Danno O’Mahony, World Wrestling Champion from Dreenlomane, Ballydehob, in Skibbereen, West Cork, July 1936
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danno_O’Mahony
Courtesy De La Salle Past Pupils Union, Skibbereen, ‘And Time Stood Still.
He is a Woulfe descendant and appears in the Woulfe Genealogy chart in the late Tommy and Letetia Camiers Museum at Gortnagrough, Ballydehob.
He died in a traffic accident outside Portlaoise on the 2nd November 1950. The day before was drove his American car to see his cousins the Burkes of Cookkeen, Durrus. He was twice relate to them his grandmother and wife was of Burke stock. He went to see the new stairs which was installed that day in the new house.


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