VIDEO: Jimmy Barry Murphy lights up Cork City for Christmas

After lighting up hurling and football pitches across the country in his heyday, GAA legend Jimmy Barry Murphy used his magical touch to switch on the Christmas lights in Cork City last night.

The crowd who gathered for the event were also given an early Christmas present thanks to the weather.

With the heavy showers and gale-force winds of days earlier thankfully staying away, almost twice as many people attended (8,000) the ceremony in St Patrick’s St compared to last year (4,500).