Over 1,000 pay last respects to ‘genial’ judge

MORE than 1,000 people packed a church in Co Cork yesterday to pay their last respects to a Circuit Court judge who was described as “a friend to everybody” and “a true man of the people.”

Judge Con Murphy died suddenly last Monday morning in the Bon Secours Hospital, aged 51.

The esteem he was held in could also be measured by the huge numbers who also turned up to his removal in Bandon the previous night. The removal was supposed to have reached the local parish church at 8.30pm but didn’t arrive until 11.40pm, such was the crowd which turned up to console his family.