Drink binge ‘dare’ ends in death of UCC student celebrating hurling win
Talented hurler Gary Murphy, aged 19, from Grantstown, Co Waterford had been drinking beer and neat vodka before he drained a quarter of a litre of vodka in one slug after friends bet that he could not do it.
The student was celebrating an under-21 hurling champion win with friends at a party in the Victoria Mills complex at Victoria Cross in Cork on December 6. There were up to 12 male students in the flat when a drinking game involving a deck of cards got under way, some time after 10pm, Cork Coroner’s Court heard.
