Danno Mahony, World Wrestling Champion, July 1936, Triumphal Homecoming to Ballydehob, West Cork with Brother and Sister, Undefeated after 154 Wrestling Matches, 800,000 Spectators, Gates of over $2 million.

His wife was Burke born Cambridge Boston of Coomkeen, Durrus, Burkes. Danno was twice related to that family. The day before he was killed he went to look at their new house in Coomkeen, the stairs had just been put in. He was driving a large American car probably the one in which he was killed the following day outside Portlaoise.
He was also a descendants of the Protestant Woulfe Ballydehob family.