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{{short description|Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer}}
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{{Infobox Gaelic games player
| code = Hurling
| sport = Hurling
| image = 
| name = Shane Maher
| irish = Seán Ó Meagher
| fullname = Shane Maher
| feet = 6
| inches = 0
| occupation = Stryker Limerick Employee
| nickname = 
| county = Tipperary
| province = Munster
| club = [[Burgess GAA|Burgess]]
| clposition = Half-back
| clubs = 
| clyears = 
| clapps(points) = 
| clcounty = 
| clprovince = 
| clallireland = 
| counties = Tipperary (H)<br/>Tipperary (F)
| icposition = Half-back
| icyears = 2004-2012<br/>2003
| icapps(points) = 6 (0-1)<br/>4
| icprovince = 2
| icallireland = 1
| nhl = 1
| clupdate = 
| icupdate = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|4|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Gortmore, Carrigatoher, County Tipperary|Gortmore]], [[County Tipperary]]
}} 
'''Shane Maher''' (born 22 April 1981 in [[Gortmore, County Tipperary|Gortmore]], [[County Tipperary]]) is an [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] sportsperson.  He plays [[hurling]] with his local club [[Burgess GAA|Burgess]] and with the [[Tipperary GAA|Tipperary]] senior inter-county team. He is the older brother of [[Donagh Maher]], who also plays for Tipperary.

==Playing career==
===Club===
Maher plays his club [[hurling]] with his local [[Burgess GAA|Burgess]] club and has enjoyed some success.  He was a key member of the team when the club won the intermediate [[Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship|county title]] in 2005.

===Inter-county===
Shane is a talented hurler and footballer and has lined out with Tipperary at Minor Football (1998 and 1999), Under 21 Football (2000, 2001 and 2002 as captain), Under 21 Hurling (2002), Junior Football (2001), Intermediate Hurling (2002, 2003 and 2004), and Senior Football (2003). Shane made his Senior Hurling competitive debut at centre-forward for Tipperary against Offaly in the 2004 National Hurling League.

Maher first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the [[Tipperary GAA|Tipperary]] intermediate hurling team in the early 2000s.  He enjoyed some success in this grade, culminating in the winning of a [[Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship|Munster]] title in 2002.  Two years later in 2004, Maher was a member of the Tipp senior panel and made his debut against [[Offaly GAA|Offaly]] in the [[National Hurling League]]. He did not feature on the Tipperary panel in 2005 and 2006, but was recalled to the squad in 2007, making his championship debut against [[Dublin GAA|Dublin]] at left half-back in the 2007 qualifier series of games. That particular season was an unhappy one for Tipp.  A new manager in 2008 brought a change of fortune as Maher collected a National League title in 2008.

On 5 September 2010, Maher was a non-playing substitute as Tipperary won their 26th [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship|All Ireland title]], beating reigning champions [[Kilkenny GAA|Killkenny]] by 4-17 to 1-18 in the [[2010 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final|final]], preventing Kilkenny from achieving an historic 5-in-a-row; it was Maher's first All-Ireland winners medal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/rampant-tipp-deny-cats-immortality-2326052.html|title=Rampant Tipp deny Cats immortality|date=2010-09-06|work=Irish Independent|accessdate=2010-09-08}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080921172419/http://tipperary.gaa.ie/seniorhurlingplayerprofiles.html Tipperary Player Profiles]

==Teams==

{{Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Team 2002}}
{{Tipperary Hurling Team 2008}}
{{Tipperary Hurling Team 2009}}
{{Tipperary Hurling Team 2010}}

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[[Category:1981 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Burgess hurlers]]
[[Category:Tipperary inter-county hurlers]]
[[Category:Tipperary inter-county Gaelic footballers]]
[[Category:Burgess Gaelic footballers]]
[[Category:21st-century Irish sportsmen]]