially potential UCC Students coming into Cork next term that see this appointment \u00a0as massive statement of intent from UCC Demons\u00a0 for the immediate future.<\/p>\n
\nAfter 6 years away from Blue Demons I turned from member \/ coach to super fan a Saturday night in Dublin wouldn\u2019t pass without me supporting Demons against the likes of Killester , UCD , Thunder and Eanna.
\nI owe a massive thanks to Kubs Basketball Club for taking me in with open arms and over the 3 seasons I spent with them giving me opportunity to coach 18s, 20s, D1 and National League.
\nThis really gave me a chance to work with some fantastic players and better myself as a coach while always learning.
\nNow that myself and my wife have relocated back HOME I was so happy to be giving the opportunity to get back involved with Blue Demons and especially the Under 20 side who are currently the pinnacle of the Club.
\nSome fantastic underage players currently among Demons Juvenile system I can\u2019t wait to get started working with his group.
\nAfter all the success, memories and friends Demons has giving me, now I feel is the perfect time to give back and hopefully bring some success. I am really excited about getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"