February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Of course, it’s early in his career but it’s hard to see any battle scars. Maher is an amateur boxer and training for his first Golden Gloves competition. The Irish Echo recently caught up with him before Friday Night Fights, a weekly boxing event here in the city.
Although Maher is a trained athlete who came up through the minor hurling and football leagues in his native Waterford, it took a chance meeting at a gym to get him started on his boxing career.
“I’d always had an interest in boxing and my father was a fan back home and watched it on the telly, but when I came over to the states on a sports scholarship, I started taking boxing classes at a gym just to keep fit,” he said.
“When Mickey Toohill, my trainer, saw me, he said that I had a natural talent so I started training with him twice a week and twice a week on my own and it just progressed from there.”
Duking it out in the cut-throat real estate world where Maher was a broker was, perhaps, a perfect entre