Defeat hard to take for Murphy

THE sunshine streamed in the Burlington Hotel yesterday morning but for Diarmuid Murphy the fine weather did little to brighten his mood.

Twenty-four hours after succumbing to Tyrone in Sunday’s terrific All-Ireland final, the numbing sense of defeat remained with the Kerry goalkeeper.

“It’s always disappointing to lose an All-Ireland. You’d have to go back through it again on the tape just to see what it was like but my initial reaction to that was that it was maybe a little bit different than 2005 in that we could have done a bit better.”