Former Shelbourne player survived fall from train speeding at 145kmph, inquest

A former League of Ireland footballer who survived a fall from a speeding train died thirty years later, an inquest has heard. 

Father of two Joseph Murphy (57) was residing at St Glady’s Nursing Home, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6 for the final four years of his life. Previously, he lived a full and independent life despite suffering a catastrophic injury that left him in a coma for five months in 1986.

An electrician by trade, Mr Murphy was offered contract work in the UK where he was invited to play football with a club as part of the deal. In September 1986 he was travelling on an overcrowded train with three companions on the Holyhead to London Express when the accident happened.