Dan O’Mahony or “Danno”, as he was popularly known, was one of those larger than life figures who attained iconic status in the annals of the Passage club. For a man who had such a great love of hurling it was a huge disappointment to “Danno” that in his formative years the Passage club was unable to field hurling teams for a number of years. This occurred in the 1940’s.

His love of the game meant that while the Passage club was out of existence he played his hurling with St. Finbarrs and a nearby club called Banba (Rafeen).

During this period “Danno” made continued efforts to relaunch his beloved Passage club and after some trojan behind the scenes work his dream was fulfilled in 1943 when the white and green jersey again took to the playing fields of the South-East division.

Shortly after this re-emergence “Danno” had his proudest moment when he captained Passage to win the South-East junior hurling title in 1945. Unfortunately, the team was missing three key players for the county final against Midleton and lost the game by just one point.

In 1945 he also made history, when along with his clubmates Christy Healy and Mick O’Connell, Danno was part of the Carrigdhoun hurling team that lost the senior county to a star studded Glen Rovers team. The Passage club were dealt a huge blow in 1951 when “Danno” emigrated to England, however on his return home in 1964 he immediately threw himself into the activities of the club once more.

He subsequently held the positions of chairman, vice-chairman and treasurer and of course was the Passage delegate to the Cork County Board for many years.

In 1969 he carved out his own unique place in club history when he became the first and only Passage representative to act on a Cork senior hurling selection committee. He helped select Cork teams that won Munster championships in 1969 and 1970 and the All-Ireland final in 1970. He was also a selector for the Cork under-21 hurling teams that won four successive All-Irelands from 1968 to 1971. Danno’s commitment to the Passage club is best epitomised by the fact that at the time of his untimely death in 1983 he was a selector on the clubs intermediate, junior and under-21 hurling teams.