Family succeeds in securing posthumous medal for IRA Volunteer who died on same day as Terence MacSwiney

A long-running campaign to get a posthumous medal for an IRA Volunteer has finally come to a successful conclusion.

Joe Murphy, whose story is little known outside of Cork, died on hunger strike in Cork Gaol on the same day, October 25, 1920, as Terence MacSwiney, then Lord Mayor of Cork, who also died from hunger strike, but in Brixton Prison.