Post-playing Career
Shortly after his retirement from inter-county hurling Doheny became involved in the administrative affairs of the GAA. He served as chairman of the Kilkenny County Board from 1908 until 1912 and remained active in GAA affairs for the rst of his life.
Doheny married Annie Keoghan in 1913. She was a sister of Jack Keoghan, a winner of five All-Ireland medals with Kilkenny in 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912 and 1913. Their son, Jer Doheny Jr. (1919–2005), played hurling for a brief period with Erin's Own in Waterford. He won a county senior championship winners' medal with the club in 1942, before lining out with Waterford in the Munster final of 1943.
Jer Doheny died in 1929 aged fifty-five.
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