Barnes Murphy
Personal information | |||
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Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Centre half back / Midfield | ||
Born | Sligo, County Sligo | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
1967-85 |
St Mary's All-Ireland 7 a-side (1980) | ||
Club titles | |||
Sligo titles | 8 | ||
Connacht titles | 3 | ||
Football | Hurling | ||
All-Ireland titles | 1 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
1967 - 1981 | Sligo | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Connacht titles | 1 | ||
All Stars | 1 |
Barnes Murphy (born in Sligo, Ireland), is a former
Murphy also enjoyed success at club level, winning five county championships (with Craomh Rua and St Mary's), five League medals (also with Craomh Rua and St Mary's), three Connacht club championships and, an All-Ireland 7s.[2] He also won Junior titles with St John's after the new club was formed when the old Sligo borough boundaries were further divided. To date, Murphy along with Mickey Kearins[3] are Sligo's most decorated and successful footballers ever.[citation needed]
Murphy lives in his native Sligo where he is still involved in club football. Barnes is featured in The Best of the West: GAA Greats of Connacht, a book by John Scally that features GAA's best players from the west of Ireland.[4] Mickey Kearins & Eamon O'Hara are also featured.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Murphy, Barnes - HoganStand".
- ^ "St Mary's". stmarys.sligo.gaa.ie. Archived from the original on 19 October 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "Cumann na mBunscol, Co. Shligigh".
- ^ "John Scally". Archived from the original on 7 January 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ "St Mary's". Archived from the original on 19 October 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
External links
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- http://www.hoganstand.com/Sligo/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=26256
- http://www.sligogaa.ie/ArticleDetail.aspx?articleid=4575
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080513155323/http://www.westsligo.com/castleconnor/sport.htm
- https://web.archive.org/web/20091001055714/http://www.castleconnor.sligo.gaa.ie/photogallery.html
- http://www.vodafone.ie/download?id=FOOTBALLALLSTARS
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090804175030/http://www.gaa.ulsterbank.com/teamprofiles.html/sligo
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110629103633/http://archives.tcm.ie/sligoweekender/2002/07/11/story8501.asp
- http://homepage.eircom.net/~stokanens/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090915174003/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2007/0708/sligo.html
- http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2007/0804/1186123301689.html
- http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaa-championships/orsquohara-keeps-on-reaching-for-stars-1791596.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110107054522/http://roscommonhistory.ie/Misc/Arts/Literature/scally.htm