Eoin Murphy: ‘You want to win as much as you can’

There are conveniences to Eoin Murphy’s work and hurling balance: For one, nobody on the panel has a day job closer to Nowlan Park than the Kilkenny goalkeeper. A sales executive with Michael Lyng Motors on Hebron Rd, his office is 1km away.

But not everything is so seamless. He wouldn’t go as far as describing it as a nuisance, but like Limerick’s Nickie Quaid with Effin, he operates out the field for his club Glenmore. So well in fact, he as a midfielder has been the outfit’s top scorer with 6-28 in their capturing of the Kilkenny junior crown and run to a Leinster final.

Due to bad weather, the game against Lusmagh of Offaly is set to be rescheduled for January, days before Kilkenny return from their team vacation in Thailand. It means the break will be as much a busman’s holiday for Ger Aylward and himself as anything else.