Nicholas Murphy (Gaelic footballer)

Nicholas Murphy, born on 23 April 1978 in Carrigaline, County Cork, is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Cork county team between 1998 and 2012 and who plays for his local club, Carrigaline, where he has also played hurling. He first came to attention in minor football, when Carrigaline reached back-to-back county finals in 1995 and 1996 and lost both, and the club later won the Cork Intermediate A Football Championship in 2009 and the Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship in 2015. He was also part of the Carrigaline hurling side that won the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship in 2008. For Cork he made his senior football debut in a 1998 Munster semi-final against Kerry, won a National Football League medal in 1999 and four Munster Senior Football Championship medals, and played in the All-Ireland finals of 1999, lost to Meath, and 2007, lost to Kerry. He announced his retirement from inter-county football in November 2012.