Tipp star Padraic Maher hoping to bring McCarthy Cup to Henry Street as he begins life as a garda

Tipperary hurling captain, Padraic Maher sported a different shade of Premier County blue today, thanks to his mother, writes Jimmy Woulfe of the Irish Examiner.

Garda Maher, along with nine other probationer members of An Garda Siochana, walked out of Henry Steet station in Limerick for his first day on the beat.