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Tommy Maher

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Tommy Maher was an Irish Catholic priest and Irish hurler who lived from 1922 until his death on 25 March 2015 and played as a left wing-forward for the Kilkenny senior team. Born in Gowran, County Kilkenny, he first played competitive hurling at St Kieran's College, where he won the Leinster Colleges Senior Hurling Championship in 1939, 1940 and 1941, and he first linked up with the Kilkenny senior team at twenty-three and made his senior debut during the 1945 championship. With Kilkenny he won the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship in 1946, and he won the All-Ireland Colleges Senior Hurling Inter-Provincial Championship with Leinster in 1940.

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Fr Tommy Maher (25 April 1922 – 25 March 2015) was an Irish Catholic priest and Irish Hurler who played as left wing-forward for the Kilkenny senior team.
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