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Joe Murphy

Sat, 10 Dec, 2011 - 00:00

Sue Leonard

When Murphy was 19, he ruptured his spleen during a football match. Finishing the match, he didn’t notice, until three days later when he collapsed and his heart stopped.

“That happened in 1998, the bicentenary of the 1798 rising,” he explains.

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