Youthful Offaly in good health, says Dr Murphy

IF there’s one man on the current Offaly team who knows about perseverance, it’s midfielder/forward Brendan Murphy — Dr Brendan Murphy, currently doing his GP training in Portlaoise.

“I did a science degree first, but decided I wanted to do medicine; didn’t have the points for that so I went back and repeated my Leaving Cert in the middle of that degree.

“I got offers to go to England alright to do medicine over there with the points I had, but I wanted to do it in Ireland — a few other lads I know have done the same thing since then, Paul Ormonde (former Tipperary corner-back), he went back and did veterinary.”