death_date icposition icupdate birth_date code nhl club name occupation fullname clyears birth_place county sport nickname icprovince counties icyears icallireland province article_title clcounty irish
25 march 2015 left wing-forward 19:06 , 12 august 2014 25 april 1922 hurling 0 castle rovers thomastown tommy maher roman catholic priest tommy maher 1944-1945 1946-1947 gowran , county kilkenny , ireland kilkenny hurling fr . tommy 0 kilkenny 1945-1946 0 leinster tommy maher
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tommy maher

thomas `` tommy '' maher -lrb- 25 april 1922 -- 25 march 2015 -rrb- was an irish hurler who played as left wing-forward for the kilkenny senior team .
born in gowran , county kilkenny , maher first excelled at hurling during his schooling at st. kieran 's college .
he arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-three when he first linked up with the kilkenny senior team .
he made his senior debut during the 1945 championship .
maher enjoyed a brief inter-county career and won one leinster medal as a non-playing substitute .
he was an all-ireland runner-up on one occasion .
at club level maher enjoyed a brief career with castle rovers and thomastown .
in retirement from playing maher became involved in team management and coaching .
as trainer and coach of the kilkenny senior team for over twenty years he guided the team to seven all-ireland titles , fourteen leinster titles and three national hurling league titles .
maher also enjoyed much success at club level with mullinavat and at colleges ' level with st. kieran 's college .
