[2] Despite his long tenure, he won just one All-Star during his career, although he was selected twice to represent Ireland in the International Rules Series.
[3] O'Hara has had some success with his club team Tourlestrane, winning eight Sligo Senior Football Championships – in 1994, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
He was also a member of the Benada Abbey team, which won the All-Ireland colleges B title in 1992, beating Edenderry in the final after a replay.
O'Hara's inter-county career highlight was his scoring of a brilliant individual goal against Galway in the 2007 Connacht Senior Football Championship Final.
[7][failed verification] In 2008, Sligo were beaten by Mayo and ended up in the Tommy Murphy Cup following on from a league campaign that brought relegation to Division 4 – O'Hara said he was ""embarrassed by the decline back into mediocrity.
[8] In January 2013, O'Hara announced he would be taking a break from inter-county football due to work commitments, though he suggested he would return some day.
While O'Hara expressed his concerns on live television, the broader sports coverage predominantly focused on other significant matches of the day.
There are players there that deserve better quality of training and management and I think going forward Kevin should make the right decision for the sake of Sligo football and not anybody else.
For me, he was asking me at 37 years of age to commit to a training regime of four nights a week collective sessions on 1 November, it was crazy as far as I was concerned.
[13]Former Armagh footballer Oisín McConville said O'Hara was out of line with his outburst and pointed out that most teams, apart from those to have played in that year's All-Ireland final, go back training in November.