Michael Maher obituary: ‘He conducted GAA business with the same calm assurance he deployed at the edge of the square’

Michael Dundun remembers Tipperary full-back Michael Maher, a five-time All-Ireland winner.

It’s 1957 — an intense Munster senior hurling semi-final clash between Tipperary and Cork at Limerick. Cork’s Christy Ring is racing through on the Tipperary goal.

He is confronted by Tipp’s fullback, Michael Maher. They collide and Ring falls to the ground, breaking his wrist in the fall. A famous hurling photograph records the Cloyne maestro leaving the pitch, his hand in a sling, exchanging some words with Limerick legend Mick Mackey who was umpiring on the day.