Barnes Murphy

Barnes Murphy, born in Sligo, is a former Gaelic footballer who represented the Sligo county team during the 1970s and 1980s. He won a GAA All Stars Award in 1974 and a Connacht Senior Football Championship medal with Sligo in 1975, when he both captained and coached Sligo. He played football for Connacht many times and represented Connacht in the 1976 Railway Cup, when he was selected as the first and only Sligo man to captain his province. At club level he won five county championships, with Craomh Rua and St Mary's, five League medals with the same two clubs, three Connacht club championships and an All-Ireland 7s, and he also won Junior titles with St John's after the new club was formed when the old Sligo borough boundaries were divided further.