‘An All-Ireland final is like your wedding day. It’s over before you know it’

The ramifications from one cuppa.

“I got chatting with himself (Derek McGrath) and Dan (Shanahan) then. He was kind of messing at one stage saying, ‘You’d look nice with a bib on you’, but he didn’t make any approach. It was actually around two weeks after that he approached me.”

Murphy discussed it with his wife Leona. It wasn’t the first time they had a loaded hurling debate around the kitchen table. Murphy might have crossed your radar back in 2011, when he fractured his skull in a club game: “I more or less blocked down a fella with my head. I got in a bit early and I flicked the ball away as he was turning and I was trying to get out of the way but he kept coming with his pull and I took the full force of it.