Mayor pays tribute to a great Cork ‘character’

BERNIE MURPHY, one of Cork’s great “characters” who rocked the political establishment with his election to the city council in 1985, died at the weekend.

Mayor pays tribute to a great Cork ‘character’
Mon, 24 Sep, 2007 - 01:00
Eoin English and Sean O’Riordan

He was 72.

Mr Murphy died at Marymount Hospice on Saturday night after a long battle with illness.

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