Editing Pat O'Callaghan (section)

===Retirement===
O’Callaghan did not take part in the national athletic championships in Ireland in 1933. However, he still worked hard at training and experimented with a fourth turn to set a new European record at {{cvt|178|ft|9|in|order=flip}}. By this stage, O’Callaghan was rated as the top thrower in the world by the leading international sports journalists. In the early 1930s, a controversy erupted between the British AAA and the [[Cycling Ireland|National Athletic and Cycling Association of Ireland]] (NACAI). The British AAA claimed jurisdiction in [[Northern Ireland]] while the NACAI claimed jurisdiction over the entire island of [[Ireland]] regardless of political division. The controversy came to a head in the lead-up to the [[1936 Summer Olympics]] when the [[IAAF]] finally disqualified the NACAI.

O'Callaghan won the British [[AAA Championships]] title in the hammer throw event at the British [[1934 AAA Championships]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000640/19340714/336/0011 |title=Finals of White City events |work=Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette |date=14 July 1934 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003359/19340715/325/0019 |title=British athletes lose titles |work=Weekly Dispatch (London) |date=15 July 1934 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 January 2025 }}</ref>

O’Callaghan remained loyal to the NACAI, a decision which effectively brought an end to his international athletic career. No Irish team travelled to the 1936 Olympic Games; however, O’Callaghan travelled to [[Berlin]] as a private spectator. After Berlin, O’Callaghan's international career was over. He declined to join the new [[Irish Amateur Athletics Union]] (IAAU) or subsequent IOC-recognised [[Amateur Athletics Union of Eire]] (AAUE) and continued to compete under NACAI rules. At [[Fermoy]] in 1937 he threw {{cvt|195|ft|4|in|order=flip}} – nearly two metres ahead of the world record of {{cvt|57.77|m|ftin}} set by his old friend [[Patrick Ryan (hammer thrower)|Paddy 'Chicken' Ryan]] in 1913. This record, however, was not ratified by the AAUE or the IAAF. In retirement, O’Callaghan remained interested in athletics. He travelled to every Olympic Games up until 1988 and enjoyed fishing and shooting pheasants in Clonmel. He died on 1 December 1991.