Connie Murphy (Gaelic footballer)

{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer, selector and manager}}

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| code= Football

| sport = Gaelic football

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| name = Connie Murphy

| irish = Conchur Ó Murchú

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| occupation = Retired Garda Síochána{{cite news|url=http://www.mainevalleypost.com/2022/10/04/connie-murphy-bows-out-after-31-years-service-to-an-garda-siochana/|title=Connie Murphy Bows Out after 31 Years Service to An Garda Síochána|date=4 October 2022|publisher=The Maine Valley Post|accessdate=25 November 2022|first=|last=}}

| county = Kerry

| province = Munster

| club = Dr Crokes

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| clcounty = 2

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| clallireland = 1

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| counties = Kerry

| icposition = Centre-back

| icyears = 1987–1995

| icapps(points) = 15 (1–02)

| icprovince = 1

| icallireland = 0

| nfl = 0

| allstars = 1

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| birth_date = 1965

| birth_place= Killarney,
County Kerry, Ireland

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Cornelius Murphy (born 1965) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Dr Crokes club and at inter-county level with the Kerry senior football team.

He is a rare Kerry All Star who never won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/james-odonoghues-talent-shone-bright-when-his-body-didnt-betray-him-41278542.html|title=James O'Donoghue's talent shone bright when his body didn't betray him|date=25 January 2022|work=Irish Independent|accessdate=26 January 2022|quote=In 2013, he won his first All-Star and would tell a story about how not long after the ceremony he was at a table quiz where he inadvertently found himself as part of the answer to a question: 'Name the two Kerry players who have won an All-Star but no All-Ireland?' Connie Murphy was one. O'Donoghue quickly figured out that he was the other.}}

Playing career

Murphy first played Gaelic football at juvenile and underage levels with the Dr Crokes club in Killarney. He won a Kerry U21FC title in 1986. By that stage Murphy had also joined the club's top adult team, having won a Kerry IFC title in 1985. He later won two Munster SCFC titles and was man of the match when Dr Crokes beat Thomas Davis in the 1992 All-Ireland club final.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/crokes-hero-expecting-a-repeat-of-92-fairytale-26270854.html|title=Crokes hero expecting a repeat of '92 fairytale|date=16 March 2007|publisher=Irish Independent|accessdate=25 November 2022|first=|last=}} Murphy's club career ended shortly after winning a second Kerry SFC medal in 2000.{{cite news|url=https://www.the42.ie/colm-cooper-dr-crokes-kerry-3329834-Apr2017/|title=The greatest, a leader, intelligence - the Dr Crokes insight after Cooper's Kerry retirement|date=9 April 2017|publisher=The 42|accessdate=25 November 2022|first=|last=}}

Murphy first appeared on the inter-county scene for Kerry as a member of the minor team in 1983. He later spent a year with the under-21 team, however, his underage career ended without success. Murphy made his senior team debut during the 1987–88 league, however, his career coincided with a relatively fallow period in terms of success.{{cite news|url=https://www.balls.ie/gaa/great-team-bad-era-123317|title=Balls Remembers... Kerry: The Lost Years 1987-1996|date=27 August 2022|publisher=balls.ie|accessdate=25 November 2022|first=|last=}} In spite of this, he was selected on the All-Star team in 1989 and won a Munster SFC medal in 1991.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/sport/gaa/all-star-connie-murphy-says-kerry-players-can-only-find-success-from-within-themselves-40124903.html|title=All Star Connie Murphy says Kerry players can only find success from within themselves|date=24 February 2021|publisher=The Kerryman|accessdate=25 November 2022|first=|last=}}

Management career

Murphy was appointed manager of the Kerry junior football team in 2002. His two-year tenure in charge saw the team win consecutive Munster JFC titles, however, Kerry lost the 2002 All-Ireland junior final to Wicklow.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/ogorman-ends-wicklows-66-year-famine-26036743.html|title=O'Gorman ends Wicklow's 66-year famine|date=5 August 2002|publisher=Irish Independent|accessdate=25 November 2022|first=|last=}}