Friday, 27th May 2016
Obituary of Joey Maher - "A moment of his time was a moment to savour"
By Paul Fitzpatrick
You’ve seen them around, these crumbling old theatres of concrete and stone. The countryside is dotted with them. We call them ball alleys and if walls could talk, they’d have some stories to tell about handball’s golden age, when big tournaments could attract 1,200 players and the superstars truly were household names. And in that glorious period, for a couple of decades on from the 1950s, no star burned as brightly as Joseph Patrick ‘Joey’ Maher.
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