Bernie Murphy

Bernie Murphy, born in Cork in 1923 and died on 12 January 2002, was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a midfielder at senior level for the Cork county hurling team. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty with the Cork senior hurling team, made his debut in the 1942 championship and later joined the Cork senior football team. He became a regular in the starting fifteen and won one All-Ireland medal, one Munster medal and one National Hurling League medal with the hurlers, as well as one Munster medal with the footballers. At club level he was a three-time championship medallist with St Finbarr's. He made a combined total of eleven championship appearances and retired after the 1949 championships.