Biography
Mikey Maher was born in Tubberadora, County Tipperary in 1870. He was educated at the local national school and later worked on the family farm.
Maher was the second eldest in a family of four boys, all of whom had a great interest in the game of hurling. Maher’s older brother, Jack, won two All-Ireland medals in the 1890s. Two of Maher’s nephews, Sonny Maher and Michael Maher, won All-Ireland medals with Tipperary in the 1950s and 1960s.
In retirement from hurling Maher returned to working on the family farm. In 1918 he moved to a farm in Galbally, County Limerick where he spent the rest of his life.
Mikey Maher died in 1947.
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